Northampton will hold preliminary election in September >Published: 7/28/2021 8:39:23 PM
NORTHAMPTON The city will hold a preliminary election on Sept. 28 to narrow the field of candidates for mayor in November’s election to two.
City Clerk Pamela Powers confirmed Wednesday that a preliminary election will be necessary after three mayoral candidates were certified for the November ballot Shanna Fishel, Roy Martin and Gina-Louise Sciarra.
The Board of Registrars also has certified Rosechana Gordon’s voter signatures, but she has yet to pick up her nomination papers from the registrars and bring them to the city clerk’s office. If that happens by the deadline of Aug. 13, she will be added to the preliminary ballot.
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Second candidate announces bid for Northampton council’s Ward 4 seat >Published: 6/30/2021 8:33:49 PM
NORTHAMPTON Garrick Perry, a South Street resident and manager of the downtown music venue Bishop’s Lounge, has announced his candidacy for City Council in Ward 4.
Perry’s announcement sets up a contest for the seat. Jesse Hassinger, co-owner of the Belly of the Beast restaurant, declared his candidacy for the Ward 4 seat in April.
Perry, 42, performs under the name “Force” as the vocalist for the hip-hop/reggae band The Alchemystics. Perry, a married father of two children who attend Northampton schools, said he moved to Ward 4 after graduating from Amherst College 20 years ago.
A large banner laid on the ground near the front steps of Northampton City Hall on Tuesday, exactly a year from when George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, was murdered at the hands of a former police officer on May 25, 2020. The sign was largely blank at the beginning of the memorial. By the end of the event, though, the banner had virtually no empty space left on it. Written on the white .
A large banner laid on the ground near the front steps of Northampton City Hall on Tuesday, exactly a year from when George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, was murdered at the hands of a former police officer on May 25, 2020. The sign was largely blank at the beginning of the memorial. By the end of the event, though, the banner had virtually no empty space left on it. Written on the white .