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If Congress fails to fully fund WIC, the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, by Jan. 19, states will need to reduce WIC participation by about 2 million young children and pregnant and postpartum adults nationwide by...

The expiration date. That’s what concerned us on the morning of day one of the new year. News arrived that a friend got COVID and we had a brunch to go to, so testing seemed sensible. Except all our unused tests had expired.Lots of talk about...

I read the recent guest column “Trump’s new American revolution of 2024” [Gazette, Dec. 30] with keen interest. Although I too find it troubling that Mr. Trump is ahead in the polls, I believe the race is far from over.Furthermore, the writer’s...

By MARIA JOSÉ BOTELHO

I’m grateful to find out that there’s another faithful reader (and writer) of obituaries in our community [“There’s just a lot of life in the obits” by Marietta Pritchard, Gazette, Jan. 3].I have been reading obituaries since I could read in English...

Kudos to Florence and all responsible for terrific Christmas/holiday lights! Every year they have been outstanding with local businesses participating. Great job!Joseph A. TwarogFlorence

In a Jan. 1 letter published in the Gazette (“Train travel not so great”), the writer complains of the cost in time and money of train travel compared to driving in his own car. He does not mention that a round trip from his home in Sunderland to New...

There are no protests against sending arms to Hamas because the United States is not sending arms to Hamas. Hamas calculated the viciousness of its attack to draw Israel into a trap of seeking the impossible goal of destroying Hamas and losing all...

I felt so uplifted reading about the police officer who fought to overcome her circumstances and remake her world [“Emerging from darkness,” Gazette, Dec. 30]. I would love to see a weekly article dedicated to uplifting stories like this one. It is so...

After listening to the heart-wrenching testimonies of local educators and parents during the Dec. 14 Northampton School Committee meeting, and reading the article, “The Smith College effect,” [Gazette, Dec. 29], it is clear to me that Northampton...

Killing thousands of children will not make Israel safer. We call on the U.S. government to stop sending Israel the means to continue that killing.Gerald Weiss and Jenifer McKennaAmherst 

American politicians could abruptly halt the destruction and carnage in Gaza by threatening to suspend aid and trade to Israel. One reason that politicians haven’t done this is that they fear losing the support of AIPAC and the Jewish vote. American...

The property in the back of mine in Easthampton has a steep 100-foot bank. At the bottom is the Manhan River. On a large part of the bank there is a dump with broken glass, rusty metal objects, who knows what kind of toxic waste is present — there’s...

Bravo to the Florence Civic and Business Association [FCBA] for envisioning and manifesting the first annual Tractor Parade. Parading from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School to Look Park on a dark and chilly night, 39 tractors aglow with...

In a Dec. 29 guest column, writer Michael Seward suggests that opposition to the proposed housing development in Leverett is racist and immoral (“Leverett housing a counter to injustice”). However, he neglects to describe the project being proposed.It...

Good afternoon and happy new year to our most generous and giving neighbors. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We had a very successful Toys for Kids drive this year, collecting the third most toys in our 15 years of doing this. The final...

I read the letter in the Dec. 26 Gazette regarding the demonstrators at L3Harris (”Protesters silent on atrocities in Israel.”) The writer accuses them of “biased simplistic virtue signaling” because they have not condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack in...

In response to the Feb. 27 letter by Sasha Goss, titled “Therapists out of touch,” it’s quite the opposite. We are at the front lines of the current mental health crisis emerging in our country. In fact, there are hundreds of private practice mental...

My name is Talib Sadiq, and education has helped me to turn my life around and put me in a position to give back to my community. Something that more people who have been incarcerated, like myself, should be able to say.As the sheriff of Hampshire...

My Zen calendar for today quotes Marcus Aurelius as saying: “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” These words capture what was so important about last week’s...

In response to William Aherin’s letter about gun violence (“New gun laws won’t fix the problem,” June 11), I take issue with his dismissal of the statistics around gun laws. As a retired statistics teacher, I know people do not always accept the data....