Barbara Pomeroy News Today

NORTHAMPTON — The city of Northampton has finalized an acquisition of 229 acres to add to its Saw Mill Hills Greenway, connecting two previously separated areas used for outdoor recreational activities.The city completed the purchase on April 5 for a...

NORTHAMPTON — Some $1.23 million in Community Preservation Act money approved by the City Council last week will go toward 11 projects, including affordable housing downtown and in Leeds, outdoor recreation and improvements to the Northampton...

A 1953 photo by North Adams Transcript photographer Randy Trabold has Barbara Pomeroy, then Barbara Slade Armstrong, showing off some of her Christmas display creations. Screenshot by Kevin Moran Back in the 1950s, the annual outdoor Christmas displays outside the Slade family home up in Clarksburg were so popular, they often resulted in traffic jams. Think of it: Traffic jams. In Clarksburg. In fact, on Christmas night 1953, the Slades returned home from their o...