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By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — A construction crew unearthed an unexpected discovery while digging at a work site in Florence: an old tombstone, and near it, bones. Workers at the site quickly called the Police Department to investigate what they had found...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — After months of emotional debate surrounding a proposed boycott of Israeli goods at River Valley Co-op, the results of an advisory poll among co-op members show overwhelming opposition to the “Apartheid-Free River Valley Co-op”...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The city broke ground on what will soon be six new pickleball courts at Ray Ellerbrook Field, much to the delight of players of the tennis-like sport that has rapidly grown in popularity over the last several years.The city held a...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The defense attorney for Steven Malloy, a Northampton man on trial for first-degree murder, spent part of Thursday morning attempting to poke holes in the prosecution’s version of events regarding the killing of Joseph Fillio in December...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — A key witness for the prosecution in the case of Steven Malloy, who is on trial for murder in the killing of Joseph Fillio, testified that he saw Malloy pull the trigger after pointing a gun at Fillio’s temple, and that Malloy later told...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — In celebrating their 30th anniversary with an art show titled “Fables & Folklore: Reframing the Classics,” the Paradise City Arts Festival unveiled a legend of their own last weekend.Jenny Lind, a Swedish opera singer from the 19th...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Stanley Fil was born in 1921 in Hadley, the town he has lived in all his life, to parents who originally immigrated from Poland in 1909. Eight years after Fil’s birth, Northampton named a one-acre park in its central downtown Pulaski...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Students from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School and from UMass Amherst got to see the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices in action on Friday, as the court held a special sitting at Hampshire County Superior Court...
By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL
NORTHAMPTON — Tucked on the steep hill of Crafts Avenue across from City Hall downtown, Taipei Hibachi is trying to make a new name for itself.Inside the newly opened hibachi restaurant, a renovated open floor plan invites customers to a counter...
By ALEXA LEWIS
As students file out of Hampshire Regional High School at the end of the day, they have to make a quick stop at one of the many magnets mounted near the exits. These magnets serve as the “keys” to the Yondr pouches their cellphones remain locked in...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — The city is poised to build on already tough regulations governing the sale of tobacco products if the Board of Health moves ahead with a proposal calling for a generational prohibition of tobacco products. The idea, which advocates have...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Research by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that about 6% of Americans, and about 7% of military veterans, will experience PTSD in their lifetime, while veterans with higher combat exposure are three times as likely to...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — A city man originally facing a first-degree murder charge for the killing of his roommate in 2022 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in an emotional court proceeding Wednesday afternoon in Hampshire Superior Court.Devin R. Bryden,...
By ADA DENENFELD KELLY
NORTHAMPTON — Fearful of the experience of losing a pet, Reba Goldin chose to adopt a tortoise as a teenager because the animals are known to live to be over 100 years old.She says this made it all the more devastating when her tortoise, Lula, went...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — A Westfield man pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to charges of manslaughter and tampering with evidence for his alleged role in the overdose death of a South Hadley woman in May. Christopher Halla, 42, allegedly sold the 57-year-old...
By Naomi Scully-Bristol
NORTHAMPTON — Not many garden gnomes have gone skydiving, climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, and been the best man at a wedding, but it is all in a day’s work for Captain Ahab, a wooden fisherman who travels the world.Geeg Wiles, who is from...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Multiple members of Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s cabinet visited Northampton on Wednesday to mark the groundbreaking of a planned affordable homes project at Prospect Place, the former nursing home at 737 Bridge Road that has fallen...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — “Peaceful” and “theatrical” is how organizer Timmon Wallis described the latest demonstration against what he described as an “eyesore” in the city.About a dozen of the almost 50 demonstrators on hand late Tuesday afternoon at the...
By Naomi Scully-Bristol
NORTHAMPTON — A whimsical celebration of community, the DoozyDo parade returns this Saturday for the third year running with fun costumes, marching bands, and Gertrude, the gargoyle mascot.“It’s about bringing people together, and celebrating...
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