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By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The outlook of an ongoing city project is getting clearer as the Mount Tom North Trailhead Park nears completion.Since the fall of 2021, the city has been constructing a trail system and recreation area on a 23-acre parcel of land off...

By BRIAN STEELE

“Every child is entitled to be loved, cared for, secure, and protected from verbal, sexual, emotional and physical abuse, exploitation and neglect.” So begins Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle’s proclamation recognizing April as National Child Abuse...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A shuttered Main Street restaurant that beckoned national attention has reopened its doors under a new name.Three former employees of Coco and The Cellar Bar and two area restaurateurs have relaunched the 95 Main St. hot spot under the...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Residents who live in six Easthampton Housing Authority properties will soon decide whether to form a tenants organization to represent them — a move that, if successful, would be the first such organization formed since the housing...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Four men have been arrested in connection with an alleged Easthampton cocaine distribution ring.After receiving a number of complaints of suspected “narcotics activity” at 11 Chapman Ave., Easthampton Police detectives launched a formal...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Cannabis consumers have access to another adult-use retail shop on Northampton Street as Fyre Ants has officially opened its doors in a former car dealership.The city’s fifth cannabis retailer to open for business marked the occasion...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The morning announcement may have indicated that it was school day 75, but when middle school students returned from their holiday break on Wednesday morning, many admitted that it felt more like the first day of school. And students...

By FRAN RYAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the world tries to combat global climate change and find workable clean alternatives to energy production, a small Easthampton company says it has a patented new way of creating electricity, one that could revolutionize how power is...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

EASTHAMPTON — The state’s highest court has ruled to uphold the first-degree murder conviction of an Easthampton man who killed his girlfriend in 2012.The Supreme Judicial Court, or SJC, on Friday denied the request of Ryan Welch — convicted in 2014...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

EASTHAMPTON — More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the scene in downtown Easthampton has left some business owners optimistic for the area’s future, though others have been hit by industry-specific hardships or left behind empty...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

EASTHAMPTON — Once a controversial project in Easthampton beset by delays and unanticipated expenses, the city’s fish ladder, which allows fish to pass through the dam on the Manhan River off Northampton Street, quietly entered its seventh season in...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

SPRINGFIELD — A former Easthampton attorney who admitted to defrauding clients, commercial lenders and an investment firm over the last several years was ordered by a judge Friday to forfeit more than $2 million, pay $2.6 million in restitution and...

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — Two city residents say they have been harassed for their positions on A Knee Is Not Enough (AKINE), a community organization calling for reforms to policing in the city.Jason Montgomery withdrew his name from consideration for...

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — For more than four decades, a star shining over the city from Mount Tom has been a holiday tradition. Now, as residents deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the star is again lighting up the night in a gesture meant to spark and...

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — As the number of cars for sale continues to dwindle at its soon-to-close dealership off busy Northampton Street, Cernak Buick’s longtime owner wistfully remembers a time years ago when there were six new car dealers in the city.Now, more...

By FRAN RYAN

EASTHAMPTON — Two years after opening its first facility in Hadley, Wagging Tails Pet Resort, a dog day care, boarding, grooming and training shop, is opening a second location at the former Heritage Farm at 30 Florence Road in Easthampton.Owner...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A moratorium on adding new natural gas customers in Northampton and Easthampton will continue indefinitely following a decision by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts to abandon a project aimed at increasing the pipeline capacity for both...

By GRETA JOCHEM

EASTHAMPTON — Fifty years ago, freelance artist and designer Arnold Skolnick got a request: Make a poster for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.For Skolnick, the request was “just another job,” though neither he nor the event organizers had any idea how...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

EASTHAMPTON — The city Planning Board is expected to review an application for a three-story apartment building on Cottage Street next week, which would modify plans for a similar proposal already approved by the board for the site in 2017.The new...

By LUIS FIELDMAN 

EASTHAMPTON — On a typical day, around 4 p.m., Richard Lavalle could be found at the Brass Cat sitting at a table next to a window looking down Cottage Street with his favorite beer in hand, a Budweiser.He would either be playing cribbage with a...