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By EMILY THURLOW

NORTHAMPTON — When meeting new people, Megan Allen has found herself at times on the receiving end of preconceived notions and incorrect assumptions about her intelligence when she indicates that she grew up in Florida.Defying social expectations like...

By GREGG SCHWARTZ

I’ve been reading quite a few editorials against Chase Bank opening a branch at the former Silverscape Designs location, a jewel of the Northampton downtown. I’ve seen the protests over the past few months. I believe that financial protest is one of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After two years of operation in the state, cannabis company Trulieve has announced it will close its three dispensaries in Massachusetts, including one in Northampton, as well as its Holyoke cultivation business, citing a...

NORTHAMPTON — A long vacant church building in downtown Northampton will officially house the Community Resilience Hub.At the end of the City Council’s 2½-hour meeting on Thursday, mostly focused on the city’s fiscal 2024 operating budget, Mayor...

By MATTHEW MUSPRATT

The recent furor over the Smith College School for Social Work’s decision to retire the word “field” from certain program descriptions for its racial “negative associations” has, perhaps predictably, sounded of America’s sharpest, most current...

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT 

‘Picture Main Street” — if fully approved and executed over three years as proposed by state planners — will likely be a death sentence for Northampton’s ailing but treasured Main Street.One need only to look at the various local projects of the state...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A 23-year-old man was charged with manslaughter Friday following a grand jury indictment in the shooting death of Johnathan Letendre, 27, at a Chesterfield home in December.Brian Camp, a Southampton resident, appeared in Hampshire...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A joint municipal electrical aggregation program involving Northampton, Amherst and Pelham, developed over the past several years as a way of bringing cleaner electricity to households and businesses, is getting ready to start.The Valley Green Energy...

For me, and probably for you, the bromides began in grade school, and continued after that — the faith our teachers shared in the genius and effectiveness of our governmental system of three co-equal branches — the legislative, executive and...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

FITCHBURG – Emma Sanford dragged everything left in her out for the 800-meter run.After some stumbles earlier in the day, the South Hadley senior needed a big performance in the final event of the MIAA Meet of Champions pentathlon to reach at least...

All of us at Young@Heart applaud the officials of the city and the creators of Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity for finding a way forward from the impasse that temporarily shut down Bombyx from presenting an amazing line-up of music in that historic...

By TERENCE MASTERSON

Housing creation is a very costly issue that deserves the same level of subsidy we see in transit, roads, education and health care.GM Chairman Alfred Sloan famously said that GM made cars for “every purse and purpose.” Our housing creation policies...

By BARRY ROTH

In a recent New York Times column, David Wallace-Wells criticized the current environmental movement for losing its passion for protecting the natural world for its own sake. Instead, he pointed out, a large faction of environmentalists are focused on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A young fox found injured and limping in the area of the Smith College campus on the afternoon of May 26, being guided out of traffic by several residents, has tested positive for rabies.The city announced Thursday that a state...

I have been to nightclubs. The Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity is not one.Dave MadeloniNorthampton 

On April 26, the city, MassDOT, and Toole Design held a public forum on the redesign of Main Street in Northampton. I found it to be well run and felt that the organizers did a very good job giving respectful and honest responses to questions from the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

GREENFIELD - The Rooster hummed a song of victory in his head staring defeat in the eyes.Frontier Regional junior Wyatt Edes, nicknamed after the barnyard crower for his flowing red locks and crimson goatee, stood in the Veterans Field batter’s box...

With all due respect, I don’t think the recent letter charging the left with promoting a “cancel culture” should go unanswered [“On speech, expression and tolerance,” Gazette, May 17]. The letter writer refers to two local episodes — the Easthampton...

We need to create more laws to protect our kids from harm. After all, kids are impressionable and innocent, and it is our moral duty to protect them from being exposed to harmful and dangerous ideas. Don’t Say Gay laws will do this. So, why should we...

This is in response to the May 17 letter [“On speech, expression and tolerance”]. The letter writer clearly expressed his opinion about “political correctness” and intolerance. I disagree with his opinions. I dislike the term “political correctness,”...