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NORTHAMPTON — This fall, a new chapter will begin in the history of Northampton, when Richard Cooper sells State Street Fruit Store and Cooper’s Corner to employee Michael Natale.State Street and Cooper’s Corner are longtime family businesses that...
NORTHAMPTON — Every time that David Murphy faced a challenge to his tenure as Elector Under the Oliver Smith Will, his opponent received nine votes or less. That is, until Mary “Mimi” Odgers unseated Murphy in Tuesday’s city election with 3,278 votes...
College’s donation expands Hatfield Historical Museum’s Sophia Smith collection Kathie Gow, curator of the Hatfield Historical Museum, holds a triptych with Sophia Smith in the middle and pictures of the homestead on Main Street in Hatfield on either side. This item was one recently donated by Smith College to the museum. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Kathy Gow, curator of the Hatfield Historical Museum, talks about two items, the brass tray and candlewick trimmer along with a candle holder which were part of the Sophia Smith collection owned by Smith College. The college recently donated the ...
Around Amherst: Human Rights Day art by eighth graders shown online By SCOTT MERZBACH AMHERST — Poetry and visual art that eighth graders at the Amherst Regional Middle School have annually displayed in the atrium of the Jones Library to recognize Human Rights Day will be shown online this year. As Human Rights Day is being marked by town officials with the adoption of a proclamation and the reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the Town Common this week — a small, in-person and socially distanced candlelight vigil was set for Thursday — other activities timed to the d...