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By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Collective Copies, a worker-owned, union copy shop, is in the midst of expanding and renovating its production facility at 93 Main St. in Florence, a project that will accommodate the consolidation of its longtime site at 71 South Pleasant St. in Amherst when that storefront closes on May 1.

By CAROL EDELSTEIN

I’m responding to Bill Dwight’s Feb. 21 letter, “Facts about school budget matter,” which suggests Support Our Schools (a community group advocating for increased school funding from the city) is spreading misinformation.

By JOHN PARADIS

By CAROLYN BROWN

The roots music festival Back Porch Festival, which takes place in downtown Northampton, will return for its 11th year from Friday, March 7, through Sunday, March 9, with more than 60 performers.

We ask “what can I do?” in the face of the current political environment. Democracy is not a spectator sport!

I’m completely opposed to Project 2025 and President Donald Trump’s agenda; however, I am writing to object to Cagle Cartoons’ satire. Creating an image of poor, bumbling Trump supporters does a disservice to someday bridging some of our political animus and divide.

By MICHAEL STEIN

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Joe Minton knows that video games are serious business.

A recent article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology relates colon cancer, lung cancer and human infertility to microplastics. These are tiny particles of plastic that come from the manufacture, use and disposal of plastic products. A story in the Boston Globe reports that people with microplastics in major arteries are more likely to have heart attacks and strokes.

By CARRIE N. BAKER

On June 22, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established a half-century before in Roe v. Wade, opening the door to state abortion bans across the country. Today, 12 states prohibit abortion entirely; four states ban abortion at six weeks, two at 12 weeks, and one at 18 weeks.

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares and the Northampton Center for the Arts will present “A World of Piano,” an event series featuring one of three solo pianists per night, at 33 Hawley in Northampton from Thursday, Feb. 27, through Saturday, March 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

I write to ask my Ward 3 neighbors to join me in supporting Laurie Loisel for City Council on Nov. 4. I first met Laurie approximately 30 years ago. At the time, I was prosecuting cases for the district attorney and Laurie was covering the Gazette’s “courthouse beat.” At the end of each court session, she would track me down to follow up on what she witnessed in the courtroom in preparation for the next day’s story.

I am all for “maximizing governmental efficiency and productivity” per the president’s executive order creating the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency. Alas, DOGE is anything but efficient.

Northampton residents, your generosity in 2024 was extraordinary! Together, you donated over 945,000 pounds of clothing and household goods to Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, a community-based nonprofit organization.

The Gazette’s recent coverage of the development of St Mary’s property in Northampton has been helpful and thorough for our city residents. Many negative remarks have been circulating about the proposed building for the former parking lot. The building would cover the lower level of the lot near the road and swallow up the hill to the back of the rectory and church buildings.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Donaven Gibbs remembers the first time he heard about Northampton’s Division of Community Care, the agency that acts as an alternative response unit to assist people experiencing mental health crises or homelessness in the city.

By RICHARD FEIN

By RUTHERFORD J. PLATT

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Despite a persistent strong division of opinion on how to support education in the city, everyone who attended Thursday’s City Council meeting agreed on one thing: The situation at Northampton Public Schools has reached a crisis.