NORTHAMPTON A planned Community Resilience Hub in the works since 2019 may finally have a building to host it.Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra announced Friday that the city has executed an option to purchase the former First Baptist Church building,.
NORTHAMPTON Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra has introduced changes to the city’s administrative code that would formally establish the Community Care Department under the umbrella of the Health Department, which would be rebranded with a new name that.
Residents of the Marina Palace home for the elderly in Msida are being relocated to other homes after the authorities ordered its closure due to substandard con
NORTHAMPTON Candidates in four City Council races are planning to participate Wednesday and Thursday in forums on the topic of racial justice, sponsored by Northampton Abolition Now and Western Mass Showing Up for Racial Justice.The at-large.
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Should the many recommendations of the Policing Review Commission in Northampton be seriously considered? Absolutely.
Clearly, there are a number of new approaches to addressing the safety needs of people in our community that should be fully explored. However, aren’t calls to substantially cut the police budget even further premature?
Isn’t there more data that we need, such as how many police calls are there by category and which ones should be answered by the police or other staff, etc.? And what about other questions related to the programmatic and budgetary advantages and disadvantages of a separate Community Care Department?