Financial woes at some area golf courses result from a weak economy, last year’s late-summer rains and a late-October blizzard. By DAVID REID HOLYOKE – Music mogul and businessman Eric Suher, of Holyoke, bought the Holyoke Country Club on Thursday, paying $850,000 for the 112-acre parcel at 2 Country Club Road, according to records of [...]

By AMANDA DRANE NORTHAMPTON—The License Commission hopes to clarify city regulations around the late-night sale of food at bars and restaurants, and has sent a formal notice inviting all liquor licensees to attend tonight’s public hearing on the matter. The meeting will begin at 4:00 in City Council Chambers. The issue came to the city’s [...]

Superior Court Judge Mary-Lou Rup says there’s no reason to stop lawyer Alan Seewald from dropping the BID lawsuit against the city to take the city solicitor’s job. But the judge said Seewald can’t make the move yet, describing the timing of his emergency motion as “unfortunate and problematic.” Below, Northampton Media provides you with [...]

Alan Seewald wants to be the new mayor’s top lawyer, but first he needs to drop a group of high-profile clients who are locked in a legal battle with the city. Alan Scheinman and Eric Suher don’t trust Seewald to keep their secrets, and are trying to block his going to work for their arch [...]

City assessors are sending the Springfield Roman Catholic Diocese new property tax bills of more than $42,000 for shuttered churches here. By DAVID REID NORTHAMPTON – City assessors have begun taxing two more Catholic churches here – St. John’s Cantius on Hawley Street and St. Mary’s on Elm St. – since neither has been actively used [...]

By MARY SERREZE NORTHAMPTON — Hampshire Superior Court Justice Cornelius J. Moriarty ruled on Thursday that city economic development director Teri Anderson is not exempt from public records law when it comes to her communication with the Three County Fairgrounds Redevelopment Corporation. Anderson was until recently a voting member of the corporation’s board of directors. [...]

NORTHAMPTON — Al Williams, director of Northampton Community Television, plans on putting dozens of flip cameras — that is, cheap, easy-to-use video recorders — into the hands of ordinary people next year, and teaching them the basic arts of citizen journalism and storytelling. The citizen journalism project is just one of the goals set by [...]

Teri Anderson, after 25 years in the public sector, eleven working for the City of Northampton, has accepted a position with Common Capital, a regional non-profit economic development organization. NORTHAMPTON — City Economic Development Director Teri Anderson will leave her post in mid-January to take the newly-created position of Business Development Director at Common Capital, [...]

NORTHAMPTON — A proposal to build a 3,600 square-foot Cumberland Farms convenience store and gas station in the heart of Florence Center was rejected 9-0 by the Planning Board Thursday night, only hours after the Zoning Board declined to close a special hearing on whether strip-mall parking was a grandfathered use at the site. The [...]

NORTHAMPTON, WED. DEC. 7 — The city’s License Commission ruled today that Eclipse Restaurant at 186 Main St. must surrender its liquor license for three days, lending approval to an agreement reached between Police Chief Russell Sienkiewicz and the establishment’s management. The suspension was related to the charge that four underage Smith College students were [...]

NORTHAMPTON — Democratic United States Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren spent an hour touring downtown Northampton yesterday afternoon before heading over to the Hotel Northampton for a gala fundraiser. Warren and acting mayor David Narkewicz, accompanied by a press contingent and Business Improvement District director Dan Yacuzzo, stopped in at Ode and Cathy Cross, both high-end [...]

NORTHAMPTON — Almost two weeks have passed since the November 19 break-in that left Pam’s Kickin’ Kuts of 92 King Street out of more than $1,500, between stolen cash and estimated damages, yet the police investigation remains without a breakthrough, according to store owner Pam Bushey, 37, of Southampton. “Nothing yet, unfortunately,” Bushey said in [...]

HOLYOKE — Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday that Massachusetts shouldn’t sit back and wait for conditions to improve, but make bold moves now to create the 21st-century economy. “We have to be about building our own future — inventing our own destiny — not sitting around waiting and whining about how tough it is!” proclaimed [...]

The New Owners Averted Disaster when a Freak October Snowstorm Knocked Out Power, Almost Ruining their $5,000 Opening Week Food Order By DAVID REID NORTHAMPTON – The long-awaited opening of Jake’s, the iconic downtown no-frills restaurant, got off to a stumble two weeks ago because of the massive October 29-30 snowstorm that knocked out power [...]

NORTHAMPTON — Tully O’Reilly’s, a downtown sports bar, has re-opened after losing its liquor license for five days in October. The state’s Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) determined on June 21 that an intoxicated patron had been served alcohol there last November, but it wasn’t until Sept. 12 that the city’s license commission was informed [...]