NORTHAMPTON — Outraged by the recent killing of Renee Nicole Good by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, well over a 1,000 people took to the streets in Northampton on Jan. 11 to protest ICE’s operations across the country.
NORTHAMPTON—Several months after a major weather event caused the culvert on Old Wilson Road to fail, the city is now planning to remove that culvert and open the road’s stream channel.
EASTHAMPTON — Two major projects in the city will move forward after the City Council officially accepted state grants to help fund the undertakings.
EASTHAMPTON — A little over one week after ranked-choice voting decided Easthampton’s mayor, city leaders at all levels of government are pining for the mechanism to expand to multi-winner election races.
SPRINGFIELD — When a halt in federal funding for the supplemental nutritional assistance program left food insecure people scrambling to feed their themselves and their children, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi, Bishop Talbert Swan of the NAACP and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts formed a coalition to keep the community fed.