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Around Town
Hot EMTs spotted at Serio’s
by Mary Serreze | Feb 28, 2010 6:28 pm | Comments (2)
Northampton’s Finest, at Serio’s Market for lunch. ‘Cause everybody’s got to eat.
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The Running Man of Baye Pond
by Sky Sutton | Feb 25, 2010 3:51 pm | Comments (6)
When the bodies of four local men were discovered in the woods and ponds of Northampton, Massachusetts during the spring of 2009, I wanted to find out more. My crew of adventurers, along with local, state and environmental police, a mysterious visitor, and the men from Tent City all helped to fill in the blanks. Who was the dead man found floating in Baye Pond?
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Last Day at Smitty’s
by Mary Serreze | Feb 14, 2010 6:10 pm | Comments (0)
Big pancakes, families, two television stations, and Smitty himself. A bittersweet morning at the heart of Bay State as the Village Store on Riverside Drive cranked up the grill for the last time. Here’s the ABC 40 report.
HampScanner Twitter Feed Launched
by Mary Serreze | Feb 4, 2010 9:30 am | Comments (0)
Much has been made, in new media circles, of the idea of “crowdsourcing” the news. In Northampton, a growing number of citizen reporters maintain twitter feeds—and post, in real time, from a cellphone or laptop, what they see, hear, or discover.
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Saving the News: McChesney and Nichols to Speak
by Mary Serreze | Feb 1, 2010 10:55 am | Comments (0)
University of Illinois Professor Robert McChesney. Photo by Brian L. Stauffer.
Robert McChesney and John Nichols will speak about their new book — The Death and Life of American Journalism — at the University of Massachusetts’ Goodell Building this evening at 5 p.m.
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Arson Benefits Galore
by Mary Serreze | Jan 21, 2010 2:41 pm | Comments (0)
Arts and Entertainment Editor Vincent Bator reports on upcoming arson benefit events at the Academy of Music, the Rendevous in Turners Falls, the Sierra Grille, and at William Baczek Fine Arts. Read More…
The Night Paradise Burned
by Sky Sutton | Jan 14, 2010 2:12 pm | Comments (2)
“An arrest comes quickly. Some people wonder if it came too quickly. I’m stunned to hear the name Anthony Baye on the radio. I don’t believe it. I must’ve heard that wrong. I run out for a paper. I call my Grandmother.”
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Volkmann, Ghiselin, Ford, and More: Start Anew on the Hotel Project
by Press Release | Jan 8, 2010 7:38 am | Comments (2)
Hmm. It’s easy for Mayor Higgins to ignore the young and artsy Hoopers Against the Hilton (Die Hilton Die!!! on YouTube), but when Northampton’s boomer-gen good-government crowd takes a stand, watch out. Former City Councilor Alex Ghiselin, former Mayor Mary Ford, Zoning Revision Committee Chairperson Joel Russell, and more are asking city officials to stop extending deadlines to the developer of the the proposed downtown Hilton Garden Inn and to “develop a process for determining how the land can best be used and designed based on good practices and full public participation.”
Read their call to action, dated January 7, 2010, below the fold.
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Purple Bags and the Strong Arm of the Law
by Mary Serreze | Jan 7, 2010 10:56 pm | Comments (1)
We started seeing them in Northampton neighborhoods last fall—the purple plastic bags. The bags contain an advertising supplement distributed by The Springfield Republican. Problem is, the distribution has been willy-nilly. The bags seem to have been shot from a roving potato gun. The bags are everywhere—in the street, on sidewalks, in driveways, peeking out of old snowbanks, and embedded in the dirt beneath foundation plantings.
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Meet the Press: An Occasional Series
by Mary Serreze | Jan 7, 2010 4:32 pm | Comments (1)
Who are the people who bring you the news? There are a lot of good reporters covering Northampton and the region. Here’s James Lowe from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, waiting outside of Courtroom 1 at Hampshire District Court….
Images from a Vigil
by Paul Shoul | Jan 3, 2010 11:48 am | Comments (0)
“I knew Paulie and Paul [Yeskie]—they were my late husband’s uncle,” Bernadette Giblin told the crowd. “They were citizens of Northampton; they lived by the river… They were both tremendous builders— Paul Senior a bricklayer, and young Paul a casketmaker… in the past week we have also come to learn how they were builders of relationships.”
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Vigil for Paul and Paulie Yeskie
by Mary Serreze | Jan 3, 2010 9:49 am | Comments (0)
Video courtesy of North Street Neighborhood Association.
Paul and Paulie Yeskie, an 81-year-old man and his 39-year-old mentally disabled son, died when their 17 Fair Street home was set on fire on Decemeber 27. Late Saturday afternoon, as the sun was going down, a group gathered in front of the First Churches at 129 Main Street in Northampton to memorialize the lives of the Yeskies. Bernadette Giblin, whose late husband was nephew to the elder Yeskie, spoke.
New Year’s Eve in Northampton
by Guest Columnist | Jan 2, 2010 9:05 pm | Comments (0)
Video by Jim Neil. Neil blogs at Life in the NohoDome.
Saint Mary’s to Stay Open Through Epiphany
by Mary Serreze | Jan 1, 2010 1:46 am | Comments (0)
A letter dated November 4, 2009, from The Most Reverend Timothy A. McDonnell, Bishop of Springfield, to Father William Hamilton and the parishioners of St. Mary’s Church on Elm Street, delivered the news: the Sacred Heart Church on King Street will house a new, consolidated parish, and the grand church known as St. Mary’s will close. Final Mass will be said on January 3, 2010, the Feast of the Epiphany. The new parish will come into existence on Monday, January 4.
O’Donnell wrote that on All Souls Day, he received a report on three Northampton Catholic churches outlining necessary repairs as well as parking and accessibility considerations. After consulting with Diocesan officials, a decision was made to reverse an earlier decision that would have consolidated the parish at St. Mary’s and closed Sacred Heart instead.
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First Night Northampton: Stay Safe and Have Fun
by Guest Columnist | Dec 31, 2009 6:51 pm | Comments (0)