New Jake’s Owners To Appear at Wednesday’s License Commission   NORTHAMPTON – The two local chefs who plan to re-open Jake’s restaurant by next month are scheduled to appear tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 7) before the city License Commission, where they are seeking the common victualer’s license they need to sell food and beverages. For the [...]

Five months after the city License Commission gave him a slap on the wrist, restaurant mogul Guerra scraps his appeal to the state’s liquor regulators. NORTHAMPTON – When the city License Commission voted last November to suspend the Paradise City Tavern’s liquor license for two days, but suspended that penalty for one year, it seemed [...]

In a letter to the building commissioner, Angela Plassmann’s lawyer denies the mobile home was illegal and rails against “secret informants” who turned in his client to authorities. NORTHAMPTON – It’s case closed down in the building department, now that former city councilor Angela Plassmann’s unauthorized mobile home has been removed from her property in [...]

The city’s building commissioner has determined that the “trailer” on former city councilor Angela Plassmann’s property is really a mobile home that fails to meet state and local regulations for the floodplain. To say nothing of unpaid property taxes. . .   NORTHAMPTON – The mobile home on former city councilor Angela Plassmann’s property in [...]

Four days after a formal complaint was lodged about a trailer on her property in the floodplain, the Ward 3 councilor resigns, citing harassment from an unnamed department head NORTHAMPTON — Fifteen months into her first term as the Ward 3 city councilor, Angela Plassmann resigned today. In a formal resignation letter to Mayor Mary [...]

Building Commissioner Orders Fewer Nightclub Patrons for Paradise City Tavern; Management To Seek Re-Hearing on Bathroom Regulations NORTHAMPTON – The Paradise City Tavern has lost its appeal before a state board that would have allowed it to operate as a nightclub without adding several new bathrooms as required by the state plumbing code. As a [...]

After recent storms, city employees and private contractors labored to remove snow and ice from city streets and rooftops. And it wasn’t cheap. NORTHAMPTON – The cost of recent snow and ice storms has pushed the Department of Public Works’ spending on snow removal up to about $500,000 for the season, DPW Director Edward Huntley [...]

      EXTENSION LIKELY ON TAVERN’S TOILET VARIANCE  REQUEST NORTHAMPTON – The Paradise City Tavern, whose toilet troubles have well-documented by Northampton Media, has been given a Feb. 23 hearing date before the Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gasfitters. Earlier this month, William Collins, the tavern’s former manager and now the GM [...]

Board of Health sides with building commissioner, tells Paradise City Tavern to limit nightclub attendance or build more bathrooms. NORTHAMPTON – The city Board of Health is refusing to play ball with the Paradise City Tavern, which wants a variance from the state plumbing code so it can continue operating as a nightclub without adding [...]

Building Commissioner Louis Hasbrouck cites lack of adequate bathrooms in his decision, but allows continued nightclub use at reduced occupancy while owner Claudio Guerra seeks exemption from state plumbing code. NORTHAMPTON – Building Commissioner Louis Hasbrouck has denied an application from the Paradise City Tavern for a change of use from restaurant to nightclub. In [...]

Former city councilor Maria Tymoczko’s appeal to the state DEP over stormwater problems at the Three County Fairgrounds brings a temporary halt to construction plans.   NORTHAMPTON – It only took a week for visions of a revitalized and redesigned Three County Fairgrounds here to hit a high water mark – and then to quickly drain away. [...]

  The State Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission Has Scheduled a New Hearing for Jan. 12 in Boston, and There’s No Telling How the Commissioners Will Rule. NORTHAMPTON – The owner of the Paradise City Tavern has appealed the club’s recently issued two-day suspension – which itself was suspended for one year – to the state [...]