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By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — After some three hours of drilling, grinding and cutting Thursday afternoon, police were able to free four anti-war protesters who had blocked the gates at L3Harris by securing themselves to a pickup truck filled with concrete. The four...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Four anti-war activists secured to a pickup truck blocked the shipping and receiving gate at L3Harris, Thursday morning, to protest the company’s role in Israel’s assault on Gaza.Police responded to remove the activists and some 20...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Hampshire Regional YMCA marked the grand inauguration of its airnasium on Wednesday, the first YMCA in the Northeast to do so. The new 2,250-square-foot outdoor gymnasium, features exercise bikes, weight racks and a roof to protect...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Several years ago, Heidi Weeks made the decision go into business with her business partner Tim Fisk, who runs Salon Herdis in Northampton. The two had the idea of opening up a boutique shop in Greenfield, where Weeks was living.“Between...

By Alexa Lewis

Transhealth’s new CEO Joan Erwin understands how critical gender-affirming care is in today’s political climate, and said she’s ready to guide the health care center into the future.Erwin, previously Transhealth’s chief operating officer, has a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Sunday marked a turning point in the lives of Northampton High School’s class of 2024, the day they would finish their lives as high school students and move on out into the world to start their post-secondary life. For some, it was a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — One by one they came to the podium in City Council chambers — or they zoomed in online — with a straightforward message for councilors: Save the city’s school system from cuts in next year’s budget.Among them was Janis Totty, a retired...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When the state’s Department of Agricultural Resources commissioner Ashley Randle took the podium at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School’s football stadium in front of a crowd of hundreds of parents and families Thursday...

By Alexa Lewis

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is warning people to limit their fish intake from the Oxbow in Northampton and Easthampton, or to not consume any fish from the pond if they have certain health conditions.According to a fish consumption...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Protesters angered by Israel’s most recent deadly attack in Gaza brought a metal trash can and an American flag to the sidewalk outside Rep. Jim McGovern’s Pleasant Street office on Tuesday.As passersby honked in support or shouted...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — After 15 years leading the congregation at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, the Rev. Janet Bush will retire at the end of July.Looking back on her time as a minister, Bush said a highlight had been the experience of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NOTHAMPTON — Susan Loen still has the dozens of letters her eldest brother Kenneth Johnson wrote home from Vietnam to his parents and five siblings.Some of the letters contained short funny tidbits, like Johnson wearing out the back of his pants and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Friday, May 17, marks 20 years since Gina and Heidi Nortonsmith were married, although the couple is quick to clarify that their real anniversary dates back to more than a decade before that.The two women met at a conference for LGBTQ...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — As the deadline for Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra to a submit a budget proposal for the city draws near, an entrenched battle over the city’s public school budget is coming to a head.The Northampton School Committee defied the mayor’s...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Above the rows of shelves at Northampton Wools, amid all of the yarn of different colors, materials and thickness that fill every cubby in sight, sits a famous sweater worn by Charlize Theron in the Academy Award-winning film “The Cider...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Raised into activism and grassroots organizing, Marisol Pierce Bonifaz cites two key events that, for her, served as calls to action: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s dismissive response to youth activists pushing for the Green New Deal, and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After nearly a year of inactivity, the ValleyBike Share program is poised to roll again throughout the Pioneer Valley.After Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra teased an announcement regarding ValleyBike on Monday, the city announced Thursday it...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The partnership between HEC Academy and Western Massachusetts Rabbit Rescue began when a non-verbal student wanted to get involved with the community.Many of the volunteer opportunities offered by the therapeutic public day school for...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — For Francisca Kan, the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War could be felt even as a young child.Kan was born into a Jewish family in Hilversum, the Netherlands, in the year 1937. Her father ran a successful bicycle factory,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — An emotionally intense meeting Thursday over the school budget for the city schools ended with the School Committee bucking the recommendations of the mayor and superintendent and approving at least a 14% increase in spending next year.A...