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By SAMUEL GELINAS

FLORENCE — According to Vietnam War veteran Russ Warriner, the keynote speaker at Monday’s Veterans Day parade, “Veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they’ve suffered the scars of war.”The Williamsburg native, who joked that...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Police arrested a 65-year-old Florence man on Sunday for allegedly shooting and wounding a woman at her home, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office. The woman, who is 50, was shot in the stomach and was treated for non-life...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton City Council has approved a resolution that endorses an embargo on U.S. arms to Israel in an act of protest against the war in Gaza, although only after the inclusion of a single word during its second reading.The...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...