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By MORGAN HUGHES

NORTHAMPTON — More than 15,000 people celebrated cannabis at the 26th annual Extravaganja on Saturday, the first time the event has been held since Massachusetts voted to legalize the weed.In years past, the event has served as a political rally for...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A jury in a child rape trial will resume deliberations Monday after twice telling a Hampshire Superior Court judge Thursday they could not reach a consensus.The 12-member jury spent the entire day in deliberations on the case of a former...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke woman is being held on $100,000 for her alleged involvement in two separate murder-for-hire plots.Cynthia P. Coons, 50, pleaded not guilty in Northampton District Court Thursday morning to a charge of conspiracy in the first...

By MOLLY CLANCY

NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton girls lacrosse team suffered its first loss of the season Wednesday night.An 11-5 loss to Agawam snapped an eight-game winning streak to open the season and came in its Valley Wheel opener.Abby Baldwin opened the scoring...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Election papers became available Monday in the city clerk’s office, and candidates new and old began to emerge.Mayor David Narkewicz took out papers for a third term, and Roy Martin took out papers for a ninth — and, he says, final —...

NORTHAMPTON — Wearing black and holding Armenian flags, about 60 people silently marched through downtown to Memorial Hall Monday afternoon in recognition of the Armenian genocide that some fear has gone unnoticed throughout much of the world for...

By JACK SUNTRUP

FLORENCE — Members of the Broad Brook Coalition on Sunday afternoon celebrated improvements to the 850-acre Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area, with sunny, clear skies as a backdrop.The improvements — a new bridge leading to trails, a raised boardwalk...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Authorities have attributed the start of a bevy of recent fires to smoking materials, but almost all cigarettes are designed to self-extinguish, as per a long-standing state law.It doesn’t always work.A fire that heavily damaged a...

Many aided Historic Northampton’s successMany thanks for your April 12 editorial praising the progress Historic Northampton has made over the last several years (“Future stable for Historic Northampton”).Everyone in Northampton should be grateful to...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON – Extravaganja will be an adult affair this year as organizers make it an 18-plus event in the face of concerns from the city.Just after 5 p.m. Friday, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cannabis Reform Coalition posted a statement on...

By GAZETTE STAFF

NORTHAMPTON — City police successfully located the owner of what likely is a mixed-breed dog found wandering the area Thursday afternoon.Officials said the dog, probably a partial Pomeranian, was picked up on Prospect Street. Though it had no...

By MORGAN HUGHES

NORTHAMPTON — A 14-year-old budding activist is at it again, planning on hoofing it for clean water this weekend.Saraphina Forman, a student at The Academy at Charlemont, organized her third annual Hike For What’s Right event at Mineral Hills...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — When scientists talk dire impacts of climate change in say 2050, or 2100, the far-away dates can be hard to put into perspective. For Peter Ives, the problem does not seem so distant. He thinks of his 2-year-old granddaughter Ila. “I...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Mansour Ghalibaf says city pipes couldn’t handle what the Fairfield Inn & Suites had to offer, so he spent $500,000 building an underground drainage system for the building. Still, he pays more than $2,000 a year to the city in...

By DERRICK PERKINS

NORTHAMPTON — “Champ” the squirrel didn’t go down without a fight.Estimated at several weeks old, Champ was found Sunday by a friend of Jordana Starr, 32, who co-owns Beerology on Pleasant Street with her husband. The critter was in the mouth of the...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — The School Committee ratified several contracts last week, including an unusual contract extension for Superintendent John Provost.Superintendents typically sign on for three years at a time, but the committee approved a five-year...

By DERRICK PERKINS

NORTHAMPTON — Flames billowed from the third-floor porch of a wooden, multi-unit building near the heart of downtown as neighbors watched firefighters from across the region battle a three-alarm blaze Tuesday morning.Crews from Northampton,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Emmy-nominated for her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix original television series “Orange is the New Black,” Laverne Cox exudes a confidence that allows her to shout out “trans is beautiful.” “I’m really happy to be here tonight as...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — When friends asked legendary Northampton activist Frances Crowe what she wanted for her 98th birthday on March 15, her answer surprised no one.“She kind of said, ‘We need to march and rally, we have to take to the streets,’” her friend...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — With various appointments by President Donald Trump still not made and continued reversals and flip flops in the administration’s objectives, a sense of chaos and drama exists in the nation’s capital that Massachusetts congressmen...