NORTHAMPTON Joining a chorus of others, the city’s Arts Council voted last week to sign on to demands by the group Northampton Abolition Now and support cuts to the city’s Police Department budget. The demands ask for the immediate reallocation of.
Pioneer Valley veterans meal program restarting with drive-thrus
From left, Henry Matuszko, Eugene Waskiwicz, Earl Mason, and Tom Patrick at the World War II Club in Northampton for the Wednesday lunch put on by Building Bridges for Veterans in November 2018. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 10/25/2020 8:09:38 PM
NORTHAMPTON A free meal program for veterans that had been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic will resume serving food at new drive-up locations beginning in early November. The drive-thru meal program will kick off on Nov. 4 from noon to 1 p.m. in the parking lot of the Daily Hampshire Gazette at 115 Conz St., according to Chad Wright, associate director of Building Bridges Veterans Initiative, which is organizing the program. The program will be in this parking lot from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month, Wright said.
NORTHAMPTON In traveling to Pulaski Park on Sunday, Ashwin Ravikumar, a volunteer with Northampton Abolition Now, said he noticed signs of new life, like cherry blossom trees.But, the joy of spring was “muted by the rage I feel,” he told a crowd of.
Northampton City Council OKs funds for kennel, but neighbors oppose proposed site
Northampton City Hall, 2019.
Published: 4/18/2021 7:46:48 PM
NORTHAMPTON When the city’s animal control officer or a police officer has an animal, like a lost dog, there is no city-owned space to temporarily house it. That may soon change, as the city has found a possible location for an animal control facility.
“We’ve had a series of temporary arrangements,” Mayor David Narkewicz said.
These included contracting with the town of Amherst to be able to use their facility, but that meant driving dogs to Amherst and having to go back and forth to take care of them, he said. “We really need to have our own facility.”
Cannabis conflict: Hempest’s move into recreational marijuana causes trouble for co-owner’s family
The Hempest on Conz Street in Northampton. The store recently added recreational marijuana to its offerings, a move that caused trouble for co-owner Jonathan Napoli’s wife, Kim Napoli, who lost her job as director of corporate and social responsibility at Parallel, parent company of the New England Treatment Access dispensary just down the street. STAFF PHOTO/GRETA JOCHEM
Published: 4/14/2021 7:48:43 PM
NORTHAMPTON When Hempest co-owner Jonathan Napoli got state approval a few months back to begin selling recreational marijuana at his Conz Street store, he figured it would be a simple transition. For years the shop had sold products made from cannabis plants, including hemp products.