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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Daily Hampshire Gazette earned Newspaper of the Year in its circulation class at a New England Newspaper and Press Association awards ceremony held in Providence, Rhode Island over the weekend.Taking the top prize for the six...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A longtime pledge by State Auditor Diana DiZoglio to audit the state Legislature, contending this will provide more transparency and accountability to legislative proceedings, is coming before voters at the November election, after she was unable to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Five years ago, Sara Lamountain-Costigan was living in an apartment in Easthampton with her husband, Tim, and their four children. But the family aspired to someday live somewhere they could call their own. “We always hoped to have a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Even before she arrived at the Northwestern district attorney’s office in 2019, Erin Aiello had a history of helping animals.In 2016, as an attorney in private practice, she represented a local chapter of the American Society for the...

By RICHARD FEIN

Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization, started the current Gaza war with its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. It killed about 1,200 unarmed people, raped women, killed children in the presence of their parents. Given that Hamas’ goal is to...

A recent guest columnist believes Northampton city planners don’t “pay attention to walkability, and the infrastructure and budget needed to support it,” especially in her neighborhood. But I live in her neighborhood, close to downtown, and disagree.I...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Citing hundreds of bills filed across the country perceived as targeting transgender individuals, the Northampton City Council on Thursday introduced a resolution to declare the city a “sanctuary city” for transgender and gender-diverse...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After a tumultuous budget season for its school district, Northampton city officials are stepping up efforts to try to get more state funding for the district. A resolution before the City Council on Thursday calls for state to...

By THE REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” That quotation is from the Bible (Book of James, chapter 2, verse 26), but one need not be Christian to agree with it. Having philosophical or political beliefs is one...

By KATE QUEENEY

Over a year ago I wrote about how Northampton’s approach to road safety results in multiple people being injured (or killed) while we await fixes to known problems. Sadly, that piece was prescient. On Dec. 14, 2023, a year and one week after I was...

I am a big believer about trying not to complain about things that I have not been involved in the process of, or have been part of before final decisions are being made. I, and my husband, love our city of Northampton in which we were both born, grew...

By BOB FLAHERTY

In our 60-year obsession with the Beatles, the group’s women have always played a compelling part. Ringo’s long-lasting marriage to “Caveman” co-star Barbara Bach; the George/Pattie Boyd/Eric Clapton triangle; Paul’s heart-tugging romance with Linda...

By CAROLYN BROWN

After more than two decades at Smith College, a beloved music professor will say goodbye to Northampton with a farewell concert at the Iron Horse next week. Professor Steve Waksman, who has taught at Smith for 23 years, will complete his last semester...

By LAURIE LOISEL

Editor’s note: The Gazette is publishing short essays over the next several weeks to mark National Good Neighbor Day on Sept. 28. Have a story about good neighbors in your lives? Send your submission of 500 words or less to...

The failures of our current system of health insurance have led to the growth of primary care practices providing concierge care. Recently my wife received notice that her primary care physician in Northampton was changing her practice to concierge...

By CAROLYN BROWN

Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie — his first in over a decade — is a passion project he’s been working on for 40 years. Even more exciting? An actress from Northampton is in it.Caroline Bloom will make her most prestigious screen credit to date in...

By CAROLYN BROWN

The Northampton Center for the Arts recently announced the appointment of Kelly Silliman and Heather Geoffrey as its new co-directors.Silliman, a dancer and educator, was program director at the Center since 2017, prior to stepping into her new role....

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

Northampton’s purchase of the old First Baptist Church in June 2023 for $3.175 million, twice its market value at the time according to a privately funded independent reappraisal, was a huge blunder. The concept of a “resilience hub” as a day drop-in...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

On Saturday, Hopkins Academy alum and Worcester Polytechnic Institute defensive lineman Ryan Antes tallied five tackles, a tackle for loss, a sack and a blocked field goal.Come Monday morning, he was back to work. And not just on the football field.In...

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...