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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’...

Kudos to the Easthampton Police Department for its addition of Gino, a 17-month-old Belgian Malinois, and to Officer Andrew Beaulieu for rearranging his life to handle the department’s latest crime-stopper.The new K-9 unit paid off quickly when Gino,...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton High School’s senior class president Matti Tacy spent much of her commencement speech Sunday talking about the class of 2017’s accomplishments: There were Nickolas Smith and Patrick Quinlan, who won All-American status in...

Praises Smith Charities for aid to widows This letter is so long overdue but no less heartfelt. What Smith Charities does for widows in local communities is remarkable.Many have children and some do not. We all share a common bond: picking up the...

By NYSSA KRUSE

NORTHAMPTON — Even as planning for a permanent parklet in Crackerbarrel Alley has been prolonged due to noise concerns, a new miniature park opened Wednesday afternoon around the corner.Em and Fitzpatrick Withenbury entered into a partnership with the...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Forget Pokémon cards, or whatever children are trading these days. The newest craze could be trading cards featuring Northampton cops.On Tuesday, Police Chief Jody Kasper announced a new trading card initiative designed to strengthen...

By AMANDA DRANE and NYSSA KRUSE

NORTHAMPTON — Abused or lost animals of all kinds may soon have a new place to sleep as Northampton plans to build an animal control kennel after years of depending on other groups to house such critters.The kennel is slated to cost $395,000, and...

By REBECCA MULLEN

Mark Dansereau sees his new position as head of the Montessori School of Northampton as a homecoming.“It’s familiar turf,” he said of western Massachusetts. “Northampton and the surrounding area is a real special place.” A Massachusetts native,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

NORTHAMPTON — Trouble appeared imminent in the second inning for Anna Kerwood and the Northampton softball team.Westfield had the bases loaded with one out in the Western Massachusetts Division 1 quarterfinals and Kerwood had already allowed a home...