Anthony Cammalleri

Rep. Jim McGovern introduced the Fair Seeds for Farmers Act to limit seed patents and protect farmers' rights to share seeds.

In an effort to mitigate flood damage at Maine's Field after frequent flooding damaged its roadways and softball field, the Department of Parks and Recreation is planning a large-scale renovation of the park and seeking the community's input in re-vamping the more than century-old public facility.Neighbors met with Parks and Recreation staff, alongside engineers from Fuss & O'Neill at the Maine's Field Pavilion Tuesday afternoon, where numerous posters depicting potential park amenities, such as play equipment, gazebos, swing sets, bathrooms and shade structures, stood on display. Residents were given sheets of red and green stickers to place on the posters to signal approval or disapproval of each idea. While more natural designs, such as plots of flowers or wooden shade structures were scattered with green stickers, larger artificial structures were generally given red stickers by those present."I think we need some kind of treatment for the road so there's not so much dust. I come [to this park] for the trees, I don't come for the recreation ... I do enjoy seeing when people are here, but I don't want to see many more people here," said resident Wendy Foxman. "I really want them to keep this [renovation] as simple and natural as possible."

Louis Polisson settling in as new senior leader at Congregation B'nai Israel

NORTHAMPTON — After more than three years of planning and construction, Danielle McKahn, of Northampton, has completed development of nine single-family homes on the newly created Paintbox Lane, off Day Avenue.

NORTHAMPTON — For decades, families have used the Mill River near the Orange Dam in Leeds as a summer swimming hole, and neighbors have complained to police about the noise and litter that come with it. Once again this summer, city officials are asking beachgoers to keep noise down and carry out their trash.

NORTHAMPTON — With the start of the 2026-2027 school year less than a month away, the district's new superintendent, Annie Azarloza, is gearing up for her first year at the helm of Northampton Public Schools.

NORTHAMPTON — They lined up out the door of 180 Main St. Wednesday afternoon — supporters, skeptics and the simply curious — all eager for a look at final design plans for the long-planned and controversial $43.3 million downtown redesign known as Picture Main Street.

BOSTON — More than three years after 19-year-old Northampton High School graduate Jesse Johansmeyer was fatally struck by a pickup truck and left to die leaving a bonfire party in Hatfield, his mother testified before legislators Friday morning in support of a proposed bill that would legally compel bystanders to call 911 in the event of an emergency.

A Massachusetts mother testifies for 'Jesse's Law,' a bill requiring bystanders to call 911 during life-threatening emergencies.

Hampshire Superior Court Judge Charles Groce III found Angel Ramos guilty of 13 counts of aggravated rape of a child; three counts of forcible rape of a child; six counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14; two counts of aggravated intimidation of a witness; and one count each of posing or exhibiting a child in a state of nudity; trafficking a person under 18 for sexual servitude; open and gross lewdness; and assault with intent to rape.