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By The Shoestring For Better or For Morse On August 7th, the UMass Amherst Daily Collegian reported on a letter sent by the UMass...
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Police
How executive indifference, an overburdened board, and a sensationalist media are failing the promise of parole in the commonwealth.
Politics
Walter Gunn has acknowledged wrongdoing, but has yet to step down from the board.
Education
Activists continue to call for UMass to divest from war profiteers and drop charges against demonstrators.
Education
Three candidates are vying for two at-large school committee seats in a tight race on Tuesday as the schools face a budget crunch.
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By The Shoestring In 2017, the Northampton Police Department received a grant from the retailer Wal-Mart to produce baseball style trading cards to be...
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Regular Media Criticism from The Shoestring In a media column, The Shoestring will reflect on recent local news. No Justice, No Peace, Cheerleading the...
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The forced relationship between local policing and customer service. By Keira Abernathy The weeks since the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have...
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Dozens gather to mark printing workers’ last shift change By Sarah Robertson NORTHAMPTON—Dozens gathered outside the Daily Hampshire Gazette office Monday evening to mark...
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By Sarah Robertson NORTHAMPTON—Last month Newspapers of New England announced the closure of the printing press at their flagship Northampton newspaper, and the termination...
City Council
I Go to City Council Meetings #33 Public comment, police review commission, financial orders By Brian Z. Zayatz On Thursday, July 9th, the Northampton...
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By Jack Chelgren As uprisings continue around the world following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and many other Black and...
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Property mogul Eric Suher sends a letter to Police Chief Jody Kasper By The Shoestring On June 6th, the Shoestring submitted a public records...
City Council
Two special meetings on the Policing Review Commission and open meeting law complaints, respectively By Brian Z. Zayatz On Tuesday, June 23rd, the Northampton...
City Council
The Council voted to cut the police budget by 10%. The Mayor and Councilor Sciarra unveiled a proposal to create a police reform commission....
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An abrupt pivot in local traffic signage. By Charlotte Murtishaw The thousands of carefully masked protestors flooding the streets of Northampton, Amherst, Greenfield, Springfield,...