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🌱 How a former Northampton golf course is being rewilded with millions
Also check out Bar Lavi Hebrew School on the Northampton Patch calendar
Good morning to you Northampton! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a former Northampton golf course is being rewilded with millions
- How a $28,000 gift will support vulnerable families around Northampton
- How a Northampton residency helped launch this bold one-woman Hamlet
Also on today's calendar: Bar Lavi Hebrew School and 6 more events.
Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: A stray afternoon t-shower, with a high of 78 and low of 55 degrees.
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 82, low: 57.
- Thursday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 79 and low of 66 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. State grants $2.8 million to restore Northampton's Nashawannuck Brook (wwlp.com) — Northampton just secured a $2.8 million state climate resilience grant to advance the Rocky Hill Greenway and Nashawannuck Brook restoration on the former Pine Grove Golf Course. The next phase will restore wetlands, expand accessible trails and boardwalks, and add over 7,000 climate-adapted trees and shrubs, with volunteers expected to help transform the site into cooler, greener public space. 
2. Eversource Foundation donates $28,000 to United Way Franklin & Hampshire Region (wwlp.com) — From its Northampton base, the United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region has received $28,000 from the Eversource Foundation and employees to bolster local health, education, and financial stability programs. The gift is part of a much larger, multi-state United Way campaign and underscores how corporate donations and employee volunteering help sustain social services for families across Hampshire County.
3. SWEET PRINCE Northeast Tour to Launch Fall 2026 with… (broadwayworld.com) — A new one-woman, interactive Hamlet adaptation was workshopped at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton back in 2025 and is now heading out on a Northeast tour. While the fall 2026 run only visits Boston, Scranton, New York City, and Portland, it showcases how Northampton's arts spaces are quietly helping incubate inventive regional theater projects.
4. On Creating a Non-Binary Buffy & a Crypt of Queens in the Closet: A Conversation with Dom&Ink (therumpus.net) — A Northampton–based interviewer sits down over Zoom with British illustrator Dom&Ink to talk about their new queer, horror-comedy graphic novel Queens of the Crypt. The conversation digs into non-binary representation, horror's current boom, and how campy monsters, librarians, and small haunted towns can help young readers explore identity and resilience.
📸 Around Northampton
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Northampton
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- Queer Voices Book Group Meeting
Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA 01062
7:00 pm - VIRTUAL: Poetry Discussion:
Forbes Library 20 West St, Northampton, MA 01060
7:30 pm - STUDENTS (1-12) FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Northampton SD Northampton, MA 01060
8:00 am - HRYMCA Yoga Foundations w/ Teresa →
Northampton, MA Calendar, 67 Conz Street, Northampton
8:30 am - Sewing Group →
Northampton, MA Calendar, 67 Conz Street, Northampton
9:00 am - Tech Help with Owen →
Northampton, MA Calendar, 67 Conz Street, Northampton
10:00 am - Life Stories Workshop →
Northampton, MA Calendar, 67 Conz Street, Northampton
10:00 am - German Study Group →
Northampton, MA Calendar, 67 Conz Street, Northampton
10:00 am - Bar Lavi Hebrew School →
Chabad of Northampton, Northampton
9:00 am
Tuesday August 25
Wednesday August 26
Sunday August 30
📣 Northampton Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Big Y Shopping Trips →
Easthampton, MA Calendar, 19 Union St, Easthampton
8:30 am - Cornhole Open Play at the ECOA →
Easthampton, MA Calendar, 19 Union Street, Easthampton
9:30 am - Aldi & the Bluebonnet Diner →
Easthampton, MA Calendar Easthampton, MA 01027
10:00 am - Knitting Drop-In with Kathie →
Easthampton, MA Calendar, 19 Union Street, Easthampton
10:00 am
Tuesday August 25
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Free IKEA Daybed FRAME only.
Must pick up in Northampton. Buyer will need to carry downstairs or take apart and take out. Its nice, missing one slat, but that has not been an… (Nextdoor Northampton Ward 1) - Looking for a new eye doctor.
I have been to both my eye doctor on Pleasant st and Eye physicians of Northampton. Any other recommendations for great eye exams for prescription… (Nextdoor Downtown Florence)
- Six Flags New England posted a job opening for Fright Fest Scare Actor in Northampton. Apply here.
- Big Y Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Meat/Seafood Butcher in Northampton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Northampton here.
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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