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By ALLEN WOODS

Memorial Day always immerses me in a pool of mixed feelings, like those inspired by the national anthem soon after the Vietnam War. Then, the song was used as a club in the culture war, which boiled down the complex issues surrounding the war into the...

By MARY BYRNE

HOLYOKE — Construction of a $72 million behavioral health hospital at the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property on Lower Westfield Road is expected to wrap up in about a month, officials announced this week. When the 150-bed Valley Springs...

By STEVE PFARRER

A little less than 25 years ago, Matthew Shepard, a young, gay University of Wyoming student, was severely beaten by two other young men outside of Laramie, Wyoming, who then left him to die by tying him to a fence alongside a pasture at night in...

By ALLEN WOODS

An online article for MacMillan dictionaries notes that many new words “enter and leave the language as the years go by, a direct reflection of the preoccupations of society in any particular era.” My reaction to the Dominion defamation suit against...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — At least three Greenfield residents and the state senator representing 25 communities in Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester counties have submitted testimony to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to express support for a bill that would...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Rather than stopping criminals, more gun laws in Massachusetts will only serve to punish “law-abiding citizens.”That was the message from a majority of those who spoke before a panel of experts as part of a comprehensive review of the...

By ALLEN WOODS

“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleepingI’m empty and aching and I don’t know whyCounting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey’ve all come to look for America“America,” Paul Simon, 1968The idea of “searching for America” began soon...

By KARL MEYER

In 2016, Canadian capital giant PSP Investments bought three FirstLight Power-branded properties on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, two years before their federal licenses would expire. They quickly transferred them into Delaware tax shelters....

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three charges stemming from the incident last Saturday.Kady J. Flanagan, 28, of Deerfield,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Three of a dozen people arrested in 2021 in connection with a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas Tuesday regarding their involvement in the operation and another had her case...

By ROB OKUN

“Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes … If you don’t have the people rising up, like what they did with civil rights, like what they did to end the Vietnam War … If you don’t have that,...

By Liesel Nygard

GREENFIELD — After a three-year hiatus during COVID, Extravaganja returns Saturday for its 29th event to take place at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, facilitated by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cannabis Education Coalition. Tickets for...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The state opted Monday to drop its case against a Level 3 sex offender and former fugitive to spare the named victim the trauma of taking the witness stand in a trial.Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz, 42, formerly of western Massachusetts, has been...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — Dane Kuttler, one of about 30 people who volunteer for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program run by Community Action Pioneer Valley, thinks doing taxes is fun. More than that, she loves helping low-income taxpayers in the...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

John LaSalle’s astonishing productivity might lead one to wonder if a lifelong collaboration with flowers imbued him with superpowers. Yet at age 70, LaSalle shows no signs of slowing down.“I’m getting ready to retire, though,” he said during a tour...

By JOHN BOS

‘Let music charm me last on earth, and greet me first in heaven.”One book I am reading right now is “Staring at the Sun” by Irvin D. Yalom. He affirms that self-awareness is a supreme gift, a “treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Despite being among the youngest in the room, a group of teenage environmentalists were turned to for guidance during a climate action panel at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew. Their generation, after all, will be most...

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 MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College (GCC) is developing a paraeducator training program that administrators hope will address vacancies in the field across the state and locally, while also reconceptualizing the role as a first step in a career....

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A resident doctor who lives part time in Amherst and practices at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield was arrested Tuesday following the FBI’s recent seizure of about 80 devices containing images and videos believed to be child...