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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — Armed with coffee, donuts, paintbrushes and power washers, volunteers from around Northampton gathered in the parking lot behind Thornes Marketplace on a recent Saturday morning with a clean-up mission in mind.Among those who gave up...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Inside a greenhouse at Grow Food Northampton’s community farm, a variety of crops have been put up for display, with placards posted by each one explaining its cultural and historical significance, with some even containing QR codes for...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — Election years often make apparent the most divisive aspects of politics and partisanship. For Dave Roitman, it’s important to keep in mind that democracy is a perpetual work in progress, and one that requires meaningful collaboration...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Walking downtown you might catch a glimpse of Broadside Bookshop’s front windows displaying artifacts collected over their past 50 years in operation. Once inside, you’ll find a store encapsulating the progressive, artsy vibe of Paradise...