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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HATFIELD — When U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern spoke in front of the crowd at Prospect Meadow Farms in Hatfield on Friday, he couldn’t help but to compare it to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C.“Everyone’s so happy, and the reason everyone’s so happy...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — As the school year winds down in communities throughout Massachusetts, legislators on Beacon Hill will soon determine whether students will continue to get free lunches, as they have throughout the pandemic, when they return to school...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — Local activists for Cuba and Venezuela are calling on U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern to sign a letter to President Joe Biden condemning sanctions that they say have impacted the countries’ economies and contributed to a surge of migrants at the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — At Ryan Road Elementary School, students in Diana Ramsden’s first grade class work on reading and writing using a mixture of phonics lessons already included in the school’s reading curriculum and new lessons being piloted from one of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HOLYOKE — Twice facing the trauma of eviction and once making a vehicle home for herself and her four children, as well as living inside a mold-filled apartment, Shaundell Diaz of Springfield brings firsthand knowledge of homelessness.Now the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Even if the students at Bridge Street Elementary School didn’t know who Patrick Tutwiler was, they could clearly tell he was somebody important.Students frequently stopped him during a Monday tour of the pre-K-5 school to say hello,...

By Sophie Hauck

NORTHAMPTON — Judy “JR” Raphael wore a bag over her head when she marched in the Northampton Pride parade during the 1970s, plainly decorated with two holes where her eyes could scan the cheering crowds without exposing her identity. Working in...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Students from five area high schools packed the historic county courthouse Thursday for Law Day events focused on the theme of voting rights.Organized by the Northwestern district attorney’s office, the morning program included skits...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — For the first time in three years, Pride returns to the city on Saturday to celebrate the LGBTQ community with a parade, performances, vendors and a bar crawl.A new organization called Hampshire Pride is fronting the event, which will...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

EASTHAMPTON — In front of a packed audience at Easthampton Congregational Church, Wright Dickinson shared a story about a weekend getaway to the Carolinas he took years ago with several friends, including Michael Gross.During the trip, the men took...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — For the first year since the pandemic, the Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture will host its annual storytelling event, Field Notes, in person Sunday at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton.The event, which was first...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A $19.1 million extensive redesign of Main Street downtown outlined this week calls for removing more than a third of on-street parking, adding bike lanes in both directions and planting new trees throughout the downtown area, all part...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — The Daily Hampshire Gazette, in partnership with the Greenfield Recorder and the United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region, is accepting nominations for its two annual awards given to outstanding individuals in the area.Each year...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council unanimously approved significant water and sewer rate increases for the coming fiscal year, although not without first questioning why the increases had to happen in the first place.Property owners can expect to pay 210%...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Now this is the way to spend a school day.As she prepared to climb a tree in Look Park Thursday morning as part of an arbor skills competition, Violet Geoffrion donned a positioning saddle and protective helmet and clipped herself to a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The average homeowner in the city is expected to pay 210% more in base water rates next fiscal year — as well as a new base sewer rate — as the city seeks to make up for expected lost revenue when the Coca-Cola bottling plant closes...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — An educator with more than 30 years of experience, including four previous stints leading school districts, has been selected as the new superintendent for Northampton Public Schools. The School Committee voted 9-1 Monday to offer the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A soft rainfall and chilly air weren’t going to extinguish the hundreds of candles lit on Friday night in memory of Jesse Johansmeyer, a Florence teenager who died tragically last week.At the vigil, held at Childs Park, more than 100...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — Backed in part by funding from a new Florence-based philanthropic organization, Friends of Children Inc. intends to start a financial literacy program for as many as 50 young people impacted by foster care or juvenile-justice...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Supporters of enhanced passenger rail service in western Massachusetts packed the Senior Center Tuesday to testify before the legislative commission studying the project’s governance and funding.From as far afield as Greenfield, Palmer...