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Vermont firm buys Faces building for $3M in Northampton

NORTHAMPTON - The commercial retail building at 175 Main St., formerly home to the iconic store Faces, has sold to a Vermont property developer for nearly $3 million.Redstone Commercial Group, of Burlington, Vermont, bought the 33,228-square-foot building June 21 from Main Street LLP of Montague. Tw...

Holyoke native Anthony Soto named receiver-superintendent of public schools

HOLYOKE - One of Holyoke's own has become the next leader of the city's public schoolsOn Wednesday, the state's education commissioner appointed Anthony Soto as the receiver-superintendent of Holyoke Public Schools (HPS) - a role he had held on an interim basis since the state, in a still-unexplaine...

Three County Fair returning to form in Northampton

NORTHAMPTON - The Three County Fair's record as the longest-running agricultural fair in the United States remains unbroken. On Labor Day weekend, the fair returns for the 204th consecutive year with all of its usual attractions - demolition derby, livestock competitions, carnival-style games, and...

Grassroots creativity: NEF grants continue to enrich learning in Northampton schools

NORTHAMPTON – Lisa Papademetriou, president of the nonprofit Northampton Education Foundation (NEF), was searching for salamanders in her backyard a couple of years ago. Her daughter, then in third grade, had insisted upon it after conducting salamander research at school. They only found salamander...

Uncertainty didn't dampen Hopkins Academy ahead of state semifinal victory

AUBURN - Cody West woke up Thursday morning unsure if his Hopkins Academy baseball team was even going to play a game.Just a few hours later, the sophomore kicked off a raucous celebration after scoring the game-winning run to send the Golden Hawks into the state final.After Wednesday's MIAA Divisio...

Columnist Jim Cahillane: U.S. Air Force blues

In his new book, "The Bomber Mafia," Malcolm Gladwell goes into great detail about World War II's Norden bombsight. As an amateur historian, I've been the incidental beneficiary of lived experience in place of Gladwell's admission of research-lite. The Internet has empowered people with a cell phone...

Northampton synagogue examining reparations from Jewish faith perspective

NORTHAMPTON - Following a long and dedicated history of anti-racism work, Congregation B'nai Israel (CBI) of Northampton has spent the past 10 months focused closely on studying the social ethics of reparations for Black and Indigenous communities, and how they relate specifically to the Jewish fait...

Division 4 baseball: Hopkins Academy claims 3rd straight crown

HADLEY – Jake Smith settled his nerves in his first sectional final.The Hopkins Academy freshman stared down two strikes and two outs in the batter's box, as the Golden Hawks held a precarious two-run lead in the second inning of Monday's Western Massachusetts Division 4 baseball final against Ware....