Mike’s Maze design in Sunderland celebrates 100 years of television

At long last, construction of Easthampton's new skate park to begin

EASTHAMPTON — Construction of the city’s long-awaited skate and all-wheels park will begin this month at Millside Park after a final fundraising push brought the project to full funding this summer. Fundraising efforts, and the project as a whole, have been spearheaded by the Easthampton Skatepark Committee. Leading into the summer, the group hoped to raise […]

Healey order subjects proposed data centers to local approvals

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday subjecting proposed data center projects to local approval before developers can move on to state permitting, representing her administration’s latest crackdown on the facilities after halting tax breaks earlier this summer. As the artificial intelligence boom marches on, pending data centers in Massachusetts will now […]

Philanthropist donates $431,000 to support artists in the Valley 

A few years ago, philanthropist Martha Richards needed to figure out what to do with nearly half a million dollars. She’d talked to the board of her Northampton-based nonprofit, WomenArts, about how she wanted to slow its operations down because of her age, but that meant she needed to figure out what to do with […]

Arts Briefs: Graham Nash at the Academy of Music

Graham Nash at the Academy of Music Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, will perform at the Academy of Music in Northampton on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. Nash’s concert will be a retrospective of his six decades in music, including his time in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Crosby, Stills & […]

Guest columnist James A. Lomastro: We have had enough of ageism

Older people have had enough of being treated as problems to be managed, obstacles to generational change, or easy targets for political campaigns. We see it in national politics, in local and statewide campaigns, and throughout the business community. A person’s age is repeatedly used as shorthand for incompetence, technological confusion, resistance to change, or […]