The Vermonter, the new Amtrak rail line with a route that includes stops in Northampton, Springfield, Greenfield and Holyoke, made its inaugural voyage on Monday. The train's first travelers told ...

It was devastating to Schneider, then a senior, at the time because he wanted to go out with the first Northampton district title since 1937 when Pete Schneider, his father, was a junior and the ...

Students arrive for their first day of the school year Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, at Colonel John Siegfried Elementary School in Northampton. Student Alexcia Stefanick arrives for the first day of the ...

NORTHAMPTON — Thirty-nine years of lighting up the early winter dark. Of revelry. And music and juggling, of course. For nearly four decades, First Night Northampton has celebrated New Year’s ...

First Night Northampton, the city’s annual New Year’s Eve festival, will return this year on Tuesday, Dec. 31, from noon to midnight, celebrating its 40th anniversary.The event will feature ...

A New Year’s Eve tradition continues in western Massachusetts next week, with First Night Northampton ringing in 2025 on Tuesday. Times Square has its ball drop and Hotel Northampton has its ...

It belongs to First Churches of Northampton, whose entrance features a flagstone from an earlier meeting house where legendary Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards presided in 1737.