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By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

RFK Jr., the former environmental champion, now head of head of the Department of Health and Human Services, declared just last year that climate change is “real, manmade, and an existential threat.” Yet in late March, all research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — part of HHS — studying the effects of climate change on human health was canceled.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — When Kara McElhone, executive director of child welfare nonprofit Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County, searched in vain for a satellite office in Belchertown, Police Chief Kevin Pacunas personally helped her locate a place to rent.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Demolition and abatement of the environmentally-contaminated old power plant on the Belchertown State School property is underway as part of the redevelopment of the sprawling site.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — In response to resident concerns and pleas from an April 1 listening session, the Select Board on Thursday voted to lower the Proposition 2½ override request from $3.3 million to $2.9 million in hopes that a more palatable number will pass at the ballot box.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Residents at a public listening session last Thursday voiced their disappointment over the Select Board’s decision to advance a request for a $3.3 million Proposition 2½ general override to annual Town Meeting this spring, claiming the figure is too high for voters to stomach and puts school funding in jeopardy.

Woody Allen’s contribution to cinema is the lovable nebbish — a hopelessly hopeful Don Juan wannabe who never will be. In the 1972 film “Play It Again, Sam,” Mr. Allen portrays Allan Felix, a recent divorcé who feels like a stranger in a strange land when it comes to meeting women.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Races are heating up for the May 19 town election, where two seats on the Select Board and one seat on the School Committee are up for grabs.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — When Town Manager Steve Williams goes on the road to advertise Belchertown as a viable, business-friendly community, business owners admit to him that they never considered the town as a potential home for their company.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — After a month of parent protest and debate among town leaders, the Select Board narrowly approved putting a Proposition 2½ general override question on the ballot to fund level-services budgets for both the schools and the town.

By EMILEE KLEIN

LUDLOW — A new regional energy manager will guide decarbonization and sustainable energy efforts for 15 communities in Hampshire and Hampden counties as part of a collaboration to bring down energy costs.

By Dr. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

I’ve been a physician for nearly 40 years. We are trained to evaluate information about human health based on a foundation of knowledge learned in 11-12 years of pre-med, med school and residency training, evidence-based research, and experience listening to and treating thousands of patients.

The Gazette article “Racism still being handed down in Northampton deeds” [Feb. 28] refers to work done by me and the Hampshire Registry of Deeds to find restrictive covenants in our deeds. Restrictive covenants, here, is language that prohibits certain discriminatory action as a condition of transferring the deed to another party. The language is unenforceable per Supreme Court decision Shelly v. Kraemer in 1948 and expressly prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

By MICHAEL CAROLAN

By ELLY VAUGHAN

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Tensions ran high during Monday night’s Select Board meeting as Belchertown families and school district staff — who spilled out the back and sides of the room holding signs to protest the proposed $2.1 million cut to the district’s level-services budget — pleaded with board members to consider a Proposition 2½ budget override for fiscal year 2026.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — For 15 minutes Wednesday morning, Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler turned the Belchertown High School Auditorium into his history classroom, teaching the Belchertown student body about a series of individuals who shattered the glass ceilings for Black people in their respective industries.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Weeks after learning the Belchertown school budget is $2.1 million short of funding level services, the School Committee is contemplating staff layoffs and reductions, cuts of extracurricular activities — including sports and performing arts — and closing Cold Spring School.

On Feb. 28, concerned Americans will protest the takeover of our country by refusing to spend money. The so-called “restoration of shared values” currently amounts to insulting allies; stripping women, trans people and children of medical care and basic rights; threatening critics; moving to abolish the free press; administering loyalty tests; firing workers without cause; deporting immigrants; dismantling DEI; and handing over governmental functions and records to an unelected, foreign-born neo-Nazi.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown is the most recent community to endorse the completion of the 104-mile Mass Central Rail Trail that runs through 26 communities across the state.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Window World of Western Massachusetts has a long history of providing quality windows and doors, but the business only provides one piece in the whole picture of home improvement — until now.