Country Comfort is moving this week from its location on Center Street to a new location at 153 Main St., across from the former McCallum’s. William Trager, who owns the clothing and handicraft store with his wife, Eva, said that Country Comfort will open at its new location on Thursday.
Parents of some 300 area children have pledged to send them to St. Michael’s next year if the schools are kept open. The pledges were collected by the schools’ Mr. and Mrs. Club, which launched the enrollment drive Saturday. Despite the campaign, however, a diocesan official said today that no plans have been made to reconsider the decision to close the schools in June.
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Northampton appears to be experiencing a mini-building boom, with four multi-home proposals under consideration, including a subdivision off Burts Pit Road submitted last week. Called The Plantation at West Farms, that proposal would locate about 30 homes on a 49.5-acre parcel between Burts Pit Road and Route 66.
Reductions in high school busing and custodial services across the district are among the first cuts the Northampton school department is considering to meet its goal of eliminating about $1 million from the school budget. The mayor’s office has asked all city departments to cut their budgets by five percent, in anticipation of reduced state aid and climbing health insurance costs.
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There is no task force charged with studying academic rigor at Northampton’s middle and high schools, nor has there been official talk of forming one. But the idea of such an effort has sparked debate in the city. The misunderstanding stemmed, in part, from a Facebook post on the “Challenge All Students” page created two years ago in the aftermath of cutting honors courses at the high school.
Since Uber came to western Massachusetts last April, demand has continued to grow. There are now about 1,000 drivers and 17,000 “active riders” — users who have taken a trip in the past three months, an Uber spokesperson said. Much of Uber’s local activity centers in Amherst.