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By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Moments before she was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering her wife, Cara Rintala trudged to a seat beside her attorneys.The shackles around her ankles clanked and dragged along the wooden floor as...

By AMANDA DRANE

CUMMINGTON — By the middle of next month, the property that housed Swift River Academy will once again help people find their way.The former school for troubled youths, whose acreage extends into Plainfield, was bought and renovated by a Tennessee...

By SARAH CROSBY

NORTHAMPTON — As golden sunlight splashed through trees, some 1,500 people gathered at Look Park on Tuesday for what has become a longstanding celebration of local music.Transperformance 26 – the annual music benefit for arts enrichment in the...

By SHELBY ASHLINE

GILL — The Northfield Mount Hermon School has fired longtime teacher Gary Partenheimer over allegations of misconduct with a female student from more than 30 years ago.The news was reported this week to members of the school community in a letter from...

By CHRIS LINDAHL

In coming out to dozens of co-workers at a buttoned-up health research office, Aubri Drake had to start from the beginning.“When you’re born, when you pop out, the doctor takes a quick look between your legs and says ‘It’s a boy,’ or ‘It’s a girl,’”...

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...

By TAYLOR TELFORD

NORTHAMPTON — In a blue American Eagle T-shirt, slinky black basketball shorts and tennis shoes, Wayne J. Dlugozima, 54, might have been mistaken for a casual observer rather than a prisoner, were it not for the handcuffs encircling his wrists and...

Ricky Aviles and Christian Lopez, two men with histories of gang activity in Holyoke, were recently released from jail in Franklin County. They spoke of their lives and challenges with Gazette collaborator Revan Schendler. When I was around 8 years...