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By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — When she was in first grade, Kristal, a transgender girl, was pushed down a rocky hill by a schoolmate while playing basketball, leaving her with a large scar on her back. Another time, a classmate pushed her down in gym class, causing a...

By Emily Thurlow

NORTHAMPTON — A Mediterranean breeze has swept through downtown, bringing a taste and feel of Morocco to Main Street with Meriyem’s Cafe.Located in the storefront formerly occupied by Dobrá Tea, the Northampton eatery offers its patrons the allure...

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — Some of the powerful players in Massachusetts’ business community are getting impatient for long-promised, and long-delayed, tax relief as August concludes without action.The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Massachusetts Society...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — With a sunny forecast and a schedule packed with agricultural events, music, motor sport activities, food and local art, the 206th Three County Fair is set to kick off Friday and run through Labor Day on Monday.First been held in 1818,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Planning Board approved a site plan Thursday for a six-story affordable housing project at 27 Crafts Ave., clearing a key hurdle for the 30-unit building to rise from behind City Hall in the coming years. Valley Community...

By Emily Thurlow

NORTHAMPTON — Yankee Mattress Company, an Agawam-based manufacturer which has gained a “cool” reputation with its gel memory foam mattresses it provides to the high-roller suites at MGM Springfield, is moving its Northampton showroom.The company,...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – Flora Majumder, age 88, enjoys taking a 20-minute walk every day. Where she lives — at Lathrop Retirement Community in Easthampton — paths, trails and exercise classes that accommodate the use of a cane or walker are plentiful.But, due...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — After being closed unexpectedly for several weeks, a mainstay of the downtown lunch scene reopened its doors Thursday, welcoming people in for coffee and drinks.“For now, the kitchen is closed — we’re not serving food,” Haymarket Cafe...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — Since last summer, nearly 1,800 people around the Valley have received reproductive, addiction, and sexual health services on a mobile van operated by Tapestry Health.The van is part of a “Community Care in Reach” program funded by the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Comparing Donald Trump to Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, John Bonifaz, a local attorney and activist, condemned Trump at a rally in Northampton on Thursday shortly after the former president was arraigned in...

By BOB FLAHERTY

One hundred years ago last night, Vice President Calvin Coolidge of Northampton went to bed. He and his wife Grace had taken leave of Washington and were visiting his father in rural Plymouth Notch, Vermont, sleeping in the very house he’d grown up...

By Bob Flaherty

Editor’s note: This column written by Bob Flaherty, then a Gazette reporter, originally ran in November 2009.NORTHAMPTON — So he was cool after all. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, whose stern gaze is forever fixed on the comings and goings of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge, and residents of the Pioneer Valley can mark the occasion by visiting the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum at Forbes Library in...

Several events in the Valley will take place in the coming days to commemorate the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Here is a rundown: ■On Saturday, from 11 a.m.-12 p.m., at the corner of King/Pleasant and Main streets in downtown Northampton there...

By Bob Flaherty

NORTHAMPTON — “There’s wickedness in this place!” “I am innocent and God knows it! “Goody Parsons, I am not the source of your despair — you have been entertaining Satan in Northampton!”The shrieks pierced the air inside the ballroom of Hotel...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — On a cloudy and humid Thursday morning, John Briggs was doing the same thing he has done since 2014: placing mosquito traps and collecting them for testing in the lab.But this time, recent prolonged heavy rains and heat meant that he was...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — As Chase Bank celebrated at a grand opening event for its Northampton branch Tuesday morning, more than 50 demonstrators held signs and banners outside the building calling out the bank’s investments in the fossil fuel industry and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

In July 2021, heavy rainfall caused a beaver dam to burst, leading to the collapse of a 20-foot-long portion of East Street in Belchertown and causing property damage to nearly half a dozen homes.While the beavers faced the brunt of the blame,...

ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital broke ground on its new emergency department building in a ceremony Thursday, an event that also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its partnership with the Mass General Brigham hospital system.The project,...

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — Though they may be headquartered in small offices under one roof in downtown Northampton, two social justice nonprofits have their eyes focused several thousand miles away in political hot spots like Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina...