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By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — Due to a tight budget, the William E. Norris School is asking for a $110,000 override at Town Meeting Tuesday night to fund additional staff and necessary supplies.Southampton residents will vote on 39 articles at Town Meeting, which...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — Four candidates running for the two seats on the Select Board all voiced parallel concern for a top priority in town — a new public safety complex.“If we don’t do anything within the next few years, it’s literally going to fall down,”...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — With two seats open on the Select Board and four candidates running, the town is holding an event Wednesday night to help inform voters.Southampton’s “Meet Your Select Board Candidates” forum is at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 210 College...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTHAMPTON — The cause of a brush fire that consumed more than 12 acres in Southampton on Easter Sunday has been ruled accidental, said Fire Chief John C. Workman.Investigators pinpointed an old railroad bed as the origin of the fire, which burned...

By JACK SUNTRUP

SOUTHAMPTON — When 16-year-old Damien Cox caught a faint burning smell Sunday afternoon, he assumed the scent was wafting from a neighbor’s kitchen. It was Easter, after all.“So we didn’t think anything of it,” he said.Later, his godfather spotted the...

By GAZETTE STAFF

SOUTHAMPTON – Commuters will have to find a different route this morning as a portion of Brickyard Road will be closed from the Gilbert Road intersection to Valley Road.The closure comes as construction crews work to remove railroad tracks near Valley...

BY MORGAN HUGHES

SOUTHAMPTON — At precisely 6 a.m. and 4 p.m., Dena trots over to the dining room, hops in her special high chair and chows down.This is part the daily routine of Dena, the 11-year-old Welsh corgi and her owner, 89-year-old Theresa St. Martin. When she...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — The town’s three-decade practice of using public money to remove snow and ice from private streets may soon come to an end.“It is illegal and other communities are doing it (plowing),” Select Board member James Labrie said at a public...

By TAYLOR TELFORD

When the planes decimated the Twin Towers in 2001, Jim McGorry watched on the television in his darkened bar, Ye Ol’ Watering Hole on Pleasant Street in Northampton. It was 10 a.m. and the bar was closed, but people pounded on the door and he let them...