Northampton is among the 5 perfect college towns in this article

Colleges & Universities Smith College
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<p>In the August issue of Lucky magazine, Northampton is listed as having very good shopping (I can’t remember the exact title of the feature - I read it at the hairdresser’s yesterday).</p>

<p>The following link has short descriptions of the stores featured, though I think the article itself was a little longer.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.luckymag.com/cityguides/northampton_ma/[/url]”>http://www.luckymag.com/cityguides/northampton_ma/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;