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By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — Thousands are expected to visit Main Street downtown on Saturday for a day of food and live music at Taste of Northampton, an annual festival that celebrates the city’s businesses and restaurants.The event, which returned in 2022 after a...

By ALEXA LEWIS

For eight months, Northampton did not have a permanent police chief. In August, the city hired interim chief and longtime department member John Cartledge to lead the department, who was chosen from a pool of just four candidates. Similarly, Amherst...

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

Two months before the launch of a new electricity service in Northampton, Amherst and Pelham called Valley Green Energy, officials in the three municipalities are gearing up to hold three information sessions to outline the new program for residents...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — City officials are heralding a new partnership with one of the region’s leading social service agencies as a key development for the future success of a long-held vision to open a Resilience Hub downtown.The city recently announced that...

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s Department of Public Works announced Thursday that it was implementing nonessential water use restrictions, effective immediately, for users of the Northampton public water supply. Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., washing buildings,...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON— Dozens of spectators filed into the bright red cylinder of the motordrome, eager to see what daredevil Hobo Bill calls “the greatest show on wood” on Labor Day, the final day of the Three County Fair. Children and adults looked on with...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — School may be starting, but a heaping dose of summer fun is still waiting around the corner as the Three County Fair prepares to return for its 207th year on Friday. Bringing food, fun and Ferris wheel rides to the Valley once more, the...

By Staff Report

Saying that its responsibility as a grocer “goes far beyond our aisles,” Stop & Shop will stop selling all cigarettes and tobacco products at its 360 stores on Saturday, including stores in Northampton, Hadley, Belchertown and two in Holyoke.The...

By ALEXA LEWIS

Everyone falls prey to the feeling of loneliness from time to time but few — whether they are 80 or 18 — realize just how detrimental persistent loneliness can be to their mental and physical health.While U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy garnered...

By JIM DANKO

SPRINGFIELD — When he’s teaching theater or English at Springfield Technical Community College, professor Phil O’Donoghue draws from his own experience as a student who struggled with a learning disability and battled anxiety in the classroom....

By SAM FERLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Patrons can rest assured they will feel toasty in the morning for breakfast or lunch following the opening of a new restaurant in the location where a popular former restaurant used to operate.Toasted, the name of the new restaurant...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

FLORENCE — Bob Cellucci had a problem. The chair of the homeowners association for houses on Cardinal Way in Florence, Cellucci realized one of the street’s detention ponds, used to collect stormwater runoff following heavy rains to prevent flooding...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Bike riders in the Pioneer Valley are once again able to use the ValleyBike Share system, with transportation stations reopening from Amherst to Springfield after being shut down for more than a year.The city of Northampton held a grand...

By CHAD CAIN

NORTHAMPTON — A busy commercial spot at one of the gateways to the city, vacant since the spring of 2023, will soon be home to a cafe retail building and 10 electric vehicle charging stations covered by a solar canopy.Plans for the 5 Fulton Ave. site...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — A $3 million Proposition 2½ general budget override scheduled for November for the school district is likely to be rescinded after the city received an unexpected jolt of money at the end of the last fiscal year from local tax receipts...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The new coffee and chocolate shop on the corner of Main and Old South streets appears as a minimalist, trendy coffee shop, but there’s magic hiding in plain sight that requires a bit of investigation to discover.A sneaky sword mounted to...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — New and improved technology is on its way to Smith College thanks to a $555,232 state Workforce Development Capital Grant that seeks to prepare more students for careers in the life sciences and other STEM fields.The college’s Clark...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — By order of the mayor, the city has officially closed the Connecticut River Greenway Conservation Area until further notice, citing an ongoing problem of unauthorized motorized boat access, unpermitted large gatherings and illegal...

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON/EASTHAMPTON — When Casey Flaherty started working at Nourish Wellness Cafe in 2019, she said she instantly “fell in love” with the cafe’s mission to provide the community with healthy, locally-sourced organic food. Five years later, she...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Long in the planning stages, a new electricity service in Northampton, Amherst and Pelham is set to launch this fall in what officials promise will mean more affordable and renewable electricity for residents.The three communities inked a deal with...