When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go to Woodstar and get a scone and a coffee. And soon you can also spend your alone/lonely time at the new Uya location where Glazed Doughnuts used to be. Or at Thornes Marketplace. Or Northampton Brewery. Or go to Silverscape and solve your loneliness problem by checking out a pair of $2,000 sapphire and diamond white gold drop earrings. And for the past four years the organization watching the backs of our downtown businesses has been the Downtown Northampton Association.

But wait, there’s more! The DNA is also responsible for Arts Night Out, the Holiday Stroll, Sidewalk Sales and even more more. Amy Cahillane has been the Executive Director of the DNA since its inception. So she knows more than anyone what the challenges and the strengths of our commercial district are, as well as how things are looking for the future.

The DNA can be found at NorthamptonDNA.com and @northamptondna on Instagram and Facebook.