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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After successfully unseating longtime incumbent David Murphy as elector for the Oliver Smith Will in the 2021 municipal election, Mary Odgers this year held off a challenge from Murphy to hold onto her position in the latest municipal...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In addition to at-large positions on the City Council and School Committee, voters in Tuesday’s election also decided races for the council’s Ward 3 seat and School Committee’s Ward 4 seat.Michael Stein, the incumbent Ward 4 committee...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Select Board has set the special election date for a Proposition 2½ debt-exclusion vote to decide if the town should move forward with authorizing up to $5 million in borrowing authority to pay for road repairs following July...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two incumbent School Committee members will be joined by three newcomers following Tuesday’s town election, according to unofficial results from the town clerk’s office.Incumbent member Irv Rhodes earned the most votes at the election,...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — January brings a new era for the School Committee, whose six members elected Tuesday will seek to turn the page after a controversial spring in which two members quit over the handling of a failed superintendent hire. Voters on Election...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Five members of the Town Council who have served continuously since it was seated in fall 2018 fended off challenges at Tuesday’s town election, according to unofficial results from the town clerk’s office.Both Lynn Griesemer and Pat De...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — At Tuesday’s election, voters voiced their support for multi-winner ranked-choice voting in future city elections, in a nonbinding ballot question that received 1,721 votes in favor and 1,066 votes against.Multi-winner ranked-choice...

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 Scott Merzbach, Maddie Fabian and Alexander MacDougall

Voters in three Hampshire County towns face key decisions for the future of their legislative branches on Tuesday, when Amherst, Northampton and Easthampton hold municipal elections to select new councilors, school committee members, library trustees...

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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Elimination of MCAS testing, declining enrollment and the school budget were some of the topics discussed by candidates for the Northampton School Committee’s at-large seats during a forum held Wednesday night at John F. Kennedy Middle...

By Sophie Hauck

WILLIAMSBURG — Three candidates for Williamsburg Select Board will go toe-to-toe Saturday in a special election to fill one vacant seat on the three-person panel. Richard Kisloski, Patrick Sumner and Paul Wetzel are running to fill the vacancy left...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — With the Nov. 7 city election just around the corner, the next City Council will face a number of issues, and one of those concerns at the top of many voters’ minds is affordable housing.With a $30.4 million pitch by a Needham developer,...

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 — Saying that the city operates best with fresh leaders who bring new ideas, Mayor Nicole LaChapelle announced Tuesday that she will step aside when her term ends in 2025. “I decided in 2018 when I took office that I was going to be...

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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — As the deadlien nears to turn in nomination papers for this fall’s biennial municipal election, several new candidates appear poised to throw their hat in the ring for various City Council and School Committee positions, along with the...