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By KAREN GARDNER

It would be hard to have missed this, but maybe you did. At a campaign rally on Saturday, as reported by the Associated Press, Donald Trump stated that, “as president, he warned NATO allies that he ‘would encourage’ Russia ‘to do whatever the hell...

By KAREN GARDNER

It’s the Name That President game show! And you, our contestants, are here to show your mettle and knowledge by matching the correct president to his statements and accomplishments. What fun!In today’s game, you have a choice between President X and...

Though I don’t live in Northampton, I do want to weigh in on the light pollution issue that I hope will result in a strong ordinance.Every night where I live 10 miles away, I witness the skyglow from Northampton’s lights, an excess of lights from the...

By KAREN GARDNER

Take a walk with me for a minute and just let your mind go free. Imagine a world where things can happen that you never thought possible.The former guy, the Donald, is still running for a second term as president of our country while under several...

By KAREN GARDNER

I have been overwhelmed with heartache and fear this last month, since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on unarmed Israelis that took some 1,400 lives and more than 200 hostages. The Israeli government’s response, led by right wing Benjamin Netanyahu has...

Recently, Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez said on national TV that Democrats are responsible for the current chaotic situation in the House of Representatives. The reason: because none of them voted to confirm Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, as...

I haven’t sensed this kind of collective anxiety since 2012, after those beautiful children were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Prior to that, it was 9/11.Deep despair. The present despair is that the recent mass casualties in Israel and...

It could be that the last thing needed is another letter regarding the Main Street redesign in Northampton, but I can’t resist making two observations: First, it seems that with many large-scale public transportation projects, there is a long public...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Northwestern district attorney’s office has identified the 57-year-old Haydenville man who was killed Tuesday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash on the Northampton-Williamsburg line.Edward Duggan was the driver of an SUV that was...

We know that many in our community were distressed when Family Veterinary Center in Haydenville closed its doors abruptly on May 2. As the founders and previous owners, it was the last thing we wanted or expected for our clients and their pets of the...

By ANDREA AYVAZIAN

I grew up in a New Jersey suburb until age nine, when my family moved to Saranac Lake, New York, deep in the Adirondack Mountains. Our New Jersey neighbors said we were lucky to be moving to what they called “God’s country.” Maybe it seemed like...

By KAREN GARDNER

Once upon a time, a fellow named Mitch, a Republican who happened to be the Senate majority leader, decided that despite a few centuries of tradition and principle, he would create a new way of doing things. It wasn’t even a rule, just a principle...

By PENNY SCHULTZ

Kudos to the Gazette for the invaluable civic work of covering State Auditor Diana Dizoglio’s forum in Williamsburg. Western Massachusetts doesn’t get a whole lot of attention from the state, so this visit by our new, feisty, change-making state...

By ANDREA AYVAZIAN

Every joke, stereotype, and snide comment you have ever heard about 50th college reunions is true. I should know, I attended my 50th Oberlin College reunion in Ohio in May. It really was a bunch of old people in awful outfits with large nametags...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Tom Toski, a longtime fixture of the western Massachusetts golf scene who taught several famous clients how to play the game, died last month in Florida. He was 97. Toski was born in 1925 to Walenty and Mary Algustoski, immigrants from Poland, and was...

By JAMES PENTLAND

WILLIAMSBURG — A Missouri native and former interim pastor at First Churches of Northampton has been chosen as pastor of Haydenville Congregational Church.Following a unanimous vote by the congregation, the Rev. Mark R. Seifried began his role as a...

By ANDREA AYVAZIAN

Every day around noon, my husband Michael, a political scientist and prolific writer, stops writing at his desk and walks to downtown Northampton for lunch. He always goes to the same place, BalaganCafé, and orders a sandwich and café latte. The...

One of the national TV news networks recently did a series of reports regarding the thwarted plans by Chinese-based Fufeng Group to build a corn milling facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The proposed $700 million project drew national security...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HAYDENVILLE — The Hilltowns have a new Catholic priest.The Rev. Richard Bondi, who has worked in parishes up and down the Pioneer Valley, officially took over as the pastor of Our Lady of the Hills on Aug. 15.His new parish is a large one — stretching...