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Published: 6/27/2021 8:12:37 PM
AMHERST A festival of the arts and music was held on the Town Common Sunday, in what was one of the first in-person shows since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for many of the artists and performers there.
“After the pandemic it’s nice to see,” said Ann Tweedy, chairwoman of the Amherst Center Cultural District Steering Committee, a chief organizer of the event.
The celebration took place from noon to 6 p.m. and featured paintings, metalworking, live music and photography. Entrance to the festival was free, as was the water that was handed out in the hot weather.
Published: 4/9/2021 2:56:31 PM
NORTHAMPTON Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old Serio’s Market storefront on State Street in Northampton.
The spot was ideal, complete with parking. “We were working on floor plans and everything,” he said. “Then COVID hit.”
Surrounded by so much economic uncertainty, Muller scrapped those plans entirely. Instead of staying in downtown Northampton, where he’s run Guild Art Supply for 37 years, he made the tough decision last year to move the store and framing shop to his press space in Easthampton.