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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke man has been sentenced to state prison after pleading guilty to a violent armed robbery in the parking lot of the Northampton Walmart last year.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Through five decades in the entertainment industry, comedian, author, actress, and radio host Sandra Bernhard has done a lot – and, next weekend, she’ll bring that experience and love of performing to Northampton.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

“The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old” by Sophy Burnham (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 256 pages)

Glasgow Lands, a festival celebrating Scottish culture, history, and heritage, will return to Look Park for its 30th year on Saturday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

We are volunteers at the Academy of Music who are delighted to be involved with this delightful venue and valuable resource to our city. Of course there are great challenges to create accessibility in a place built 125 years ago. However one important and legally required resource that is sadly lacking at the venue is assistive devices for the hearing impaired. In our aging society it also likely adversely impacts attendance.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In 2023, Eric Suher told the Northampton License Commission he had reached a deal to sell the Calvin Theatre to New York City music venue operator The Bowery Presents, and it seemed the long-empty theater was on the verge of a revival.

While most international and American attention is being focused on the possibility of Iran having nuclear weapon capabilities, the certainty of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians has taken a back seat.

By ANAT WEISENFREUND

Thank you, Tolley Jones. Your columns are hard reading, but they tell my heart how to understand what I know.

You may see us with signs and banners in our neighborhood. We’re a small group of seniors who believe this is no time for despair and handwringing.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Though the June 10 City Council meeting was held remotely via Zoom and not in person, an air of tension could be felt amid discussion over the Northampton Reparations Study Commission.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Prospect Place, a planned affordable housing complex at a former nursing home at 737 Bridge Road, has begun accepting applicants to occupy its 60 housing units.

By CAROLYN BROWN

NORTHAMPTON — Equestrians will flock to Northampton later this month to celebrate and show off their skills with Morgan horses, the official state horse of Massachusetts.

By JONATHAN DAUBE

Review: Gwen Agna, “Community-Centered School Leadership: Lessons in Sustaining A Just And Equitable School,” Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York and London, 2025.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city has fired an administrative assistant of the Northampton Reparations Study Commission and the chair of the commission has resigned ahead of a City Council meeting where it will be determined whether or not to continue the commission’s work on its final report.

So, the governor in the name of “clean energy” wants to dump a 1982 referendum requiring another to approve any new nuclear facilities in the state.

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In May of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited John Muir, one of the most revered naturalists of his time, in Yosemite, California. Muir took Roosevelt on a three-day camping excursion through the area, hoping that exposing him to Yosemite’s natural beauty would convince the president to set aside Yosemite and other wilderness areas to be designated as national parks.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The opening of the Lichter & Levin Delicatessen is proof that, in Emily Lichter’s words, “sometimes the silliest ideas become your greatest.”

By JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA

My big “a-ha” moment came from hearing the Young Rascals song “Lonely Too Long” on New Year’s Day. Ah, how Felix Cavaliere’s soulful voice made kids like me feel seen in 1967! And here I was, decades later, experiencing a wild sense of déjà vu.