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By BERA DUNAU
NORTHAMPTON — Last year India House won the lottery — for a liquor license, a coveted item for many downtown restaurants.“It was like, did it really happen?” said Alka Kanoujia, who owns the restaurant with her husband Omprakash Kanoujia.Now, the...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN and GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — When it comes to investigating its own, the Northampton Police Department rarely disciplines an officer who is named in a civilian complaint. When a superior officer or fellow Northampton officer files an internal complaint, however,...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — Tributes are pouring in to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Marty Nathan, a retired physician and trailblazing social justice activist who died Monday at the age of 70.Nathan’s daughter Leah Nathan said her mother died after a...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — Superior Court Judge Richard Carey granted bail to murder defendant Cara Rintala on Tuesday, about a month after the state’s highest court overturned the 54-year-old’s 2016 conviction for the murder of her wife in Granby.At a hearing...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — The city has hired an “implementation director” to begin the process of creating a department that is meant to provide an alternative, civilian response to situations currently handled by police officers.Mayor David Narkewicz announced...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — Every time that David Murphy faced a challenge to his tenure as Elector Under the Oliver Smith Will, his opponent received nine votes or less. That is, until Mary “Mimi” Odgers unseated Murphy in Tuesday’s city election with 3,278 votes...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Friday to stealing $16,794 worth of batteries from 13 Big Y stores in four Massachusetts counties.Brian Caldwell, 49, of Windham, New Hampshire, was sentenced in Hampshire Superior Court to two years...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Positioned between the stall with miniature horses and the reptile experience, a few alpacas received plenty of attention from families visiting the Baby Barnyard barn at the Three County Fair Sunday morning.“Lots of people want to know...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — Following an attack in Pulaski Park that left a man with head injuries, the city is taking steps to enforce ordinances against sleeping and storing personal possessions at the downtown public park overnight.On Tuesday, the city announced...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — City and state officials are seeking more information from Coca-Cola after the beverage giant announced that it would close the bottling plant at 45 Industrial Drive in summer 2023, leaving its 319 employees to find new jobs.“We’re...
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — The Roundhouse municipal parking lot is fully fenced off as workers prepare to expand and repave it, while less than 50 feet away still sits the homeless tent encampment that Mayor David Narkewicz wanted vacated by Thursday.MASS-WEST...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — Smith College knew two decades ago that a faculty member had been accused of sexually abusing a minor, but chose not to act on those allegations, allowing him to teach at the college until recently.On Wednesday morning, the Roman...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — The state is canceling a controversial roundabout project on North King and Hatfield streets amid opposition over the project’s impact on an archaeological site where evidence of an ancient indigenous village was discovered.In an...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — When Roy Martin announced he was running for mayor in 2017, it was his ninth — and at the time he said his last — bid for the corner office at City Hall. His name never made it onto the ballot that year. But this spring, he took out...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — The phones were buzzing on a recent weekday morning at Highway Auto Salvage, where employees answered questions about car parts in English and Spanish.An expansive sign hanging on the back wall of the small sales office listed the wares...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — About five years ago, Perry Cohen moved to Northampton with his family. “We basically moved to Northampton because it was so queer,” he said. “What an amazing place.”But, he found his family was driving to Providence and Boston to get...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — Over the summer, Will Swyers and Ximena Salmerón, both actors, were looking for a new project. Something bold, they said. But it wasn’t an acting endeavor they turned to.They ended up taking over downtown cafe Iconica Social Club, “which...
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON — Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan — consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
NORTHAMPTON — A small crowd gathered on Ladd Avenue Tuesday afternoon to welcome a new occupant to the neighborhood’s empty, former gun-manufacturing facility: a marijuana cultivator.“It has been years in the making,” said Charlotte Hanna, founder of...
NORTHAMPTON — Familiar exit numbers on Interstate 91 will begin being replaced by exit numbers based on mileage starting Wednesday.The highway corridor that runs between Connecticut and Vermont will be the final highway in the state to get the new...
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