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By BILL NEWMAN

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Grove Street resident Wendy Robinson, 82, bought her two-story home for $116,000 five years ago. As she plans to downsize, she’s participating in a new pilot program run by the housing nonprofit Leo’s Home to make repairs so the house can be sold to a first-time homebuyer.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Nothing could knock down Claudia Quintero on the day she received her green card and work permit at 17 years old — she was too elated to notice anything else.

In an era of massive uncertainty about what the future holds and immense fear about what’s in store during Donald Trump’s presidency, I’m writing in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as head of Health and Human Services, which could be a silver lining in several ways.

By SUZANNE STILLINGER

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After nearly six months of searching, Cooley Dickinson Hospital has found a new president.

By JOHN PARADIS

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The “Doomsday Clock” is moving forward.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — State legislators representing Hampshire and Franklin counties signaled that they were prepared to defend protections for immigrants, the environment and transgender people in Massachusetts as the federal administration under President Donald Trump moves to limit or scrap them.

By RICHARD FEIN

By SUSAN WOZNIAK

By SHERYL HUNTER

January is the month of new beginnings, and with the new year comes the arrival of new music. In the upcoming weeks, some popular Franklin County-based musicians playing their first local shows of 2025 where they will give audiences the chance to listen to new music before it is officially released.

By BILL NEWMAN

By RICHARD BRUNSWICK

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 years old, has often been labeled different among his presidential peers in that his legacy is tied not so much to his politics, but his heart.

The passing of President Jimmy Carter marks the end of an admirable life dedicated to service, compassion and humanity. While we mourn his loss, we can also reflect on the impact he made, even in his final chapter, by helping to shift the conversation around hospice care.

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

 I felt tears pricking my eyes. “We’re just talking in circles now,” he said, as he got up from the sofa to leave.I’d been crying a lot the past week and a half after the first guy I had ever seriously dated got a job offer that he needed — a job...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Sue Stubbs isn’t afraid of taking risks — in fact, she welcomes it.In the 1980s, near the beginning of Stubb’s 44-year career as ServiceNet’s CEO, there weren’t any homeless shelters to serve Northampton’s unsheltered population. The...

By CARRIE N. BAKER

In November 2022, a group of anti-abortion doctors and a dentist filed a lawsuit in Amarillo, Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000. They asked the court to ban the medication...