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After I left the recent Easthampton Planning Board meeting where the Tasty Top/Sierra Vista development was approved, I felt sad that for the first time in 27 years here I wasn’t proud of my city.In recent years, city government has done a fantastic...

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In recent years, it has become clear that social media platforms have the capacity to deepen social polarization and worsen the already dire political situation.Many of the negative effects of social media on our political environment are well known...

By SARA WEINBERGER

Tuesday morning, I’m driving to the Ashley Reservoir in Holyoke to meet a friend for a morning walk. The radio is tuned to NPR. A news brief reports two back-to-back headlines: Officials at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, without power to operate incubators...

As we sit here, we are realizing how frustrated and saddened we are about the bombings of Israel and Gaza. We read a very good column by Adin Maynar printed in the Oct. 20 Gazette [“American Jews must speak out against the bombing of innocents”] as...

The crops are in, the leaves fallen and the nights frosty. We prepare for Thanksgiving in terms for being grateful for the benefits we have received. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the farmers who keep the land in production, and the...

When I dream about a harmonious society here in the Valley, it includes a well-functioning and interconnected public transportation system to provide the bones of that community. There is fast and frequent train service between Boston, Springfield and...

By FRANK ROBERTS

As the conflict in Israel enters its fourth week, I find myself thinking more about the future than the past.Initially I was angry. I found my thoughts drifting from outrage to sadness to revenge. I have constantly imagined what I would do if it were...

As a city councilor for 27 years and reaching the end of my term on the council, I am very concerned with who might replace me. Hoping for someone that shared my values of caring for the citizens of Easthampton while watching over tax dollars and...

The savage slaughter by Hamas terrorists of 1,300-plus Israelis on Oct. 7 sent shock waves around the world, leaving profound grief and rage in its wake. Members of my synagogue community are mourning murdered family members, frantic over the fate of...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — When the next group of Easthampton School Committee members are sworn into office in January, they will be tasked with a number of responsibilities including budget discussions and a renewed superintendent search.Ten candidates,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BOSTON — Stressing that legal drug consumption sites would save hundreds of lives and that there isn’t a moment to waste, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan implored lawmakers on Monday to muster up the courage to pass legislation before...

I live in Easthampton and I am employed in Northampton as a clinical social worker. For personal and professional reasons, I am deeply invested in expanding affordable housing in Easthampton and beyond. While the proposed Tasty Top LLC development in...

By MARTY KLEIN and KATHY AHERN

For the past 10 months, a proposed 440,000-square-foot development, “Sierra Vista Commons,” on 33 acres behind Starbucks, above the Manhan River (formerly Tasty Top) has been reviewed by Easthampton’s Planning Board and Conservation Commission. To...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — School Committee member Sam Hunter, a transgender person, remembers searching for children’s books at the public library that represented queer families like his own after he and his wife had a baby in 2016.To Hunter’s surprise, those...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Police are urging residents to lock their car doors following a string of recent car break-ins in Westhampton, Southampton and Easthampton.Just after midnight on Sunday going into Monday, Westhampton saw four car break-ins at one address, along with...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the Planning Board nears a decision on the proposed multimillion dollar retail and housing complex at the former Tasty Top site off Route 10, a roundabout is now being considered to handle an expected increase in traffic, as opposed...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Early on Monday morning, a New England-based white supremacist and neo-Nazi group left flyers on residents’ lawns and driveways throughout the southern section of the city, according to the Easthampton Police Department.“It’s beyond...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — A proposed new bylaw would prohibit property owners from storing more than one unregistered vehicle or trailer on their property, with certain exceptions.The bylaw aims to regulate the storage of unregistered vehicles and “simultaneously...

By SARA WEINBERGER

I was aware that educational outcomes took a nose-dive during the height of the COVID pandemic, and had heard there was a move afoot to stop requiring students to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) in order to graduate. When...

Editor’s note: Bob Flaherty, a longtime author, radio personality and former Gazette writer and columnist, launches a regular column today called “Chance Encounters” in which he writes about our neighbors going about their daily lives.EASTHAMPTON —...