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EASTHAMPTON —The city is making a concerted effort to create a safer walk to Mountain View School with new access ramps and sidewalks along South Street.Crews from Warner Brothers of Sunderland, who have been contracted by the city, have been...

EASTHAMPTON — Plans for a new skate park in the city have hit a significant snag, as new environmental concerns for the proposed downtown location are making it likely that skateboarders won’t be “dropping in” there anytime soon.“Based on our initial...

EASTHAMPTON — The outlook of an ongoing city project is getting clearer as the Mount Tom North Trailhead Park nears completion. Since the fall of 2021, the city has been constructing a trail system and recreation area on a 23-acre parcel of land off...

EASTHAMPTON — Preliminary plans for the city’s first official skate park, behind the Municipal Building on Payson Avenue, are set to be unveiled next week.For nearly three years, Easthampton Skatepark organizer Angie Falkowski and her group have been...

EASTHAMPTON — The world’s largest coffee chain plans to add another shop in western Massachusetts this summer.The city’s Planning Board has unanimously approved a special permit to construct and operate a drive-thru Starbucks. The shop would be built...

EASTHAMPTON — The city may “kick-flip” its recreational offerings now that funding has been secured to design a skate park on Payson Avenue.For nearly three years, a group of skateboarders have been working to carve out a space in the city to create a...

EASTHAMPTON — One of the city’s major thoroughfares is about to get a major overhaul.From a complete underground replacement of gas, sewer and water utilities to the installation of new handicapped-accessible sidewalks, Union Street will soon undergo...

EASTHAMPTON — Turning left at the intersection of Ferry and Parsons streets isn’t always advised. Oftentimes, those who slowly inch forward past the stop sign on Ferry Street are met with a line of oncoming traffic from Parsons Street.But future...

EASTHAMPTON – The City Council’s Ordinance Committee and the Planning Board will host a public hearing on Dec. 14 to discuss changes to language regarding the city’s Smart Growth Overlay District.

EASTHAMPTON — When Marjorie Zaik walked through the New City neighborhood this past weekend, she looked at a completely different neighborhood from the one she grew up in.In the 1960s and ’70s, Parsons Street had three grocery stores and a drug store....