There are several upcoming debates for mayor and for at-large City Council. Here are the wheres and whens of the first round of debates, starting tonight.   For Mayor. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 7-9 p.m. Northampton High School.  This event is at 7 p.m. tonight. The Baystate Village Association and the Florence Civic and Business Association will [...]

Learning the ropes in his temporary office, the acting mayor rolls up his sleeves and gets down to business. NORTHAMPTON – On the third day as acting mayor, and the first regular weekday of his new job, City Council President David Narkewicz arrived at Room One in City Hall about 8:30 a.m. and started figuring [...]

It’s one if by air, and two if by land. The mayors are coming! The mayors are coming! (Corrected Oct. 19) NORTHAMPTON – The mayor’s race is heating up and the signs are popping up all over. For Michael Bardsley, the most recent salvo was the aerial advertising plane that flew over the city last [...]

Several candidates for the Nov. 8 election waited until the last few days to hand in their nomination papers. But no one stepped up to challenge the new Ward 3 city councilor. By DAVID REID NORTHAMPTON – Ward 3’s Owen Freeman-Daniels, the newest and youngest member of the City Council, will run unopposed on the [...]

Photos © Paul Shoul. Audio © Mary Serreze. Freshman Councilor Draws Big Crowd To Start His Official Re-Election Push at the World War II Club. NORTHAMPTON — At-large City Councilor Jesse Adams, 33, kicked off his reelection campaign Monday night with an event that drew more than 100 people, including a roster of the city’s established [...]

Images © Paul Shoul, Audio © Mary Serreze NORTHAMPTON — It was a jubilant night for Owen Freeman-Daniels and his supporters. After scoring an almost 3-1 victory over opponent Arnold Levinson in the Aug. 2 Ward 3 City Council special election, the councilor-elect and a large crowd of well-wishers headed down Main Street to the [...]

 The Ward 3 special election winner racks up 75 percent of the vote, and is sworn in as the new Ward 3 city councilor in a City Hall ceremony. NORTHAMPTON – By all measures, yesterday’s special election was a landslide victory for Owen Freeman-Daniels, who beat Arnold Levinson 658 to 223 to fill the vacant [...]

Special Election Tuesday for Vacant Ward 3 City Council Seat NORTHAMPTON – The voting booths are set up, and the optical-scanner vote-counting machines are at the ready for Tuesday’s special election in Ward 3, where retired orthodontist Arnold Levinson and financial consultant Owen Freeman-Daniels both want to be the ward’s next city councilor. Whomever wins [...]

With Two Candidates Dropping Out of the Races, the Contests Firm Up and the City Saves up to $20,000. NORTHAMPTON – Two would-be candidates who took out nomination papers to run for at-large City Council, one of whom also took out papers to run for mayor, said Friday they will not follow through with their candidacies. [...]

NORTHAMPTON – With one week to go before a special election to fill the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat, the two candidates – retired orthodontist Arnold Levinson and financial consultant Owen Freeman-Daniels – have filed their list of campaign contributors and expenses with the city clerk. The reports show that Levinson has outpaced Freeman [...]

Photography by Paul Shoul, Audio by Mary Serreze. Soundslide: Opening statements by Ward 3 city council candidates Arnold Levinson and Owen Freeman-Daniels. NORTHAMPTON — A retired orthodontist and a young financial planner both want to be the next Ward 3 city councilor. And the two wasted no time taking off the gloves at a candidates’ [...]

Former city councilor Fran Volkmann will moderate the debate, with questions to come from emails and audience members. NORTHAMPTON – The race to fill the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat picks up steam next Tuesday when the two candidates – retired orthodontist Arnold Levinson and financial consultant Owen Freeman-Daniels – face off in a [...]

NORTHAMPTON – The field of at-large City Council candidates has expanded to six, now that Florence resident Christopher Allard has taken out nomination papers for the two-year, $5,000-a-year post. Every two years, voters elect two at-large councilors to represent the entire city, while also voting for one councilor to represent each of the seven wards [...]

NORTHAMPTON — Two candidates for the Ward 3 City Council seat here are ramping it up in anticipation of an Aug. 2 special election by stumping in the neighborhoods, collecting testimonials, and honing their messages. Owen Freeman-Daniels, 31, a self-described “progressive Democrat,” and Arnold “Arnie” Levinson, 70, a lifelong Republican who recently changed his party [...]

NORTHAMPTON — William “Bill” Dwight, 55, who’s running for one of two at-large city council seats here, kicked off his campaign last Tuesday with a gala event at the Florence Civic Center. Dwight, 55, of 39 Myrtle St., served as Ward 1 city councilor for four terms, from 1996-2004. He is a former radio talk [...]