50 Years Ago ■Four trees on the Northampton Junior College campus were the subject of vandalism last night, with two maple trees chopped down completely, a third halfway chopped through, and a large old elm tree ringed. College president Richard.
Maura Healey is backing former lieutenant governor nominee Steve Kerrigan to succeed Gus Bickford as chair of the state party in one of her first major political power plays as governor.
Becket Select Board member Michael Lavery is running for state representative, and he is taking on the county’s longest-tenured state lawmaker. Lavery is running as a Green-Rainbow Party candidate against
In redistricting, the districts represented by U.S. Reps. Richard Neal and Jim McGovern likely would trade towns in an exchange that, observers say, bolsters both incumbents’ reelection hopes.