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NORTHAMPTON — Months of vague threats by Donald Trump’s administration against sanctuary cities like Northampton and Amherst just evolved into something more specific.U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that police departments would...

By AMANDA DRANE

Retired Easthampton firefighter Bill Simmons lobbied Massachusetts legislators in the 1970s for policies to help colleagues exposed to carcinogens on the job. Some 25 years later, he got cancer.He battled the disease for four years and endured eight...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Habitual downtown parkers likely know the city stops enforcing pay-to-park spaces at 6 p.m., but how easy is it for visitors to glean that information? That question sent one man on a mission last week. Bill Pharmer, who accidentally...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — A slow trickle of residents has so far taken the first step toward candidacy in the city election in November. Joining the familiar cast are two new faces: Bob Driscoll for city clerk, and Susan Voss for School Committee member...

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NORTHAMPTON — Mansour Ghalibaf says city pipes couldn’t handle what the Fairfield Inn & Suites had to offer, so he spent $500,000 building an underground drainage system for the building. Still, he pays more than $2,000 a year to the city in...

By AMANDA DRANE

HADLEY — Amid all the back and forth over the direction of the Hampshire Council of Governments, there’s one point everyone seems to agree on: the structure of the agency is flawed, and it needs another legislative look.“It’s not designed properly,”...

By AMANDA DRANE

EASTHAMPTON — Bill Hobbie said the unconditional love canines offer is worth emulating.That’s why each year for the past five years he’s given to the Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund “in loving memory” of his late dog, Ozzie.“He brought so much joy and...