Rather than spending your Saturday night at a sweaty basement party or in the Carroll Room, take an eight-minute walk downtown to local Northampton venue…
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When you conjure up a mental image of a “professional banjo player,” a 17-year-old young woman from Brooklyn may not be exactly who comes to…
At first it was easy to give up my normal life in hopes of quelling the surge of disease that spread across the country. Weeks…
Smith College students marched through the streets of downtown Northampton backed by a chorus of honking cars as they chanted, “We don’t want a prison nation, stop mass incarceration!” on Saturday, Dec. 4.
Northampton mayoral candidates responded to a survey about racial equity and their plans to address racism in schools, policing and the local community.
REAL (Racial Equity and Learning) Northampton is an organization funded by the Northampton Education Foundation that works to create an anti-racist culture in Northampton public schools (NPS). In October, REAL distributed a survey to the mayoral candidates Gina-Louise Sciaara and Marc Warner about their views on racial equity and what they would do to further that agenda if elected. The full questionnaire is available to read on REAL Northampton’s website.
In Northampton, MA the preliminary election is quickly approaching and mayoral candidates continue their fight to make it on the municipal election ballot.
The Northampton Policing Review Commission (NPRC), created by the Northampton Mayor and City Council, released its recommendations for reforming “the current organizational and oversight structures, municipal funding allocations, and policies and ordinances” of the Northampton policing system. The creation of a “new Department of Community Care” should be a top priority according to the NPRC.
“Hi there Billy, I am the one that took your sign,” began local student Zahra Ashe-Simmer’s open letter to a Northampton community Facebook page, where she sparked nearly one thousand comments about a controversial yard sign commissioned by Northampton resident Billy Park.
In a March 27 tweet, President McCartney announced that Smith, in partnership with Cooley Dickinson Hospital, is donating on-campus housing “to support the hospital’s needs…
I've read last Friday's letter from President McCartney and the Board of Trustees with a plan for divestment from fossil fuels. I find it concerning.