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Coffee pros: Price squeeze a grind
02-10-2025 4:06 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

Don’t talk to the American people until they’ve had their coffee.

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Columnist Tolley M. Jones: We shall not be moved
02-12-2025 9:04 PM

By TOLLEY M. JONES

Resistance is not new to Black people. White people who profited from their abuse and dehumanization of every aspect of our people — from the horrors of the Middle Passage, to the beating, branding and lynching of Black humans, to the use of our hair and skin to make furniture and shoes that still exist to this day — believed that applying enough torture and inhumanity toward these stolen people would crush our spirits and provide them with a docile flock of Black slaves forever.


La Wanza Lett-Brewington, one-time executive director of Safe Passage, remembered as a ‘force of nature’
02-12-2025 11:25 AM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Family members, friends and colleagues gathered in Greenfield Community College’s Cohn Family Dining Commons Monday night to mourn the loss of change-maker, activist and beloved community member La Wanza Lett-Brewington.


Community Action’s tax prep program now open
02-11-2025 10:36 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has launched its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program that helps low-income taxpayers prepare their tax returns.


Clare Higgins, Northampton’s former mayor, to retire from Community Action
02-07-2025 9:14 AM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — Clare Higgins, executive director of Community Action of Pioneer Valley, will retire this summer after nearly 14 years at the helm of the nonprofit anti-poverty agency, marking an end to a career — she previously served as Northampton’s mayor and on its City Council for about 18 years — that has enabled her to make a difference in the lives of residents up and down the Pioneer Valley for the last three-plus decades.


Guest columnist Al Norman: Shutesbury and Wendell appeal seizure of our home rule
02-06-2025 4:34 PM

By AL NORMAN

 


New digs: Innovintage Place moves to old Kelly’s restaurant in Amherst after six years in Greenfield
02-06-2025 10:52 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

AMHERST — As a teenager, Skye Wellington frequented Kelly’s restaurant, a nearly 30-year mainstay of a College Street business plaza until closing near the end of 2022.


Karl Meyer: ‘Gulf of Mexico’ a good name, Aztec derived
01-29-2025 9:56 PM

Dear Mr. President: With all due respect, it’s the “Gulf of Mexico.” As the saying goes: You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Recalling President Bill Clinton’s one-time campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid!” and recognizing you as our once-again single-term president, “It’s the Gulf of Mexico, silly!” That’s ground truth, derived from the endemic language of the place.


Governor names interim sheriff for Franklin County
01-29-2025 4:19 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been chosen to serve as retiring Sheriff Christopher Donelan’s interim replacement starting at the beginning of February.


Westfield man dies after falling into Greenfield sand silo
01-25-2025 8:49 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERIand DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A 66-year-old Westfield man was found dead after he fell into a sand silo at Chicopee Concrete Service on Friday morning.


Guest columnist Allen Woods: The art of misdirection
01-23-2025 8:05 AM

By ALLEN WOODS

 


My Turn: Trump and the ‘He Too’ guys
01-12-2025 11:38 AM

By EDWARD DOWD

 


Columnist Tolley M. Jones: Too Much
01-09-2025 6:01 AM

By TOLLEY M. JONES

I have been told that I am “too much” throughout my life. I suppose I agree with this assessment, because I conversely have always looked around me and felt deeply that the people around me were “not enough.”


Guest columnist Allen Woods: Has ‘big insurance’ declared war on unhealthy Americans?
01-05-2025 12:00 PM

By ALLEN WOODS

No one except the most extreme political or religious fanatics encourages or embraces murder. Its prohibition is a bedrock value in every society and stated explicitly in laws, and religious and moral teachings.But, of course, there are exceptions....


They get along swimmingly: 2025 calendar celebrates Franklin County YMCA water fitness class
01-03-2025 10:47 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A rollicking group who bonded through a class at Franklin County’s YMCA in Greenfield have produced a calendar for 2025 that celebrates beautiful humans in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Let’s meet some water nymphs who could grace your wall if you get...


Guest columnist Al Norman: Happy Nuke Year for tech kings, industry
01-01-2025 12:41 PM

By AL NORMAN

Executives in the nuclear power industry are clinking glasses this New Year’s Day, with high hopes to make nuclear great again in 2025. Technology industry barons, from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos, are green-scrubbing nukes to make them presentable as a...


Ahmad Esfahani: UFOs? Humbug!
12-30-2024 7:42 PM

Those with a more exploratory palate are perhaps enjoying the smells of clove, allspice, and cinnamon mixing with the recently hyped aroma of UFO-related malarkey. Instead of three wise men, we get Tom DeLonge, Steven Greer and Elon Musk telling yarns...


Guest columnist Daniel Cantor Yalowitz: Growing through curiosity
12-27-2024 2:24 PM

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — UnknownWe are born into the world unknowing but highly curious. It is our curiosity that enables us to survive our earliest hours and days. At birth we lack the vocabulary to express...


Arts Briefs: Bach and rock in Northampton, cumbia in Amherst, and more
12-26-2024 6:01 AM

Auditions for ‘Love Letters’ The volunteer theater company Valley Players will hold auditions for the play “Love Letters” by appointment only on Monday, Jan. 6, and Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst.The show,...


Erica Avery: Column on gender care for children opens discussion
12-25-2024 11:13 PM

Thank you for publishing Karen Bercovici’s guest column on gender care for children [“We need to rethink ‘gender-affirming care’ for our children,” Nov. 14], and the responses to it, many of which amount to “Don’t talk about this.” But anyone who...


Guest columnist Allen Woods: Enduring the darkness, welcoming the light
12-22-2024 12:44 PM

By ALLEN WOODS

 Judging by the number of cultures and religions that celebrate the winter solstice, I guess my yearly November-into-December slump isn’t just about me. Nearly every group has a holiday associated with the pivotal day, although the celebrated event...

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