Two Candidates File for Ward 3 City Council Seat   NORTHAMPTON – In Northampton’s Ward 3, there are now two would-be candidates to replace Angela Plassmann, who unexpectedly quit April 8 for reasons that remain unclear. (To see our story on her abrupt resignation, click here.) A special election is scheduled for Aug. 2 to fill her [...]

What Can the City Do When the Municipal Landfill’s Largest Customer Stops Hauling In Trash and Starts Its Own Waste Transfer Station? Reduce Prices and Hope Business Picks Up. NORTHAMPTON — The region’s biggest waste hauler has stopped dumping trash at the city’s regional landfill on Glendale Road, and public works officials here are trying [...]

Option One: Keep Glendale Road and Locust Street transfer stations open; households may opt for private collection Supporters: Council President David Narkewicz, Ward 6 Councilor Marianne LaBarge, Ward 6 resident Mimi Odgers, task force co-chairs Wendy Foxmyn and Mark Carmien Option Four: City-wide curbside pickup; keep Glendale Road transfer station open only for bulky and [...]

NORTHAMPTON — A task force that’s spent the last five months developing options for handling the city’s trash and recycling in the coming years heard from city residents at a public forum Monday night. Changes are afoot because the city’s regional landfill on Glendale Road is slated to close in mid-2012. Disposal costs for residents [...]

Two public forums this week will focus on future city trash solutions, while one local company is already doing its part. ••• NORTHAMPTON – Even as a task force of mayoral appointees debates proposals for dealing with local trash and recycling after the city’s regional landfill closes next year, a new, privately run transfer and sorting station has [...]

With deed in hand, the Tremaine family is happy in their new Park Hill Road home  NORTHAMPTON – Six months after arriving here for his new job at the VA and quickly finding a house he thought was perfect for him and his family, Richard Tremaine is now the proud owner of the “Landfill House” [...]

  NORTHAMPTON — In a press release issued yesterday, Mayor Mary Clare Higgins announced the formation of a nine-member Solid Waste Reduction and Management Task Force, to be staffed by the city’s Solid Waste Coordinator, Karen Bouquillon.  The task force has been told to find a financially self-sustaining waste management system for the city which “maximizes [...]

“LANDFILL HOUSE” SALE APPROVED NORTHAMPTON – The city-owned home at 981 Park Hill Road will soon be occupied by VA administrator Richard Tremaine and his family, although he will be renting the house, at least for a while. On Monday, the Board of Public Works voted 6-0 to accept Tremaine’s high offer of $381,500 for [...]

King Street Church Wants Big Parish Hall; Hearing on Thursday NORTHAMPTON — The Catholic church formerly known as Sacred Heart — renamed St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in January — will go before three city committees on Thursday night in its bid to tear down two buildings and construct a new, 14,000 square-foot parish hall and [...]

VA Administrator Richard Tremaine’s bid of $381,500 far outdistanced the other three offers Monday for 981 Park Hill Road. NORTHAMPTON – Richard Tremaine, whose high bid this July on a city-owned house near the Glendale Road landfill was discarded on a technicality, was the apparent high bidder again today during a second round of bids [...]

Thwarted “Landfill House” Bidder Files Appeal To Block Resale Process NORTHAMPTON – The lawyer for caterer Seth Mias, whose bid to buy a city-owned house at 981 Park Hill Road was rejected by the Board of Public Works in July, has filed an appeal with the state Appeals Court to force the city to accept [...]

VA administrator Richard Tremaine and Caterer Seth Mias are among four parties submitting bids on the Park Hill home Sept. 13 NORTHAMPTON – Four prospective buyers submitted offers Monday to buy a city-owned house at 981 Park Hill Road, despite a judge’s order delaying the opening of the bids for two weeks. Three of the bidders [...]

The lawyer for Seth Mias says he will appeal the judge’s ruling   NORTHAMPTON – A Hampshire Superior Court judge has denied caterer Seth Mias’ request for a preliminary injunction to stop the city from selling a house near the regional Glendale Road landfill. But in a four-page ruling issued today, Judge Judd J. Carhart [...]

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council late Thursday gave final approval to a measure that specifically prohibits landfills within water supply protection districts here. The landmark vote caps 10 years of controversy over plans to expand the city-owned regional landfill on Glendale Road. The decision, which could be overturned by a future council vote, now puts the [...]

War Dollars, Landfill Ban, Dam Preservation and Councilor Tacy’s Back Taxes Among Many Items on Sept. 2 Agenda NORTHAMPTON – A number of weighty issues face the City Council when it meets Thursday, including a proposed ordinance to ban landfills over aquifers, a “War Dollars” resolution to ban further military spending abroad, and a resolution [...]