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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city has fired a member of the Northampton Reparations Study Commission and the chair of the commission has resigned ahead of a City Council meeting where it will be determined whether or not to continue the commission’s work on its final report.

So, the governor in the name of “clean energy” wants to dump a 1982 referendum requiring another to approve any new nuclear facilities in the state.

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In May of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited John Muir, one of the most revered naturalists of his time, in Yosemite, California. Muir took Roosevelt on a three-day camping excursion through the area, hoping that exposing him to Yosemite’s natural beauty would convince the president to set aside Yosemite and other wilderness areas to be designated as national parks.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The opening of the Lichter & Levin Delicatessen is proof that, in Emily Lichter’s words, “sometimes the silliest ideas become your greatest.”

By JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA

My big “a-ha” moment came from hearing the Young Rascals song “Lonely Too Long” on New Year’s Day. Ah, how Felix Cavaliere’s soulful voice made kids like me feel seen in 1967! And here I was, decades later, experiencing a wild sense of déjà vu.

As a Northampton woman living with ovarian cancer, I wasn’t fortunate enough to benefit from early detection. Years ago, my primary care doctor in Brooklyn dismissed my bloated belly as “visceral fat.” I could diet away. In truth, the swelling was ascites — fluid caused by two growing tumors. Had my doctor ordered a simple ultrasound or blood test, she might have caught what a young doctor at Cooley Dickinson finally diagnosed two years later: ovarian cancer, by then at Stage III.

By GRACE CHAI

NORTHAMPTON — After 15 years directing harm reduction at Tapestry, Liz Whynott recently accepted a new post as senior program officer at RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to funding and collaborating on solutions to end the overdose crisis in Massachusetts.

By DOMENIC POLI

NORTHAMPTON — The end of the fiscal year coincided with the conclusion of a 39-year career at the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, as Donna Dudkiewicz retired as the organization’s chief financial officer on June 30.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Running a business downtown can come with its fair share of risks and challenges, but a car crashing into the store is generally not among them.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — More than two years after a woman died of an allergic reaction, allegedly from eating a pizza at a downtown restaurant, her estate is now seeking a court order to test the pizza, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Hampden Superior Court.

By LINDA BUTLER

The rumor reached me via a friend who heard it at a poker game: “The city fired teachers to create CAPA,” the Climate Action and Project Administration department. Whoa — what?!

I read the June 27 article “Planners OK Hawley Street condo project,” which concerned a small condo project at 111 Hawley St. I was pleased that the design appears sympathetic to the existing neighborhood, that it is only eight housing units, and that there will be more than ample parking for residents and guests of the condos. I particularly noted architect Scott Laidlaw’s comments: “The buildings’ design was inspired by row house located on nearby Eastern Avenue … We used front porches and front stoops … to really retain the idea that this is a residential neighborhood.”

By SAM FERLAND

FLORENCE — Former Daily Hampshire Gazette publisher Charles “Charlie” W. DeRose, 84, who alongside his late brother Peter L. DeRose turned the Gazette into a true community newspaper, died on Tuesday, July 1, after a long battle with illness.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Boaters on the Connecticut River between the Coolidge Bridge and the Holyoke Dam have for decades depended on channel markers and buoys as navigational aids while traveling along the waterway, protecting them from dangers, like rocks lurking below the surface, as well as alerting them to no-wake areas where they must move at slower speeds.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects our right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” All through the colonial period, long before our Constitution with its Bill of Rights was written, British North American colonists had held that this ancient English right of petition applied equally to them as loyal subjects of the British Empire.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — As the coming arrival of the Picture Main Street project continues to loom over the city, both advocates and opponents of the project are ramping up efforts to either promote or change the plan before it’s set to begin next year.

British Iranians are showing up in large numbers to support Israel and the attacks on Iran. Arman Yachui has been cheering on Israelis. Regarding the pro-Palestinian protesters, he says, “There are so many of them, and they have no idea what is really going on. They are supporting terrorism and don’t even realize it. Israel is bombing the Islamic Republic, they are not bombing our country.” Iranian-born Niyak Ghorbani has been arrested 11 times by British police for simply carrying signs that read “Hamas are terrorists.”

By RICHARD SZLOSEK

“Why is that here?” I asked out loud as my wife and I strolled through Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Florida on our way to lunch. I had noticed an impressive statue of a military figure just off the walkway. I ventured over to check it out and, to my surprise, it was of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the Polish engineer who had used his genius on the American side in the Revolutionary War. However, Florida had belonged to Spain in that period and Kosciuszko had died before Florida ever became part of the United States. So why was there a monument to him here in St. Petersburg?

There are errors in Gary Michael Tartakov’srecent op-ed concerning antisemitism [“The two most important things to know about antisemitism,” Gazette, June 25]. He is right to place antisemitism in a context of European history and the first generations of Christian theology. But he is wrong when he says that antisemitism is “unknown in most of the world.”

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

Every summer, usually towards the beginning of June, my close family and I embark on a week-long excursion to the beach. The people included in this exclusive list are: my mom, my mom’s partner, grandma, my three cousins from Texas — how many of them that come each year varies — and my aunt. We cram into one house, there are bodies everywhere, and no one has nearly enough personal space.

By MAYOR GINA-LOUISE SCIARRA

As of July 1, Northampton’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget of $145,431,259 is in effect. Paired with $23.2 million in capital improvements previously approved by the City Council, Northampton’s overall budget is progressive and fiscally sound, with robust investments and careful management of resources.