Easthampton News

EASTHAMPTON - For one quarter, Hopkins Academy's Kate Sullivan looked like a freshman still battling the illness that kept her out of the Golden Hawks' previous game.

Corina Miller stands in front of her new shop she's opening in Easthampton called The Botaniste.

While it's certainly not the dining out mecca that Northampton has come to be, the neighboring Easthampton does offer a number of noteworthy eating experiences.

An Easthampton man has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for illegal firearms dealing and illegally possessing firearms.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- It isn't often noticed because the state line serves as a great divide, but art has been creeping up the Connecticut River Valley.

While trying to imagine how she could follow Old Deerfield Productions' original opera "The Captivation of Eunice Williams" with another success, artistic director Linda McInerney dreamed she was sitting in Northampton's Academy of Music with composer Paula Kimper.

By JANICE BEETLE GODLESKI EASTHAMPTON - Here's some trivia about the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of Easthampton : It was founded in 1965 as part of the national Dollars For Scholars initiative, and each year, roughly 80 to 100 Easthampton high school seniors who are going on to college are awarded scholarships that range from $200 to $1,000.

With interviews finished, Mayor Michael A. Tautznik said he's checking references and hopes to have a finalist for the city planner's position soon.

EASTHAMPTON On his last day as Easthampton's city planner on Feb. 2, Stuart Beckley reflected on how he felt when he first took the job as in 1989.

David Fried Oppenheim was convicted on five counts of child rape. The jury heard from five witnesses who described sexual encounters with the defendant.

EASTHAMPTON - City and state officials, along with family and friends, threw a farewell party Thursday for Stuart B. Beckley, the 22-year City Planner who has taken the Town Manager job in Ware .

The jury in the David Fried Oppenheim child rape case spent about two hours deliberating Friday afternoon before stopping for the weekend.

NORTHAMPTON - In day four of his trial on five counts of statutory rape Thursday, David Fried Oppenheim took the stand to answer one essential question from his lawyer: had he ever engaged in sex with the alleged victim? 'Absolutely not,' said Fried Oppenheim.

Anup Sangar of Lee stands in front of the former Treydon's Bar & Grill. He purchased the building and will open an Indian Restaurant there in March.

The City Council Rules subcommittee is considering whether to adopt an ethics rule to protect the council in the future following an ethnic comment in December by City Councilor Donald L. Cykowski .

In what were purportedly the defendant's own words, a witness in the David Fried Oppenheim child rape case read a graphic description of Oppenheim's alleged first sexual encounter with the 14-year-old girl he's accused of raping to a spellbound Hampshire Superior Court jury Wednesday.

PALMER - Town Manager Charles T. Blanchard has begun a salary study for department heads, and hopes to have information ready to present to the Town Council at its Feb.

EASTHAMPTON The Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce honored myriad local businesses and residents at its annual meeting Jan.

The alleged victim in the David Fried Oppenheim child rape trial told a Hampshire Superior Court jury Tuesday that she waited five years before telling anyone that she had sex with Oppenheim because she was ashamed.

Anup Sangar of Lee stands in front of the former Treydon's Bar & Grill. He purchased the Easthampton building and will open an Indian Restaurant there in March.