Kevin Gutting
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Northampton, MA, United States
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Through our lens: Mustang Munchkin
EASTHAMPTON – Betty-Anne Gould of Westhampton has been delivering meals to homebound seniors for eight years – and for all that time, she’s had the company of her Shih Tzu, Munchkin, now 12.Gould started out making visits with the Meals on Wheels... → Read More
Take and Eat program delivers meals on weekends
EASTHAMPTON — For several hours on most Saturday mornings, the kitchen of Our Lady of the Valley Parish in Easthampton is a-buzz with volunteers cooking and preparing meals to deliver to about 90 area homebound elderly. The program, Take and Eat, was... → Read More
Through Our Lens: Normal isn’t how we roll
Five months into this pandemic (is there any other?) and life continues to churn on — in some ways resembling, more or less, a little of the life we knew before March. It’s a bit premature, but I’m almost ready to drop the “new” from the “new normal.”... → Read More
Photo: Instant color
NORTHAMPTON — Mady Lacaprucia of Northampton trained her modified Polaroid SX-70 on a flower garden in Childs Park in Northampton on Friday. With the adaptations to her instant camera, she’s able to control the shutter speed and use a higher-speed... → Read More
Photos: Chill effort brings freezer to Leverett Co-op
LEVERETT — Leverett Village Co-op volunteers picked up a display freezer from the Atkins Farms Country Market’s former satellite store in North Amherst on Wednesday and, in a marathon effort, managed to squeeze it through the front door of the... → Read More
Hundreds rally for Black trans lives
NORTHAMPTON – About 300 people took part in a Black Trans Lives Matter march on Saturday that looped from Sheldon Field through downtown and back again with a stop on the steps of city hall for a program of speakers.Kevin Gutting can be reached at... → Read More
Photos: Open stage
SOUTH HADLEY – John Knutsen and Becki Lijek and their children, Una, 3 1/2, and Finn, 1, stopped to play in the Richard Glenn Gettell Amphitheater during their walk around the Mount Holyoke College Campus on Saturday morning. Lijek is an assistant... → Read More
Tennis return
AMHERST – Ana Villalobos of Amherst played tennis with her son, Amherst Regional junior Avi Villalobos-Sharone, at the Mill River Recreation Area courts in North Amherst in comfortable temps and a light drizzle Saturday morning.Kevin Gutting can be... → Read More
Photo: Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
HOLYOKE – Palmer Paving was in the second day of resurfacing Dwight Street near city hall on Friday. Roller operator Justine Tetreault was part of the large crew working on the incline between Front and High Streets.Kevin Gutting can be reached at... → Read More
Photos: Garden party, with brass
FLORENCE – Local street “honk” heroes, the Expandable Brass Band, staked out responsibly distanced spots around the vegetable garden of tubaist Dave Abbott for an early evening practice on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – much to the enjoyment of neighbors... → Read More
Timing is everything: Scene during a squall
This was one of those times when you say, “I can’t not take that picture.”Driving back from a long day in Amherst last week, I had already made one unplanned stop. Often — very often — when I’m driving through my regular haunts, on something... → Read More
Through our lens: Stars, stripes and sacrifice
Memorial Day was quite different this year. The Florence parade, in its 152nd year, was still held, though scaled down and not advertised in order to discourage large gatherings. But I had a different type of “memorial” assignment last week as I... → Read More
Through our lens: Not all heroes wear capes
This past week seemed busier than many, at least in my appropriately masked world. I got to see the JFK Middle School cafeteria and kitchen as the bustling focal point for the Northampton School's emergency feeding program during the COVID-19... → Read More
Photos: The St. Patrick’s Parade that never happened
CHICOPEE — Brandon Sullivan loves going to parades, especially the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade and according to his mother, Denise Sullivan, he’s always joked, “I want to have one come by our house.” Denise Sullivan said Brandon has a developmental... → Read More
Spring is here: Magnolia blossoms are blooming, along with daffodils and more
Spring has arrived and was visible in near-full force to residents of Northampton and Florence out for some exercise on Wednesday morning. Yellow daffodils have been the heralds of color, but now the pinks and fluffy whites of blooming magnolia and... → Read More
Through our lens: Images from the pandemic
The one universal change I’ve noticed in the progression of pictures that we at the Gazette have taken since the start of this pandemic is a marked increase in, and prevalence of, social distancing. That should more accurately be described as physical... → Read More
Photo: Catching up
FLORENCE – Ollie Lawton and Ella Payne, both juniors at Northampton High School, met in Trinity Row Park in Florence to catch up on things on Saturday afternoon, three weeks into a seven-week shutdown of public schools in the commonwealth.Kevin... → Read More
Photos: A friendly howl and howdy
NORTHAMPTON — There were smiles all around when Jonathan Weil and his daughter, Maddie, 7½, prompted their dogs, Soupy, 10, and Maisie, 12, into a howling song for neighbor Jared Kajka and his daughters, Alison, 6, and Emily, 9, during a walk down... → Read More
Photos: UMass move out underway
AMHERST – University of Massachusetts Amherst students retrieved belongings from their rooms in Gorman, Brett, Oak, Sycamore and Prince Houses on Saturday during a staggered move-out process organized by the university. The moves come after in-person... → Read More
Photo: Grab and go
NORTHAMPTON – On Thursday, Northampton Public Schools started its free bagged lunch and breakfast program for all school-aged children 18 or younger, dispersing the meals from familiar bright yellow school buses parked at four locations: Hampshire... → Read More