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By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — About five years ago, Perry Cohen moved to Northampton with his family. “We basically moved to Northampton because it was so queer,” he said. “What an amazing place.”But, he found his family was driving to Providence and Boston to get...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — Over the summer, Will Swyers and Ximena Salmerón, both actors, were looking for a new project. Something bold, they said. But it wasn’t an acting endeavor they turned to.They ended up taking over downtown cafe Iconica Social Club, “which...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan — consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — A small crowd gathered on Ladd Avenue Tuesday afternoon to welcome a new occupant to the neighborhood’s empty, former gun-manufacturing facility: a marijuana cultivator.“It has been years in the making,” said Charlotte Hanna, founder of...
NORTHAMPTON — Familiar exit numbers on Interstate 91 will begin being replaced by exit numbers based on mileage starting Wednesday.The highway corridor that runs between Connecticut and Vermont will be the final highway in the state to get the new...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — Rue Walther moved to the Bay State Village neighborhood in 2004, drawn to it in part because she could afford it. She bought an 840-square-foot home for $185,000.She knew her next-door neighbor had a large lot, but when it was sold, she...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON —About 200 people gathered outside JFK Middle School on Wednesday, some holding signs in support of Principal Desmond Caldwell or with messages like “Hate has no home in our school,” and “yes there is racism here.” Several high school...
By DAN CROWLEY
NORTHAMPTON — A city man was arraigned and pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Hampshire Superior Court to 13 counts of possession of child pornography in connection with a police raid at his Bridge Road home in September.Philip H. Brocklesby, 58, was...
By Julia Cornick
Suzanne Forman sometimes pinches herself these days — not literally, of course — when she thinks about the sliver of the premium dark chocolate she makes and sells out of her Northampton home.“Am I really making chocolate for a living?” she asks...
By BERA DUNAU
NORTHAMPTON — After more than a decade of the topic being in the public eye, the School Committee voted Thursday night to push back the time the school day starts for high school students.“Every School Committee who’s faced this issue has agreed...
By CHRIS GOUDREAU
NORTHAMPTON — After close to three decades of bringing live summer theater productions to the Pioneer Valley, New Century Theatre announced Monday that it’s curtain call for good because of the persistent COVID-19 pandemic. In a written notice posted...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — Before this year, Benjamin Maddison said he had never been pulled over by the Northampton Police Department. But during the first two months of 2020, he said, he was pulled over three times.In addition to filing complaints against...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — A Granby man answered in court last week to numerous allegations of child sexual abuse, including the aggravated statutory rape of a child.Steven C. Trznadel, 35, pleaded not guilty on Nov. 3 in Hampshire Superior Court to 11 sex crimes,...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — Two and a half years after Daniel Cruz was fatally shot at Meadowbrook Apartments and his body set ablaze in a field in Hatfield, his killer, Nerkin Omar Morales, was sentenced to 15 to 20 years in state prison Tuesday.Morales, 24,...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — A Florence man was ordered held without bail last week on an attempted murder charge after he allegedly strangled a family member who ended up in a hospital trauma unit.Cody M. Malone, 25, was charged with attempted murder, strangulation...
By BERA DUNAU
NORTHAMPTON — The theft of a Northampton activist’s lawn sign has stirred up a firestorm online centering on ethics, free speech and race.Billy Park noticed June 6 that a lawn sign he had displayed in his front yard on Crescent Street — depicting a...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
EASTHAMPTON — Andrew David Morini, a former Northampton Fire Rescue firefighter who retired last year after over 22 years on the force, died June 7 in Southampton. He was 49.“No matter who you were, he treated everyone the same — he treated everyone...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Tim Jacques, Simon LeClair, Tobias L’Esperance and Ben Howe huddled around a table at the McDonald’s on King Street in Northampton.They heard on Wednesday that New Balance Indoor Nationals was canceled and met Thursday to formulate a plan. The...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — A city man was sentenced to seven to eight years in state prison Friday after he admitted covering up the killing of Daniel Cruz by helping to burn his body after he was killed at Meadowbrook Apartments in 2018.Pedro Soto-Rodriguez, 22,...
By MICHAEL CONNORS
NORTHAMPTON — For John F. Heaps Jr., president and CEO of Florence Bank, giving back to the community and providing good customer service isn’t just an expectation.“It’s our responsibility,” he said.Since he started in his position in 1995, Heaps, 71,...
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