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Ahmad Esfahani: Ists and isms
12-04-2024 7:28 PM

Toying around with the English language can be both a fun and formidable enterprise. On the surface, the erudite and studied will argue until they are blue in the face that socialism is different than fascism. Better still, try to bring up comparisons...

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MassDOT’s final report assesses ridership, costs of Northern Tier Passenger Rail
12-07-2024 5:26 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Running consistent passenger rail service for 140 miles through northern Massachusetts communities to connect North Adams and Boston could attract hundreds of riders per day, but would also require hundreds of millions of dollars in up-front capital...


Data shows a historic dry fall for western Mass
12-03-2024 3:59 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

With bodies of water receding and brush fires throughout the state, it was clearly a dry fall for the Pioneer Valley and new data analysis confirms the season was historically dry for western Massachusetts.Preliminary National Weather Service data for...


Allen Woods guest column: Rejoining the ‘loyal opposition’
12-01-2024 8:08 PM

By ALLEN WOODS

In the weeks since the gut punch of Donald Trump’s reelection, The Boston Globe reports that some fervent supporters of Kamala Harris have fully retreated from the political arena — an area that now feels like the Roman Colosseum where slaves and...


South Hadley lands green community status
11-28-2024 3:07 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY —  South Hadley is the last community in Hampshire County to receive the green community designation from Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.On Nov. 22, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced three new communities and...


Wicked effort: Walkers in March for the Food Bank with Monte Belmonte slog way toward fundraising goal
11-26-2024 9:10 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

Leading a roughly 100-person crowd across a two-day, 43-mile trek from Springfield to Greenfield, NEPM radio host Christopher “Monte” Belmonte raised more than $572,000 to end hunger during the 15th annual March for the Food Bank.Belmonte, dressed as...


LGBTQ organizations unite in wake of election
11-25-2024 9:00 AM

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and SAMUEL GELINAS

In the days following the presidential election, local LGBTQ organizations began hosting support sessions to help foster community amid rising fears that a second Trump administration will rollback the progress made on rights and legal protections...


One hundred entities sign letters of support for Northern Tier Rail
11-19-2024 1:09 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With a fist raised in the air, state Sen. Jo Comerford and dozens of advocates and business leaders, as well as state and local officials, rallied in support of the Northern Tier Passenger Rail Monday morning at the John W. Olver Transit...


Columnist Tolley M. Jones: I am weary
11-13-2024 8:26 PM

By TOLLEY M. JONES

This morning I stood in front of my altar and lit its candles, held a stub of palo santo to the sputtering flame, and even before I spoke I felt the tingling and buzzing in my shoulders and arms that let me know The Ancestors were already there...


Summit featuring former NFL star explores paths to healthy school cultures
10-30-2024 4:24 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Educators from more than 24 schools and districts throughout the region gathered at Greenfield Community College Wednesday morning as keynote speaker Gaelin Elmore, a former NFL player, spoke of his tumultuous childhood and how community...


Guest columnist Allen J. Davis: Have you done all you can for our country?
10-27-2024 7:43 PM

By ALLEN J. DAVIS

 This presidential election, the most important since 1860 when Lincoln’s victory saved the Union, will be decided by relatively few votes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, just like in 2016 and 2020. The race...


Healey’s $30 million earmark extends fare-free service for regional transit authorities
10-25-2024 10:31 AM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD – Gov. Maura Healey joined local and state officials outside the Franklin Regional Transit Authority’s (FRTA) offices Thursday afternoon to celebrate her administration’s $30 million earmark to fund year-round, fare-free transportation...


Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories
10-25-2024 10:22 AM

By Melissa Karen Sances

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a...


My Turn: How men vote on reproductive rights could determine the next president
10-24-2024 5:59 PM

By ROB OKUN

 With so many women’s lives in danger, men remain the largest group of passive supporters of reproductive rights in the country. We very well may hold the key that opens the front door to the White House.It’s no secret that men, especially young men,...


Closer than Mumbai: Inaugural Bollywood film series comes to Greenfield Garden Cinemas every second Monday
10-23-2024 3:24 PM

By AMALIA WOMPA

Vidhi Salla, a radio host, author and journalist whose focus is on Indian cultural arts, is pioneering the introduction of Bollywood to New England theaters.Salla grew up in Mumbai and studied literature before moving to southern Vermont in 2018 to...


Former employee sues career center, Greenfield, Northampton
10-14-2024 4:21 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

WORCESTER — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center’s executive director is being sued by a former co-worker alleging she has lost out on consulting contracts because of damaging information spread by her ex-colleague.Maura Geary is the first...


Canine companions: Five College students foster, train puppies to become service dogs through Diggity Dogs partnership
10-13-2024 3:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ever since Cash, a purebred black Labrador retriever, was about 8 weeks old, he has been University of Massachusetts senior Rachel Pranga’s constant companion, with her around the clock no matter where she goes or what she does.“He literally...


Columnist Tolley M. Jones: Your silence will not protect you
10-09-2024 5:17 PM

By TOLLEY M. JONES

 Oppressive regimes, governments, religions and family systems rely on silence to fester and thrive. Their weak and parasitic exoskeleton depends on a steady supply of hapless victims who either helplessly, unknowingly, or willingly remain within the...


PVTA to waive fares, launch new Amherst-to-Greenfield route
10-08-2024 4:14 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority will go fare-free beginning Nov. 1, part of a statewide “Try Transit” initiative that provides funding to allow transit authorities to waive fees for riders.PVTA said that no fares or passes will be...


Guest columnist Al Norman: The dirty details about clean energy siting in Massachusetts
10-04-2024 1:49 PM

By AL NORMAN

Solar facilities and battery storage have been protected in Massachusetts from local zoning bylaws since 1985. “In codifying solar energy as a protected use,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has written, “the Legislature determined...


Local intergenerational pickleball team to compete in Washington DC
09-26-2024 6:45 PM

By AMALIA WOMPA

America’s fastest-growing sport has continued to find avid players in Franklin County, and now, two longtime residents are traveling to Washington D.C. to compete for the ultimate title.The intergenerational team, Todd “Happy” Boynton, 51, of...

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