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First Night turns 40: Northampton’s New Year’s Eve celebration takes all year to plan
First Night Northampton, the city’s annual New Year’s Eve festival, will return this year on Tuesday, Dec. 31, from noon to midnight, celebrating its 40th anniversary.The event will feature, as always, fireworks (at 6:15 p.m., to give children a...
Tractors raring to go for Southampton farming sisters ready for Florence Lighted Tractor Pull on Saturday
SOUTHAMPTON — Saturday’s Lighted Tractor Parade is expected to be “largest event in Florence of the year,” and the “largest gathering in the Florence since Florence Night Out was last featured in 2022,” according to Florence Civic and Business...
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High school roundup: Frontier girls roll past Franklin Tech; Holyoke boys sink Longmeadow on buzzer beater
Four players secured double-digit point totals for the Frontier girls basketball team in its 82-28 win against Franklin Tech on Friday.Skyler Steele (18 points), Jazzy Hayes (13 points), Olivia Machon (11 points) and Whitney Campbell (10 points) led...
Opinion
Guest columnist Sara Elkins: Northampton must protect federal funds from clawbacks
I am writing out of great concern for keeping President Joe Biden’s many large grants to our city safe from incoming president Donald Trump’s legal clawbacks. He has already voiced his plans before even taking office that he will try to claw back...
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Business
Area property deed transfers, Dec. 27
AMHERSTNigel H Coxe RET and Edmund Jones to Meghan Macfadden and Oliver Macfadden, 147 E. Hadley Road, $425,000 Phatcharee Tran to James E. Sarris, 27 Greenleaves Dr., Lot 722, $300,000 Mimsy Cove LLC to Benjamin W. Strom and...
Arts & Life
Can’t take that away from me: With Jan. 20 on the horizon, the Queer Joy Collaborative sings, dances and fights for its life
Glitter. Sparkle. Bedazzle. Shine.When Mara Levi and Nova Wehman-Brown started dreaming of a Winter Ball, these four words came to mind. The executive director and the board president of the Queer Joy Collaborative wanted their inaugural event to be...
Obituaries
Randall "Randy" Wilburn Belchertown, MA - Randall "Randy" Keith Wilburn, 81, of Belchertown, MA passed away at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 surrounded by the love of his family. Randy was lovin... remainder of obit for Randall Wilburn
Hatfield, MA - Kathy McCannon, 66, passed away peacefully on December 7 after navigating challenging health conditions. Born on April 22, 1958 in Plainfield, NJ, to Leslie and Harriet Kimball, Kathy was raised in Pelham, MA and graduat... remainder of obit for Kathy L. McCannon
Westfield/Easthampton, MA - Phyllis Virginia Pombal, of Easthampton, Massachusetts, passed away on Monday, December 23, 2024 at Vantage Health & Rehab of Westfield. Phyllis was born on November 22, 1929, to Mary and Walter Deptula of ... remainder of obit for Phyllis Pombal
Amherst, MA - Nancy Ruth (Underwood) Johnson, 94, passed away early morning on December 23, 2024, at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst. She was born October 6, 1930, in Hadley MA, to the late Linn and Ruth (Smith) Underwood. S... remainder of obit for Nancy R. Johnson