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This year I discovered a medication which could have been available to me decades ago. Politicians used drug hysteria to prohibit the research and development of drugs that help people with mental conditions such as PTSD and depression. If similar...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

A new hiking trail through Ashfield and Goshen is opening to the public this weekend.Hilltown Land Trust and Ashfield Trails will host an inaugural hike through the Hilltown Boulders Trail on Saturday at 1 p.m. Attendees will stroll along a 2-mile...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Pedestrian safety and utility infrastructure improvements totaling $4.4 million for an affordable housing development in Easthampton, $1.94 million to build a new roundabout in Amherst at the edge of the University of Massachusetts...

By JACOB NELSON

For people near Goshen, Oliver’s Farm Stand is bringing more local food within close reach. As they do, they’re bringing their neighbors closer together too.Farm stands come in many shapes and sizes. Since 2017, Oliver’s has grown into a nearly...

While reading “American Prometheus,” the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, I was amazed to realize that he began advocating against the proliferation of nuclear weapons almost 80 years ago. Yet despite his efforts and those of many other...

Last year I became the director of Goshen Free Library. I’m a faithful subscriber to the Gazette so I knew there was a town called Goshen. There are plenty of Goshen stones used in the town I live in. In the last year I have learned that there is more...

By DOMENIC POLI

It seems people from all over are anxious for warmer weather to arrive as bookings at the three state camping locations in Hampshire and Franklin counties are filling up fast, mirroring a trend at state-run campsites throughout Massachusetts.The state...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Select Board agreed last week to withhold paying its quarterly assessment to the Hampshire Regional School District in response to ongoing challenges in the school district’s business office that are putting the town’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

GOSHEN — About to begin its 96th year, Camp Howe is the longest running 4-H summer program in Massachusetts, one of five camps offering a place for youth and young adults to gain life skills as they bunk in rustic cabins, swim, canoe, climb, hike and...

In October, Goshen residents and landowners received a mailing of the Re-imagine Goshen Center project’s recently printed brochure. This mailing generated donations and inquiries about volunteering.On Nov. 12, an enthusiastic crowd gathered in the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Hampshire County faced several road closures, power outages and flooding after strong winds and heavy rainfall that began on Sunday night and continued through much of Monday.In Northampton, at least two streets, West Street and Meadow...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

An infusion of another $320,000 from the state’s MassTrails Grant Program will bring the design and engineering phase for a new 3½-mile rail trail in Southampton another step closer to completion.Meanwhile, a $60,000 grant will improve the Robert...

By BERA DUNAU

GOSHEN — There is a place where women rule, across multiple levels of government. But this place isn’t the fictional island of Themyscira, famously home to the superhero Wonder Woman; it’s the small hilltown of Goshen.“Perhaps other people have that...

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to the...

By BERA DUNAU

Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.Both Worthington and Plainfield moved to having full-time chiefs this year. Chesterfield and Goshen are considering regionalizing their police departments after the chiefs in...

By CHRIS GOUDREAU

A home being built in Goshen would be the first in the Pioneer Valley to be an intentionally carbon sequestering home constructed using an environmentally sustainable mixture of hemp and limestone called hempcrete.The property, located on Fuller Road,...