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Going strong: Visit to Northampton led Kanoujia family to open Indian House 40 years ago
11-07-2024 3:23 PM

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — In 1984, Omprakash Kanoujia was living in Cambridge when he drove out to Northampton and fell in love with the city.He loved it so much that he bought a vacant storefront on State Street that August, and two months later opened India...

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Northampton fire crews contain brush fire in Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area, work to put out blaze that swept through 52 acres
11-03-2024 11:16 AM

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — A brush fire that began late Friday afternoon burned through 52 acres in the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area over the weekend, but fire crews announced Sunday that a fire line established Saturday successfully contained the fire. In a...


River Valley Co-op members overwhelmingly say no to boycott of Israeli products
10-31-2024 5:04 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — After months of emotional debate surrounding a proposed boycott of Israeli goods at River Valley Co-op, the results of an advisory poll among co-op members show overwhelming opposition to the “Apartheid-Free River Valley Co-op”...


Northampton celebrates start of construction of six pickleball courts at Ray Ellerbrook Field
10-30-2024 1:53 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city broke ground on what will soon be six new pickleball courts at Ray Ellerbrook Field, much to the delight of players of the tennis-like sport that has rapidly grown in popularity over the last several years.The city held a...


Tombstone, bones stop work at Florence construction site
10-18-2024 3:22 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — A construction crew unearthed an unexpected discovery while digging at a work site in Florence: an old tombstone, and near it, bones. Workers at the site quickly called the Police Department to investigate what they had found...


Defense challenges key witness in Steven Malloy murder case
10-17-2024 5:49 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The defense attorney for Steven Malloy, a Northampton man on trial for first-degree murder, spent part of Thursday morning attempting to poke holes in the prosecution’s version of events regarding the killing of Joseph Fillio in December...


Key witness describes accused murderer Malloy shooting victim dead at close range
10-16-2024 6:32 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A key witness for the prosecution in the case of Steven Malloy, who is on trial for murder in the killing of Joseph Fillio, testified that he saw Malloy pull the trigger after pointing a gun at Fillio’s temple, and that Malloy later told...


To mark 30th, Paradise City Arts Festival enlists public help on piece that will soon hang in City Hall
10-15-2024 2:09 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — In celebrating their 30th anniversary with an art show titled “Fables & Folklore: Reframing the Classics,” the Paradise City Arts Festival unveiled a legend of their own last weekend.Jenny Lind, a Swedish opera singer from the 19th...


Honoring heritage and a hero: Pulaski Parade capped by wreath-laying at memorial to Revolutionary leader
10-14-2024 4:38 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Stanley Fil was born in 1921 in Hadley, the town he has lived in all his life, to parents who originally immigrated from Poland in 1909. Eight years after Fil’s birth, Northampton named a one-acre park in its central downtown Pulaski...


Justices in action: Supreme Judicial Court holds Hampshire County session for Smith Voc, UMass students
10-11-2024 5:52 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Students from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School and from UMass Amherst got to see the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices in action on Friday, as the court held a special sitting at Hampshire County Superior Court...


Fresh start for familiar restaurant: Former Taipei and Tokyo reopens in Northampton as Taipei Hibachi
10-10-2024 1:53 PM

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — Tucked on the steep hill of Crafts Avenue across from City Hall downtown, Taipei Hibachi is trying to make a new name for itself.Inside the newly opened hibachi restaurant, a renovated open floor plan invites customers to a counter...


School cellphone solutions: From locked pouches to bans, high schools are keeping mobile use out of classrooms
10-04-2024 5:33 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

As students file out of Hampshire Regional High School at the end of the day, they have to make a quick stop at one of the many magnets mounted near the exits. These magnets serve as the “keys” to the Yondr pouches their cellphones remain locked in...


Goodbye to tobacco forever?: Northampton floats new rules that call for generational prohibition on sale of all products
09-27-2024 3:22 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — The city is poised to build on already tough regulations governing the sale of tobacco products if the Board of Health moves ahead with a proposal calling for a generational prohibition of tobacco products. The idea, which advocates have...


Front lines of veteran support: First responders, others learn tips on how to help at VA conference
09-26-2024 5:28 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — Research by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that about 6% of Americans, and about 7% of military veterans, will experience PTSD in their lifetime, while veterans with higher combat exposure are three times as likely to...


Northampton man admits to killing roommate, pleads guilty to second-degree murder
09-25-2024 4:58 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — A city man originally facing a first-degree murder charge for the killing of his roommate in 2022 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in an emotional court proceeding Wednesday afternoon in Hampshire Superior Court.Devin R. Bryden,...


Lula’s great escape: Pet tortoise walks out of enclosure in Northampton only to be found two weeks later a few feet away
09-25-2024 3:42 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NORTHAMPTON — Fearful of the experience of losing a pet, Reba Goldin chose to adopt a tortoise as a teenager because the animals are known to live to be over 100 years old.She says this made it all the more devastating when her tortoise, Lula, went...


Westfield man faces manslaughter charge in death of South Hadley woman
09-24-2024 3:27 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — A Westfield man pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to charges of manslaughter and tampering with evidence for his alleged role in the overdose death of a South Hadley woman in May. Christopher Halla, 42, allegedly sold the 57-year-old...


Adventures with Captain Ahab: 3-foot garden gnome packs powerful message for Smith Vocational students
09-24-2024 2:37 PM

By Naomi Scully-Bristol

NORTHAMPTON — Not many garden gnomes have gone skydiving, climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, and been the best man at a wedding, but it is all in a day’s work for Captain Ahab, a wooden fisherman who travels the world.Geeg Wiles, who is from...


Old nursing home gets new life: Northampton, state officials celebrate Prospect Place groundbreaking
09-18-2024 6:43 PM

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...


Protesters target L3Harris in Northampton over nuclear weapons
09-18-2024 6:00 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — “Peaceful” and “theatrical” is how organizer Timmon Wallis described the latest demonstration against what he described as an “eyesore” in the city.About a dozen of the almost 50 demonstrators on hand late Tuesday afternoon at the...


DoozyDo parade steps off Saturday
09-17-2024 11:49 AM

By Naomi Scully-Bristol

NORTHAMPTON — A whimsical celebration of community, the DoozyDo parade returns this Saturday for the third year running with fun costumes, marching bands, and Gertrude, the gargoyle mascot.“It’s about bringing people together, and celebrating...

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