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NORTHAMPTON — A project to remake Northampton’s downtown Main Street will not begin construction for at least another year, much to the delight of the project’s critics, who want the city to reevaluate the planned design.
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The administration of President Donald Trump continues to target transgender individuals through a string of executive orders, with a more recent order likely to not just affect individuals but educational and athletic institutions in Massachusetts.
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SPRINGFIELD — Although he’s conducting his postdoctoral research at a university famed for its activism, Andrew Kennard never found himself participating in any political protests. But the new administration of President Donald Trump has changed that.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra provided a review of the city’s finances for the first half of the current fiscal year on Thursday, amid concerns over rising property values, school staffing cuts and an uncertain future with regards to federal funding.
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NORTHAMPTON — The view out the window of a corner apartment above 92 Maple St. in Florence includes many of the landmark businesses any prospective resident there would have easy access to. Beneath the apartment lies the A-1 Pizza House and The Zen Frog cafe, with Tandem Bagel and the Miss Florence Diner mere footsteps away.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — With local elections more than nine months away, a challenger to a City Council seat has already announced their candidacy.
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NORTHAMPTON — After nearly six months of searching, Cooley Dickinson Hospital has found a new president.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — State legislators representing Hampshire and Franklin counties signaled that they were prepared to defend protections for immigrants, the environment and transgender people in Massachusetts as the new federal administration under President Donald Trump moves to limit or scrap them.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
The retirement of longtime Hatfield Department of Public Works Director Phil Genovese this month came days after members of the town Select Board became aware of Genovese’s arrest in a sting operation for allegedly trying to pay for sex.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
Grow Food Northampton has announced that Michael Skillicorn has been made co-executive director, joining existing Executive Director Alisa Klein in leading the community garden and sustainable food nonprofit.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — More than a year and a half after it initially planned to close, the Coca-Cola bottling plant on Industrial Drive will remain open through 2025, though its future in the city remains uncertain.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The City Council will hold a special virtual meeting Wednesday to try and pass six financial orders relating to the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, after Ward 3 Councilor Quaverly Rothenberg raised a charter objection at the previous council meeting last Thursday that delayed a vote.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — A new building code kicks in citywide next Monday that effectively bans the use of fossil fuels in any new buildings or renovations of existing structures in Northampton.
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HOLYOKE — For Shannon Rudder, the theme of civil rights in the year 2025 could be summed up with a Curtis Mayfield song: “Keep on Pushing.”
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
The announcement of a proposed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has drawn a wide array of reactions from local organizations, activists and politicians in the Pioneer Valley and the commonwealth, many of whom have been protesting or closely following the events since the war’s beginning in October 2023.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
CHESTERFIELD — Not many 20-year-olds aspire to launch their own nonprofit to support businesses in a developing nation. But then Forrest McSweeney isn’t like most 20-year-olds.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The director of Head Start and early learning programs in the city is joining the School Committee as Ward 2’s representative.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
A new bill signed by Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday will ban the practice of declawing cats in Massachusetts, a victory for animal rights activists who view declawing as inhumane.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — It’s safe to say Ruth Griggs was a little unsettled when she looked at her latest property tax bill.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The Center for Ecological Technology (CET) in Florence has launched a Carbon Conscious Business Accreditation program to encourage businesses to reduce their carbon footprint, handing out its first accreditation to fellow Florence organization the Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity.
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