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Columnist Olin Rose-Bardawil: Treatment of Christians should shake faith in Netanyahu
02-14-2025 8:01 AM

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, one of the groups to that came out in strongest support for Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas was the American evangelical Christian community. In light of the events, this was a completely understandable response; Hamas’ attacks on Israeli soil were beyond tragic and were particularly alarming among American Christians and Jews, for whom Israel is of unique religious significance.

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Columnist Dr. David Gottsegen: Warning — Trump poses potent risk to health
02-13-2025 7:43 PM

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

The week of Jan. 20, 2025, made history in a way few Americans realize. For the first time in 128 years, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, originally called Public Health Reports, was not published due to a gag order placed on all federal agencies by the new president.


Local leaders praise gov’s sweeping muni bill as way to reduce fiscal pressures; uphill battle in Legislature looms
02-13-2025 5:42 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

A plan by Gov. Maura Healey aimed at helping municipal governments reduce fiscal pressures and better serve communities at the local level is winning praise from mayors and town administrators in Hampshire County — athough like last year, the legislation is likely to face an uphill climb in the Legislature.


Amherst-Pelham union factions spar as school committees take up Herman accusations
02-13-2025 5:40 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Members of the Amherst Pelham Education Association remain divided over whether to offer support to Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman in the face of an ongoing investigation, led by the Regional and Union 26 school committees, into accusations of mismanagement and abusive behavior in the central office.


UMass hockey: Huge home-and-home for Minutemen with top-ranked Boston College
02-13-2025 4:03 PM

By RYAN AMES

If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best, and that’s exactly what the No. 16 UMass hockey team hopes to do in a home-and-home with top-ranked Boston College this weekend.


Jo-Ann Fabric in Hampshire Mall faces closure as chain preps for sale
02-13-2025 3:36 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A fabric, yarn and craft supply store that has been part of the Hampshire Mall since the Route 9 shopping center opened in 1978 is likely to close as part of a corporate restructuring.


Documentary screening, discussion delves into Northampton’s complex truth with slavery
02-13-2025 3:29 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Residents were given an opportunity to learn about their city’s role in the history of slavery in the United States, viewing short documentary films and discussing the topic of reparations on Tuesday at Edwards Church.


Derailment cleanup underway in Wendell; rail cars carrying mostly paper goods
02-13-2025 3:25 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Cleanup has begun at the site of a freight train derailment that sent 15 railroad cars carrying non-hazardous merchandise off the tracks Tuesday afternoon.


Embracing used clothing: UMass students finding success with new thrift, consignment shop
02-13-2025 3:24 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A consignment store to serve college campuses, offering inexpensive clothes and low-priced household items, was an idea hatched by students in a University of Massachusetts classroom.


Track project at Amherst Regional High School gets green light, work to begin in June
02-13-2025 11:42 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Construction on a new track and field at Amherst Regional High School, at a cost of $4.11 million, should begin in late June.


Around Amherst: Eight days of WinterFest kicks off in North Amherst
02-13-2025 11:25 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — WinterFest Amherst, being called eight days of frosty fun, is beginning with cold-weather games and activities at Mill River Recreation Area and the Mill District in North Amherst on Saturday afternoon.


Lights, camera, Eastworks: Photographer and model couple open a new studio in Easthampton
02-13-2025 9:26 AM

By ALEXA LEWIS

The story of David Heisler and Crystal Truehart Heisler is something straight out of Hollywood: A model and a photographer meet on the set of “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” reality TV show, fall in love and spend years building careers in the bustling cities of Los Angeles and Austin. Now, seeking a change of pace, the couple has returned to Truehart Heisler’s hometown of Southampton, and Heisler is looking to add a bold new edge to Easthampton’s arts scene with the opening of his new Eastworks studio space, theStudio x DavidHeisler.


UMass men’s basketball: Davidson’s Reed Bailey scores 21 points as Wildcats take down Minutemen, 77-68 (PHOTOS)
02-12-2025 10:13 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Through about 13 minutes of action, it looked as if the UMass men’s basketball team was going to do something very few teams have done all season: shut down Davidson forward Reed Bailey, who leads the Atlantic 10 in points per game (20.0) this year.


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.


Emmett Barcalow: Acting like America’s Mussolini
02-12-2025 9:02 PM

Given his actions, there can be no doubt that Donald Trump is bent on increasing the power and authority of the president well beyond the limits set by the Constitution. Virtually no Republican office-holder is courageous enough to resist this usurpation of power, despite their oath to “support and defend” the Constitution.


Jean A. MacKimmie: UMass working on and providing housing solutions
02-12-2025 9:02 PM

In a recent article, John Hornik, a former chair of the Amherst Housing Trust, incorrectly asserted that the university “has severely restricted housing for families on campus while only providing a small boost in graduate student housing” [“Nonprofit developers say cost, siting chief barriers to affordable housing in Valley,”Gazette, Jan. 29]. While housing availability and affordability are undeniably challenges that must be addressed, both locally and statewide, UMass Amherst is working to provide concrete solutions.


Chris Fowles: Who else benefits from foreign assistance
02-12-2025 9:02 PM

To answer the question, where does the money for foreign assistance really go, think about these facts.


Liz Brown: Oath breakers
02-12-2025 9:02 PM

When Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, became a medical doctor in 1983, earning a degree from LSU School of Medicine, he had to have sworn to uphold some iteration of the Hippocratic Oath. Not all medical schools share the same language, though most people assume that “do no harm” is elemental. Perhaps it’s only aspirational; after all, everyone — no matter their profession — inevitably does harm in the execution of their work.


Major housing project at St. Mary’s site in downtown Northampton headed to Planning Board
02-12-2025 7:20 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A long-awaited plan to develop the prominent Elm Street property where the former St. Mary’s Church is located downtown will come before the Planning Board on Thursday night, as developers are poised to outline their plans for a project that will include 71 market-rate apartments, a future cafe and a 37-car garage.


Efforts renewed to return Lampson Brook Farm in Belchertown to Nipmucs
02-12-2025 7:16 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Four years after an online petition garnered more than 5,200 signatures in favor of Massachusetts returning 430 acres of state-owned land in Belchertown known as the Lampson Brook Farm to the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, a new House bill proposes giving the tribe authorization to steward a majority of the farm and forestland.


Healey seeks controls as home care costs soar
02-12-2025 2:17 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is proposing to limit spending on a rapidly growing home care program that is popular among the state’s expanding senior population but has become one of the state’s most expensive budget items.

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