Investigations
Mayor Ginny Desorgher appointed Todd Dodge as police chief on Tuesday. The Shoestring investigates Dodge’s past and present as a Greenfield officer.
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Investigations
With its hollow rules, ethical dilemmas, and reluctance to address a lack of transparency and other problems, the Governor’s Council has no clothes.
Education
The university’s change of course follows The Shoestring’s reporting on the potential charges and renewed pushback from faculty and staff.
Investigations
Trespassing arrests have recently doubled at Holyoke’s most policed apartment complexes. Unlike most, Osvaldo Soto-Berrios decided to fight his case.
Education
The fallout continues from UMass' protest encampment crackdown. Records show the police response cost at least tens of thousands of dollars.
Community
With new parks in planning stages, some question when long overdue building upgrades will be prioritized for the parks department.
Housing
A much needed broker fee ban in Northampton has been stalled at the state level for years. Now, it could become law statewide.
Labor
As negotiations for a first contract continued into a third year, employees at the Northampton immigration law firm learned this month they would be...
Community
The Gazette says it will restore years' worth of articles that disappeared. Experts say the issue highlights a bigger problem: the impermanence of online...
Housing
The town's rent control board will continue to take public comment on the proposed 43% rent increase later this month.
Labor
With negotiations underway for a first contract, the union says the college withheld raises. Smith has fired back with unfair labor practice charges of...
Labor
Trulieve will pay a $350,000 fine over the 2022 death Lorna McMurrey, a worker at the company's Holyoke grow facility.