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By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Seven years after entering the political spotlight as a member of the Easthampton City Council, Homar Gomez on Thursday officially launched a bid for state representative for the 2nd Hampshire District.“My family, the community, my...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The city has launched an Ad Hoc Senior Center Building Committee that will meet for the next year before a future building committee is formed to advance plans for a new senior center. The ad hoc committee will review collected material...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After a somewhat hectic start to the first formal meeting of the Northampton City Council, Ward 5 councilor Alex Jarrett narrowly emerged as the new council president, with Ward 7’s Rachel Maiore joining him as vice president.Jarrett and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The Easthampton School Committee turned a new leaf on Tuesday as members were sworn into office for a new term, with those serving for the next two years looking to put behind them a tumultuous year in which two of its members quit...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s legislative leaders for the next two years are now officially in service, after a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday that featured new faces and experienced officials take the oath of office.The inauguration ceremony held at the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — One new park will be constructed and another rehabbed in the New City neighborhood after the City Council approved spending for several Community Preservation Act projects last week. Another project included in the combined $1 million...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opponents of the current redesign plan for the Picture Main Street project have unveiled an alternative vision for what Northampton’s Main Street should look like, in hopes the city changes its mind before construction officially takes...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A pair of current city councilors — Marissa Elkins and Garrick Perry — swept aside two challengers in Tuesday’s municipal election to capture the at-large positions on the City Council, based on unofficial results. Elkins, an at-large...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — While the makeup of City Council will remain largely the same going into the next term, voters on Tuesday elected two new faces to the council: Jason “JT” Tirrell for at-large councilor and Tamara Smith for Precinct 5.This year’s...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With a budget override looming for Northampton, spending and money dominated a significant portion of the conversation at a Wednesday forum featuring the four candidates running for two at-large positions on the City Council.Candidates...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – In the only contested City Council race at next Tuesday’s municipal election, a former city councilor and a former candidate for the council will face off to fill the Precinct 5 seat currently held by Dan Rist, the longtime city...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council on Thursday unveiled a resolution in support of the city’s Picture Main Street redesign, aiming to assure residents of the benefits the project will bring to the city despite anxieties over the three-year, $21 million...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

HOLYOKE — Three candidates for the open Holyoke Ward 7 City Council seat will compete in a preliminary election Tuesday to determine which two contenders advance to the November general election.Eileen Brady Leahy, Meagan Magrath-Smith and Steve N....

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council will look familiar to residents next term, as eight of the nine councilors up for reelection in November are running unopposed.The sole contested race will occur in Precinct 5, where two residents will square off to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Two incumbents in the upcoming municipal elections in November will have their names on the ballot after all, after the city clerk’s office reversed its position on their eligibility.Marissa Elkins, one of the city’s two current...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The race for six seats on the School Committee in November’s election is heating up in the wake of last spring’s failed permanent superintendent search and surrounding controversy. Ten candidates, including four incumbents, have pulled...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — After months of revision and debate, the City Council officially struck down an ordinance around reproductive and gender-affirming care at its meeting Wednesday when supporters could not muster enough votes to override a mayoral veto.The...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — After a contentious public hearing Wednesday evening that ended in the City Council passing a pregnancy center ordinance, Mayor Nicole LaChapelle vetoed the measure Thursday afternoon.First introduced nine months ago and revised...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed ordinance that one councilor estimates having spent more than 300 hours researching and holding discussions with reproductive and gender-affirming advocates over the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra is set to receive a $37,500 pay increase in her annual salary next year, after a vote to increase the mayor’s salary was unanimously approved by the City Council Thursday night.The move to increase the mayor’s...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council approved a $52.2 million budget for next fiscal year Wednesday night, but not before council members engaged in significant discussion on the importance of maintaining specific programming in the city’s...