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Hope on Wheels project aims to help homeless Melinda Shaw of Florence and BJ Church of Northampton work on assembling a Humanity Pod as part of a project to provide the local unhoused population with a modular live-in unit, Saturday in Northampton, MA. BJ Church of Northampton attaches a puncture-resistant wheel to a Humanity Pod, a modular sleeper and storage camper, at her garage in Northampton, MA. Melinda Shaw of Florence and BJ Church of Northampton spend a Saturday morning building a prototype Humanity Pod as part of an effort to provide local unhoused residents with DIY modular live-in...

Hope on Wheels project aims to help homeless Melinda Shaw of Florence and BJ Church of Northampton work on assembling a humanity pod as part of a project to provide the local homeless population with a modular live-in unit. FOR THE GAZETTE/SABATO VISCONTI BJ Church of Northampton attaches a puncture-resistant wheel to a humanity pod, a modular sleeper and storage camper, at her garage in Northampton. FOR THE GAZETTE/SABATO VISCONTI Melinda Shaw of Florence and BJ Church of Northampton spend a Saturday morning building a prototype humanity pod as part of an effort to provide local homeless res...

Who will lead Northampton next? With Mayor David Narkewicz announcing he won’t seek 4th term, race opens up Updated Jan 09, 2021; Posted Jan 09, 2021 Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz speaks at a naturalization ceremony held on the grounds of the Hampshire County Courthouse. (Don Treeger/The Republican) Facebook Share After serving for nearly a decade as the chief public official of Hampshire County’s largest city, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz announced earlier this week he won’t be seeking reelection come November, leaving residents to speculate who his likely successor will be....

STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING Published: 12/31/2020 7:25:06 PM As 2020 comes to a close, we look back at a year that will live on for generations. It was a time when we came to learn about social distancing. Businesses, schools and communities struggled to keep pace as they worked to adapt. Families reeled from the loss of loved one, often times without ever getting a chance to say goodbye. How can this year possibly be told through a select few images? In selecting their photos of the year, our photographers put their fo...

3 months ago in Local Denise Vozella Photo: WHMP (Undated) — More than half the cities and towns in Massachusetts are now listed as at high risk for the coronavirus. The number has ticked up over the course of the past week. Elsewhere in New England, a federal food box program set to end with the year is being taken over by Vermont Foodbank. It plans to fund it through February. Schools across Maine are reporting dips in academic performance during the coronavirus pandemic. And in Rhode Island, the positivi...