Alex Kent’s recent column “Gold Rush in Amherst!” [Gazette, Feb. 18] discusses how “lax enforcement of the Tenant Zoning bylaw” is leading to an “ongoing deterioration of neighborhoods” besieged by unscrupulous investors profiting from the town’s...
Thanks to the police, firefighters and EMTs from Amherst and surrounding communities who showed up to maintain order and save lives during the so-called Barney Blowout around UMass Amherst. Thanks as well to Scott Livingstone for his many years of...
McCarthy and the debt ceilingAfter 15 rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy became Speaker of the House by promising a group of extremist Republican representatives that he would not agree to raising the debt ceiling without demanding cuts in federal...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
The line wrapped around Smith College’s Indoor Track & Tennis complex an hour before tipoff. Smith athletic director Kristen Hughes’ phone lit up with a text, “It’s like a Rihanna concert out here.”Ainsworth Gymnasium holds roughly 500 people, and the...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
HOLYOKE — It’s that time of year again to get your Irish on for the annual Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day parade and road race this weekend.The celebrations on Saturday and Sunday are expected to draw thousands of people to the Paper City, first to run and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — With its acceptance of an energy reduction plan this week, the Select Board is taking the final step needed to put Hadley in the Green Communities program, where town officials will be able to access state grants that can fund cutting...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Responding to appeals from parents and educators concerned with staff positions proposed to be cut at the town’s three elementary schools, the Amherst School Committee voted this week to recommend a $26.02 million budget that advises the...
HADLEY — Hopkins Academy’s history, including yearbooks, senior class photographs, scrapbooks and newspaper articles, will be on public display when the Edward Hopkins Education Foundation holds an open house Saturday.The event will be the first of...
50 Years Ago ■The burned-out Norwood Apartments on Bridge Street will be torn down in “the next month or so,” according to owner August Woicekoski. Woicekoski said today the demolition firm slated to raze the building is looking for a place to dump...
By MARK PRATT
The scientific nonprofit that tracks the white shark population in Cape Cod waters identified 55 sharks never before documented in the area during its most recent research season, but experts say that’s no reason for tourists who flock to the vacation...
By Naila Moreira
NORTHAMPTON — Even as a hotly debated limit takes effect on the number of pot shops allowed in Northampton, business for cannabis is down in the city.Tax revenues from adult-use marijuana sales have fallen a third from the peak reached shortly after...
By Bob Katzen
THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of March 6-10. There were no roll calls in the House last week.$368 MILLION SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET (S 23): Senate 40-0, approved a $368 million...
By KELLY NORRIS
Lately I am not thinking much about curriculum. I’m not thinking about standards, or using technology, or planning assessments. I’m mostly thinking about gratitude.Maybe it’s my age: I’ve been in the classroom for over 25 years now. Retirement looms...
By ROSEMARY CAINE
Naturally, things have changed a lot on St. Patrick’s Day since I landed here in 1972 with my trio, The Burren Flora. We were unprepared, entering into the fray of green employment, singing and performing the songs of our recently abdicated...
By Tinky Weisblat
Barbara Ann Veal of Sunderland has nothing but happy memories of Saint Patrick’s Day. They come from two different times in her life.One of those times was her childhood. Her Swedish-American father loved to bake Irish soda bread. Despite his ethnic...
By STEVE PFARRER
Unless you’re planning to drink yourself into a stupor with a borg (blackout rage gallon) or some other kind of booze preparation, you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day weekend by listening to any number of Celtic groups that will be playing in the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Food items Toni Holbrook remembers buying for $2 a year or so ago have more than doubled in price, meaning a skyrocketing grocery bill for his growing family, which includes a newborn baby.“It makes it hard on us,” Holbrook said of the...
I write in support of the proposed conversion of the EconoLodge on Route 9 in Hadley to housing for a variety of people who have special needs for affordable housing. I read in the Gazette’s March 3 story [“Housing plans for old motel debated,”] about...
The news can weigh heavily on our minds these days, so it was a pleasure to see such an endearing photograph of Forbes Library’s preschool storytime activity (“Reading Wonders,” Gazette March 3). As I understand it, Gazette Staff Photographer Dan...
By CHRISTINA ROYAL
Monday, March 13, marked the third anniversary of my message to the Holyoke Community College community, announcing that, following spring break in 2020, all academic courses (and soon nearly all campus services) would go fully remote due to the...
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