Northampton News

Holding signs reading "Don't Let our Mail Service Fall Apart," a half-dozen postal workers Monday evening stood in front of the Northampton post office calling attention to service cutbacks.

Parishioners of St. Mary's Catholic Church in downtown Northampton, across the street from College Hall and adjoining Stoddard Hall, received some disconcerting news over the weekend of Nov.

UCI Commissaire Harry Lam of West Jordan, Utah was seriously injured in a collision with a rider at the conclusion of the Masters 35+ category race in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Saturday November 7. The New England Bicycle Racing Association sanctioned the amateur race, which ran in conjunction with the Cycle-Smart International UCI cyclocross ...

The latest Camera Obscura single, "The Sweetest Thing," is four minutes of aching effervescence, a breakup song disguised as pure sunshine pop.

The City Council will take up a resolution calling for local employers to pay their workers a living wage when it meets tonight.

Despite three open houses and interest from eight parties, not a single prospective buyer made an offer to buy a home the city acquired for $545,436 near the regional landfill this year.

Two Northampton teens were ordered held without bail Tuesday and two others remain at large for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery at a Pleasant Street rooming house Monday evening.

Parishioners of the city's Catholic churches got the first glimpse this weekend of a consolidated parish forming after the new year.

A donation fund has been set-up on behalf of UCI official Harry Lam from Utah, who was injured in Northampton, MA on November 7th.

Jamey Driscoll and Mary McConneloug made it two for two on Sunday, winning the second round of the Cycle-Smart International in Northampton, Massachusetts.

The Elm Street Historic District Committee is looking for public input on extending the district to some 60 properties to the north and south of the current boundaries.

Editor's note: This remembrance honors two citizens of Northampton who died recently.

A porch fire on Hancock Street early Tuesday has renewed fears among Ward 3 residents about a string of fires in the neighborhood off Bridge Street.

The keynote speaker at the city's annual Veterans Day ceremony said the country should build housing so that veterans returning home with disorders won't have to spend future holidays sleeping in the woods and under bridges.

Investigators are probing the cause of a fire that caused some $75,000 in damage to a home on Hancock Street early Tuesday morning.

Easthampton Mayor Michael Tautznik and Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins were returned to office Tuesday night by voters in their respective cities.

The battle for the Bean is on. The 47-acre farm in the Mill River flood plain has found itself in the middle of a tug-of-war between farming advocates who want to keep its prize soil in agriculture and sports buffs who are desperate for new playing fields in Northampton.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has amended its plan to merge five parishes in Northampton.

A Massachusetts man arrested Thursday in Northampton for allegedly assaulting a taxi driver jumped from the George Washington Bridge the next day - and survived his 212-foot fall.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield announced this weekend it will change its plans in Northampton and keep Sacred Heart Church open and instead close St.