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Last week’ s vandalism of the bronze owl sculpture on Main Street in Northampton struck a deep nerve in a community that values public art in many forms. The attack left an emotional scar as well as physical damage to a memorial for Eva Trager and...

By EMILY LAUFER

On June 5, I came home from a long day at work to a letter stuffed in between my doors from the Northampton Housing Authority (NHA).The letter, titled “Removal of Furniture or Items in Common Areas,” instructed all Hampshire Heights Residents to...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Here’s a prime example of how to turn a marketing class project into a job.This spring, Sierra Myers, a Northampton native, created a new Instagram account for Thornes Marketplace as part of a group project for a Greenfield Community...

By Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — Demonstrations to raise awareness of sexual harassment continued Friday at JFK Middle School. As about 100 seventh-graders walked to Look Park for a school trip, about 10 in the group held signs with messages like “Our bodies, our...

By NYSSA KRUSE

NORTHAMPTON — More than 30 students held a sit-in Thursday morning at JFK Middle School to raise awareness about sexual harassment they say students have experienced from their peers.Those involved said participants — boys and girls — sat in a hallway...

By Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — Matt Grimaldi, a graduate of Northampton High School’s class of 2017, read encyclopedias for fun as a child.Years later, as a high school student, he put this eclectic knowledge to use as a member of the school’s Quiz Bowl team, which...

NHA board chairmanresponds to tenant issues I am writing to respond to some of the points made in the article on Hampshire Heights (“Tenants irked by NHA crackdown on outside items, gardens,” June 20).To start, the Northampton Housing Authority...

NORTHAMPTON — A water main break that interrupted service on Audubon, River and Reservoir roads this morning has been repaired. All water service has been restored.Leeds residents should flush their cold water systems, said Donna LaScaleia, director...

By REBECCA MULLEN

NORTHAMPTON — Erin Samson’s condo sits on a corner lot at the Hampshire Heights public housing development.Like all the homes at Hampshire Heights, Samson’s has a covered front porch and an expanse of grass that leads out of her back door down to a...

As communities confront the opioid epidemic in their homes, on the streets and in treatment centers, a new program aims to widen the prevention effort to middle schools through a public-private partnership.Attorney General Maura Healey this month...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — An event coordinated by  Hampshire HOPE and the Northwestern district attorney’s office aimed to offer just that: hope in the fight against the opioid crisis.And that’s exactly what it did for Deb McNeice, who said she was devastated...

By NYSSA KRUSE

The Valley Community Development Corp. will host a community block party, its first, from 1-4 p.m. Sunday on the old courthouse lawn in Northampton, 99 Main St.Tenants of Valley CDC properties can enter a raffle for a free month’s rent, but they must...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON – A Belchertown man accused of striking and killing another man who was waiting at an Amherst bus stop in November denied numerous charges Friday in Hampshire Superior Court.Peter Sheremeta, 20, pleaded not guilty to charges including...

By LISA SPEAR

A Japanese maple tree with windswept branches leans to one side as if hanging off a mountain cliff —  but this tree has never seen high altitudes and the air here is mostly still.The tree lives in Jim Gipe’s backyard in Northampton in a shallow...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Sonia Wilk was polite but frazzled. She hadn’t slept well in days. On Wednesday afternoon, she walked her bike down Conz Street, gripping a weathered stack of leaflets.She rolled her bicycle into the Fairfield Inn & Suites parking lot,...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Prosecutors never alleged that New Hampshire resident Jesse Carrillo intended to kill fellow University of Massachusetts student Eric Sinacori with the heroin he supplied. They didn’t allege he was selling the drug for personal...

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 EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — An early morning assault of a cab driver ended in the arrest of a Huntington man and an injured Northampton police officer.Police received a call around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday from a cab driver who said a passenger pulled a knife on him on...

Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — As preschool students ran around the gym inside Sunnyside early child care center Tuesday afternoon, they were trailed by special visitors: board members of the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.The group stopped by...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Police received another report of a naked man touching himself on the streets of Northampton early Tuesday.The report described a naked man, just after 12:10 a.m., lying on top of short brick wall in front of Bacon & Wilson attorneys’...