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A Look Back, Jan. 29
01-29-2025 7:01 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

In a massive shakeup at the University of Massachusetts School of Education, Dean Dwight Allen has resigned, and Associate Dean Atron Gentry has been fired, the Gazette learned today. The resignation and dismissal come in the wake of several weeks of reports that funds at the School of Education may have been spent on purposes other than those for which they were intended.

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New website will document life of Lucy Terry Prince, the earliest identified African American writer
02-03-2025 1:16 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association has begun a multiyear effort to bring to life a project exploring the experiences of Lucy Terry Prince, the earliest identified African American writer. The work began last Saturday on the first day of Black History Month.


A home with Strong character: 1768 Southampton house for sale was built by historic mill owner Ichabod Strong
01-17-2025 9:50 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

One of the most prosperous individuals in early Southampton was Ichabod Strong, who dammed the Manhan River and established a sawmill there in the early 1730s; that mill complex, once known as the Strong’s Mills complex, now part of the Lockville Historic District. Strong, who was described in a genealogy book as “a man of stirring business qualities of character” and “best of all, a remarkably godly man,” also built four farmhouses in the area, which his sons and grandsons inherited. One of those farmhouses, part of the National Register of Historic Places, is on the market right now.


A Look Back, Jan. 3
01-02-2025 11:01 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton National Bank became the first in the city to sell gold bullion to the public, following new regulations that allow United States citizens to own gold bullion for the first time in more than 30 years.■Ryback’s Pastry...


A Look Back, Jan. 2
01-02-2025 6:00 AM

50 Years Ago■W. T. Grant Co., the giant retail chain, plans to close 66 unprofitable stores between February and July as a cost-cutting measure, the company said Friday. The Grant stores in Northampton and Easthampton will not be among those closed, a...


A Look Back, Jan. 1
01-01-2025 6:00 AM

50 Years Ago■For Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Gay of 472 North King St., their new daughter Jill was not just another bundle of joy. Her birth as the first baby in the New Year locally will mean that the Gays will receive hundreds of dollars of gifts donated...


A Look Back, Dec. 31
12-31-2024 6:01 AM

50 Years Ago■Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary is offering an alternative to sending used Christmas trees to the landfill where they take up needed disposal space. Instead, the sanctuary requests that residents recycle their trees by bringing them to Arcadia...


A Look Back, Dec. 26
12-25-2024 11:01 PM

50 Years Ago ■Officials at Northampton State Hospital are still in the dark today as to whether seven foreign-trained physicians who have not passed the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates test will continue to be allowed to work here...


A Look Back, Dec. 23
12-22-2024 11:01 AM

50 Years Ago■By 8:30 this morning more than 100 people were lined up, stretching around Pleasant and Armory Streets, waiting to sign up for unemployment checks. These were some of the 2,000 Hampshire County workers who have been temporarily or...


A Look Back, Dec. 16
12-16-2024 6:00 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Demonstrating students at Hampshire College, a phenomenon long absent from the valley, forced the adjournment Saturday of a semi-annual college board of trustees meeting. The 120 demonstrators said they want more student control in the...


A Look Back, Dec. 4
12-04-2024 6:00 AM

50 Years Ago■State Department of Natural Resources officials today confirmed reports that DNR Commissioner Arthur W. Brownell has turned down all sites he has viewed in...


A Look Back, Dec. 3
12-03-2024 6:00 AM

50 Years Ago■Donald Graham of Nonotuck Street, Florence, has been named Newspaper Boy of the Month. Don, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Graham, has been in the news delivering business for four years. He has 36 customers along Nonotuck, New Street and...


A Look Back, Nov. 28
11-28-2024 6:01 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The new 16-member Pleasant-River Urban Development Steering Committee will determine proposals and guidelines in the city’s urban renewal project which will shape for many years “the character and quality of life” of Northampton’s...


A Look Back, Nov. 18
11-18-2024 6:01 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Reports of a general rise in the amount of vandalism against businesses and public buildings in Hampshire County appear to be unfounded, according to a Gazette survey. With some notable exceptions, most of the law enforcement and town...


Ashfield Historic Museum curator adding Indigenous exhibits to decolonize collection
11-08-2024 10:29 AM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

About a year into her tenure as the new Ashfield Historical Museum curator, Sky Suslov is making good progress on her goal of decolonizing the museum.In addition to the mock general store storefront, along with artifacts from wars throughout...


A Look Back, Oct. 24
10-24-2024 6:00 AM

50 Years Ago■Converting Northampton High School from a three-year to a four-year high school, as the Northampton School Committee recommended last night, is likely to be a good change, according to high school principal John J. Feeney. “Any secondary...


A Look Back, Oct. 23
10-23-2024 6:01 AM

50 Years Ago■Converting Northampton High School from a three-year to a four-year high school, as the Northampton School Committee recommended last night, is likely to be a good change, according to high school principal John J. Feeney. “Any secondary...


A Look Back, Oct. 22
10-22-2024 6:00 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton School Committee last night voted to support a school building program that will change the structure of education in the city by converting the high school to a four-year school and add middle schools in place of present...


A Look Back, Oct. 21
10-21-2024 6:00 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Members of Providence United Methodist Church in Easthampton voted decisively in favor of merging with the First United Methodist Church of Northampton on Sunday. Details of the merger will be worked out by the two churches. The...


Going to bat for history: In reviving reputation of Negro League stars, baseball superfan sees America’s past through the lens of the game
10-20-2024 4:01 PM

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

NORTHAMPTON — Packed in a small room in the upstairs of a Northampton house, millions of words reside.About 2,500 books, to be exact — and they’re all about baseball. Biographies, statistical annuals, magazines, instructional manuals, encyclopedias...


A Look Back, Oct. 19
10-19-2024 6:01 AM

200 Years Ago ■Apple Tree Nursery! E. Hunt has for sale in Northampton two hundred apple trees comprising the following kinds: Greenings, Royals, Roxbury Russettings, Summer and Winter Pearmains, Baldwin, Newtown Pippins, Seek-No-Furthers, Golden...

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