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By DOMENIC POLI
Don’t talk to the American people until they’ve had their coffee.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
GREENFIELD — Clare Higgins, executive director of Community Action of Pioneer Valley, will retire this summer after nearly 14 years at the helm of the nonprofit anti-poverty agency, marking an end to a career — she previously served as Northampton’s mayor and on its City Council for about 18 years — that has enabled her to make a difference in the lives of residents up and down the Pioneer Valley for the last three-plus decades.
By AL NORMAN
By DOMENIC POLI
AMHERST — As a teenager, Skye Wellington frequented Kelly’s restaurant, a nearly 30-year mainstay of a College Street business plaza until closing near the end of 2022.
Dear Mr. President: With all due respect, it’s the “Gulf of Mexico.” As the saying goes: You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Recalling President Bill Clinton’s one-time campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid!” and recognizing you as our once-again single-term president, “It’s the Gulf of Mexico, silly!” That’s ground truth, derived from the endemic language of the place.
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been chosen to serve as retiring Sheriff Christopher Donelan’s interim replacement starting at the beginning of February.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERIand DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — A 66-year-old Westfield man was found dead after he fell into a sand silo at Chicopee Concrete Service on Friday morning.
By ALLEN WOODS
By EDWARD DOWD
By TOLLEY M. JONES
I have been told that I am “too much” throughout my life. I suppose I agree with this assessment, because I conversely have always looked around me and felt deeply that the people around me were “not enough.”
By ALLEN WOODS
No one except the most extreme political or religious fanatics encourages or embraces murder. Its prohibition is a bedrock value in every society and stated explicitly in laws, and religious and moral teachings.But, of course, there are exceptions....
By EVELINE MACDOUGALL
A rollicking group who bonded through a class at Franklin County’s YMCA in Greenfield have produced a calendar for 2025 that celebrates beautiful humans in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Let’s meet some water nymphs who could grace your wall if you get...
By AL NORMAN
Executives in the nuclear power industry are clinking glasses this New Year’s Day, with high hopes to make nuclear great again in 2025. Technology industry barons, from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos, are green-scrubbing nukes to make them presentable as a...
Those with a more exploratory palate are perhaps enjoying the smells of clove, allspice, and cinnamon mixing with the recently hyped aroma of UFO-related malarkey. Instead of three wise men, we get Tom DeLonge, Steven Greer and Elon Musk telling yarns...
By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ
“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — UnknownWe are born into the world unknowing but highly curious. It is our curiosity that enables us to survive our earliest hours and days. At birth we lack the vocabulary to express...
Auditions for ‘Love Letters’ The volunteer theater company Valley Players will hold auditions for the play “Love Letters” by appointment only on Monday, Jan. 6, and Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst.The show,...
Thank you for publishing Karen Bercovici’s guest column on gender care for children [“We need to rethink ‘gender-affirming care’ for our children,” Nov. 14], and the responses to it, many of which amount to “Don’t talk about this.” But anyone who...
By ALLEN WOODS
Judging by the number of cultures and religions that celebrate the winter solstice, I guess my yearly November-into-December slump isn’t just about me. Nearly every group has a holiday associated with the pivotal day, although the celebrated event...
By TOLLEY M. JONES
The silverware family in the sink swam in the Palmolive suds sea as I stood on the wooden step stool washing the dinner dishes. At 7 years old, I was too small to be able to reach the sink otherwise. My 9-year-old sister and I were responsible for...
By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ
Upheaval. Chaos, confusion. Radical change. The “New World Order.” The “new normal? However we frame it, we are in turbulent times — and are headed for more of the same.Do we need to adjust to it? Or do we make the changes needed to maintain our...
By CHRIS LISINSKI
Running consistent passenger rail service for 140 miles through northern Massachusetts communities to connect North Adams and Boston could attract hundreds of riders per day, but would also require hundreds of millions of dollars in up-front capital...
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