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 [...]

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 [...]

      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 [...]

   STATE AWARDS $302K GRANT FOR SKIBISKI LAND PURCHASE   NORTHAMPTON – The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded the city a $302,000 Drinking Water Supply Protection Grant to help with the purchase of 127 acres of land in Whately on watershed land that feeds the Mountain Street Reservoir in Haydenville.  The reservoir is [...]

  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 [...]

For more than a year, Northampton’s restaurant king has been operating the Paradise City Tavern as a nightclub without a nightclub permit, with no occupancy limit and without the legal number of bathrooms. After the club’s recent trouble with the cops and a slap on the wrist, the city’s building commissioner is poised to lay [...]

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CITY GETS $500,000 GRANT TO BUY AND START BUILDING ATHLETIC FIELDS NORTHAMPTON – The city has received a $500,000 grant to buy, design and start construction on the Florence Fields Recreation Area on Meadow Street, Mayor Mary Clare Higgins stated in a press release today. The grant, from the state Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for [...]

“War Dollars” Measure Passes City Council with No Debate NORTHAMPTON — A resolution to “Bring the War Dollars Home” passed 6-2-1 Thursday on its second and final reading, with Councilors Angela Plassmann and Eugene Tacy voting “no,” and Councilor David Murphy abstaining. The non-binding measure — the first such measure to pass in Massachusetts — calls for [...]