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The number of calls to Northampton Fire Rescue has nearly doubled over the last decade, leading the city to expand department staffing in next year’s fiscal budget, which begins July 1.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Less than week before the City Council is expected to vote on the city’s fiscal 2026 budget, Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra has secured an additional $217,000 for the school district, with funds planned to be used to restore two high school teacher positions as well as an elementary school gardening program.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Willow Vandoloski stares into the phone camera, a solemn expression on her face as she recounts the story of her brother’s death.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city on Thursday closed a portion of the sidewalk in its central downtown after engineering consultants found that the section posed “an immediate risk of collapse.”

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Ever since moving to Florence 18 years ago, JoJo Howlett has had only one choice for where she fills her car with gas — the Citgo gas station in the village’s center, owned by Bob Gougeon and his family.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra has called for a public debate between her and the other two mayoral candidates in this year’s municipal election, proposing multiple public forums to be held before preliminary elections in September.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

About $1 million in funding has been included for regional organizations, school districts and first responders across Hampshire County and the city of Holyoke by members of the Massachusetts State Senate representing the region in the chamber’s version of next year’s budget.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Count the city among those advocating for universal health care in the state of Massachusetts.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council on Thursday postponed a vote on the $145 million city budget for the 2026 fiscal year, in the hopes of avoiding the more contentious budget process that took place the previous year.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Anyone planning an overnight road trip through Northampton within the next week should begin preparations to take a detour.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — At a parent’s home by the Montview Conservation Area, Brant Jones gathers the group of 14 high school students who have assembled that morning before they embark on their planned four-day adventure.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has maintained a previous court injunction that blocked the Trump administration from enacting significant layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education, part of a lawsuit whose plaintiffs include the Easthampton School Committee.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HADLEY — Workers at the Hadley Barnes & Noble approved their first-ever union contract on Monday, capping off nearly two years of negotiating efforts with the national bookstore chain.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Dave Dombrowski’s decision to run for mayor has been one that’s been six years in the making.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Summer has yet to officially begin, but municipal elections in the city continue to heat up as 28 candidates have already pulled nomination papers to run for positions on the City Council or School Committee.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Efforts by the Northampton Department of Health and Human Services to restrict the sale of nitrous oxide in the city — a measure that’s set to go into effect in two weeks — began with a single email.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Speaking before a packed auditorium of parents, teachers and her fellow high school graduates, Giselle Ohm succinctly summed up the complicated feelings many Northampton High School students experience when they leave home to begin the next stage of their lives.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON – Gazing out into the crowd of hundreds of people who had crowded the football field at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, Michael Cahillane couldn’t help but reflect on the progress the school has made since his time there decades ago.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

To many lay people, the world of tech seems like something almost mythical: a world of innate genius, absurd wealth and complex mathematical algorithms that make the idea of entering the field seem almost impenetrable to those without the talent, the education or the privilege. 

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The phone has been ringing constantly at Cornucopia Wellness Market in the last few days, with loyal longtime customers asking about the situation at the health food store that’s become an institution in Thornes Marketplace and in the city.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — For Georgianna Brunton, the true mark of a good business isn’t so much the products it sells as it is the story it tells. And few places in Florence can tell as many stories as A-1 Pizza.