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By MOLLY ARONSON and LOUAI ABU-OSBA

 We are a Palestinian parent of two children in the Northampton school district and a Jewish educator formerly residing in Northampton. We were upset to learn that at a recent professional development training for NPS teachers and staff, supposedly to...

By TOM WEINER

 Swastikas in the hallway. “Burn the Jews” at a fire drill. Could this happen in the Northampton schools? It turns out it could and … it did, as I learned from the parents of a student.So that question is tragically answered already this school year,...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The 2024 edition of the annual “Battle of the Bridge” between the Amherst and Northampton football teams was anything but a battle.The Hurricanes scored on all six of their first half possessions, and added in a 75-yard punt return touchdown...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Students from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School and from UMass Amherst got to see the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices in action on Friday, as the court held a special sitting at Hampshire County Superior Court...

By BILL NEWMAN

Many of Donald Trump’s most adamant supporters acknowledge that he is a disgusting racist and misogynist, an inveterate liar, a grifter, and a fraud. But many don’t care or worse, venerate him for exactly these, what shall we call them —...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Repair and removal of existing dams in Hampshire and Franklin counties, along with improvements to Holyoke’s levee control system and repairs to the pump station, are being supported by more than $1.04 million from the state’s Executive...

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

If you follow national politics, then you know how dysfunctional Congress is. The 118th congressional session has been one of the most unproductive in history; it only passed 27 pieces of legislation in 2023.While some may be quick to blame...

By RICHARD SZLOSEK

 All four of my grandparents were born in Poland, and my father’s parents actually lived with us. Because of that fact, there was often polka music playing on the radio in our house when I was a young boy in the late 1940s.The most popular station was...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opening arguments in the trial of a city man accused of murder in 2021 are set to begin on Tuesday, as selection of the 12 jurors for the case wrapped up in Hampshire Superior Court on Thursday.Steven Malloy, 35, of Northampton, was...

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — Tucked on the steep hill of Crafts Avenue across from City Hall downtown, Taipei Hibachi is trying to make a new name for itself.Inside the newly opened hibachi restaurant, a renovated open floor plan invites customers to a counter...

The Northampton Youth Senior football team split two games last week and now sit at 5-1 with two regular season games remaining on its schedule.In the first matchup, two rushing touchdowns by star tailback "Mop-Mop" Soum-Morrero were not enough to get...

In a recent guest column, a writer wrote in support of “de-shelving Israeli products” from River Valley [“Co-op deshelving campaign part of global anti-apartheid movement,” Gazette, Sept. 28]. For those who aren’t familiar with the BDS movement — it...

I want to thank the Daily Hampshire Gazette for your coverage of Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s recent topping-off ceremony for the new Emergency Department and the community members who made it possible. I started working at Cooley Dickinson 40 years...

Perugia Press Prize winnerPerugia Press, a Florence-based feminist poetry micro press, recently announced that the book “Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms” by Joan Kwon Glass is the winner of their Perugia Press Prize, which honors poetry books written...

Much of what Gazette columnist Susan Wozniak recently wrote about newcomers in this country resonated with me and likely many others [”Newcomers will become part of fabric of country,” Sept. 26]. Wozniak emphasizes the importance of families...

The Northampton Parks & Recreation Department (NPRD) was one of 39 communities in the country that were recently awarded a grant through the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) to partner with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Ronny Almog awoke and checked Facebook and Israeli news on his computer and quickly realized something was wrong.“I called my mom in Israel, and I told her, it seems like there is a very intense war,” said Almog, who...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — The words “fun” and “meditation” may seem like conflicting or dissonant experiences, but according to breast cancer survivors Andrea Kandel and Rachel Levey, dragon boating can be both.Kandel and Levey are members of Paradise City’s...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In a small wooded area off of Cooke Avenue, people living in camp tents spent Monday morning scrambling to collect whatever belongings they had in anticipation of what the day might bring, and writing phone numbers on their forearms in...

Our street is one huge poorly filled pothole! It’s bone-jarring to drive on the street. There are also many drainage issues. One half of Crescent Street was repaved about 20 years ago and it would be good to have the other half done. We pay taxes...

In the Oct. 2 guest column ”Backroom deals, false climate fixes,” there is a strong attack on nuclear power generation, saying “Nuclear power is not clean. It is absolutely filthy.”There are no carbon emissions in operation, the carbon issue is the...