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The Transportation Committee has repeatedly summoned transit agency leader Dorval Carter Jr., but he has ignored them, sending underlings instead.

A new management regime and a 72-year-old law banning cockerels from the nations allotments mean they all face the chop. This comes after a Yorkshire allotment change in ownership.

NORTHAMPTON — Jim’s Variety, the convenience store at 15 West Farms Road in Florence, was fined $1,000 and faces a suspension of its tobacco sales permit after an Oct. 3 inspection uncovered flavored tobacco products hidden behind the counter.At a...

The changes include in some cases slight increases to the scheduled time between train runs

NORTHAMPTON — The cost of expanding, renovating and reconfiguring Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Emergency Department has risen nearly 25% since last year, leaving boosters to shore up funding ahead of a groundbreaking in the spring, while the existing...

CTA is planning no changes to base fares or pass prices in 2023, as ridership remains below pre-pandemic levels

The CTA also released a $3.4 billion, five-year capital improvement plan which looks to invest in major projects such as the Red Line extension and modernize CTA’s bus fleet and railroad cars.

The CTA released its proposed 2023 budget Thursday that keeps all services, avoids fare hikes and retains discounted prices on certain passes that were implemented in last year’s budget.

NORTHAMPTON — A Belchertown man was sentenced to 5 to 7 years in state prison on Monday after he was found guilty of rape, strangulation, suffocation and two counts of assault and battery.Erik L. Wheeler, 42, was convicted after a 10-day trial,...

HADLEY — An anti-eviction protester is charged with multiple felonies after allegedly siccing several hives of bees on sheriff’s deputies last week in an act that officials said put lives at risk.Rorie S. Woods, 55, of 29 Golden Court in Hadley, was...