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E — The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: Is encouraging dairy farmers and cattle ranchers to capture methane gas from their livestock’s manure good or bad for the planet? — Phil Onorato, Pittsburgh, PA Methane capture, the process of using the decomposition of livestock...

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to 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 DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College President Kathleen McCartney plans to step down as the school’s leader in summer 2023, a decade after arriving on campus.In an announcement Friday, the college said that McCartney — Smith’s 11th president — will leave her...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Five Holyoke Police Department officers were promoted to new supervisory positions on Wednesday in a ceremony at City Hall.The promotions were made in part to deal with what police leadership say is a staffing crunch in its higher ranks....

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 DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Last week, the city’s acting mayor fired a police officer who earlier this year posted a viral video on social media alleging corruption and racism within the Holyoke Police Department.In March, Rafael Roca, who had been a Holyoke police...

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 DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Fifteen officers in the Holyoke Police Department were paid more than 500 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2020, including four of the department’s five highest-paid officers, who earned hourly overtime rates ranging from $94 to $109 an...

By BERA DUNAU

AMHERST — Amherst College President Biddy Martin plans to travel and work on writing projects after she steps down as the college’s leader next summer, before returning to the college to teach.Martin has served as college president since 2011, and...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

SOUTH HADLEY — The town’s police chief has signed a new three-year contract that will keep her in South Hadley until the beginning of 2024.Police Chief Jennifer Gundersen signed the new contract on July 30, and it will go into effect on Jan. 4, 2022,...

By BERA DUNAU

Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.Both Worthington and Plainfield moved to having full-time chiefs this year. Chesterfield and Goshen are considering regionalizing their police departments after the chiefs in...

By BRIAN STEELE

NORTHAMPTON — The Police Department marked an historic milestone last week as it works to hire more female officers.From 11 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday, a patrol shift was composed of all women for the first time in the city’s history.The Police...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

CHICOPEE — Dozens of school staff members, parents, students and others marched Wednesday in front of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School to protest officials’ decision not to renew the contracts of more than half the school’s...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — As Police Chief Manny Febo prepares for retirement late next month, the city has signed a contract with his successor.On Tuesday, the City Council received a copy of the three-year contract that then mayor Alex Morse signed in January with...

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...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Police on Friday arrested a city man who has been charged with killing Robert James, a 52-year-old Agawam resident, in October.Police arrested Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, after a detective assigned to a road construction detail reportedly...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — After more than a decade of the topic being in the public eye, the School Committee voted Thursday night to push back the time the school day starts for high school students.“Every School Committee who’s faced this issue has agreed...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — Before this year, Benjamin Maddison said he had never been pulled over by the Northampton Police Department. But during the first two months of 2020, he said, he was pulled over three times.In addition to filing complaints against...