NORTHAMPTON – Incoming Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan has named Thomas Townsend of Longmeadow to be his new Chief of Appeals starting next month. For the past 12 years, Townsend has been an assistant Hampden County DA working in that office’s Appeals Division. According to a Friday press release from Sullivan’s transition team, Townsend [...]

With the hiring of Leominster native Steve Gagne, incoming Northwestern DA Dave Sullivan completes his leadership team of outsiders. NORTHAMPTON – Once again, DA-Elect David Sullivan has reached across jurisdictions and picked an outsider to fill a key position in his administration. Sullivan, who will be sworn in here as the next Northwestern District Attorney [...]

DA-Elect Dave Sullivan hires Ware native Yvonne Pesce, a former newspaper reporter, to supervise juvenile cases in Hampshire and Franklin Counties. NORTHAMPTON – Yvonne G. Pesce, who currently supervises juvenile courts for the Hampden County District Attorney’s office in Springfield, has been picked by incoming Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan to perform the same duties [...]

Fourth Outsider Selected by Incoming DA in a Reorganized Prosecutor’s Office; UMass-Amherst Grad Will Head Narcotics Unit NORTHAMPTON – DA-elect David E. Sullivan has named Jeremy C. Bucci, an assistant Suffolk County DA and a native of Erving, Mass., to serve as chief trial counsel for the Northwestern District Attorney’s office. Sullivan, who ran unopposed [...]

DA-Elect David Sullivan has picked Rosemary Tarantino, deputy chief of the AG’s Western Regional Office, to a top post. That makes three outsiders, all longtime law enforcement professionals and all women, named to Sullivan’s leadership team in recent days. NORTHAMPTON – DA-elect David Sullivan has added another high-powered name to the list of new faces [...]

Interviews with current DA office prosecutors and staff – all of whom serve at the will of the boss and were asked by David Sullivan to re-apply for their jobs – will continue today in Northampton and Greenfield. NORTHAMPTON – DA-elect David Sullivan, who today will continue interviewing current prosecutors and staff, has picked three women to [...]

David Sullivan, the current register of probate, is turning his full attention towards transforming the Northwestern DA’s office he won running unopposed Nov. 2.  And he’s hoping his transition team can help him implement some new policies and programs he promised voters during his hard-fought primary campaign. NORTHAMPTON – David Sullivan, the Northwestern District Attorney-elect [...]

After losing big in the Democratic Primary, former prosecutor Michael Cahillane has roped his old job back — Northwestern DA Betsy Scheibel rehired him this week. Will he stay or hit the trail when Dave Sullivan, the new DA, rides into town in January? * NORTHAMPTON – Michael Cahillane, the former assistant Northwestern District Attorney [...]

During their campaign for Northwestern District Attorney, Dave Sullivan and Mike Cahillane raised a combined $260,000. They spent about $52,000 on ads in the last month. NORTHAMPTON – The two candidates for Northwestern District Attorney raised a combined $12,346 and spent a total of $44,326 during the last two weeks of the campaign, according to [...]

In Northampton,  30 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in Tuesday’s primary election. Overall, the turnout was 18.4 percent. Ware was a shameful 7 percent. NORTHAMPTON – Turnout is always a prickly issue in party primaries. Highly motivated citizens get to the polling places – often with the help from a candidate’s campaign – [...]

When the big prizes started to fall  – Easthampton, Greenfield and then Amherst  – the large crowd knew Dave Sullivan would be the next DA. Then “Happy Days Are Here Again” started to play over the speakers. EASTHAMPTON – The first signs of a landslide victory came early for the crowd gathered Tuesday night to support Northwestern [...]

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One candidate for the chief prosecutor’s job claimed top office salaries were too high. Take a look for yourself. Then go out and vote today. NORTHAMPTON – It was during a radio interview last week that Northwestern District Attorney candidate David E. Sullivan raised the issue of high salaries among the top tier of assistants [...]

NORTHAMPTON – With only a few days left before the Sept. 14 Democratic Primary election for Northwestern District Attorney, the two candidates – Register of Probate David E. Sullivan and former longtime assistant DA Michael A. Cahillane – have been busy making live appearances and touting their endorsements. Sullivan’s most important statement of support came [...]

Where Are DA Candidates Mike Cahillane and Dave Sullivan Getting Their Campaign Cash? You might be surprised. NORTHAMPTON – The scramble for cash between the two Northwestern District Attorney candidates in the Sept. 14 Democratic Party primary has brought in contributions not only from Hampshire and Franklin Counties – which with the Town of Athol [...]