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Inside the witch house: Horror filmmaking couple Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz Fradkin set their most recent, ‘Beezel,’ in Northampton
10-16-2024 1:15 PM

By JENNIFER LEVESQUE

It’s always spooky season when you have a love for horror movies, scary stories and a curiosity of anything dark and morbid. And fall accentuates that spooky feeling for everyone. Finding a new horror series or collection of movies from a director you...


Arts Briefs: UMass honors Max Roach, open auditions in Easthampton, and more
10-16-2024 1:12 PM

Max Roach Centennial Celebration The University of Massachusetts Amherst community will celebrate the centennial year of acclaimed bandleader, drummer, composer and activist Max Roach with a host of special events from Oct. 20 to 26.One particularly...


First-degree murder trial underway in Northampton
10-15-2024 5:57 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opening statements in the first-degree murder trial of Northampton resident Steven Malloy began on Tuesday, with the prosecution saying that Malloy pulled out a gun during a night of partying inside a Randolph Place apartment in December...


Guest columnist Rob Weir: Gridiron follies at UMass
10-15-2024 4:36 PM

By ROB WEIR

 I recently struck up a conversation with three visitors from 1,200 miles away. They came to watch their alma mater, Missouri, tackle UMass in football. One worried it could be a “tough road game” for Mizzou: “an unfamiliar team in an unfamiliar...


Michael Kowalchuk: Vote Socialist 2024
10-14-2024 5:32 PM

This November, I will proudly vote for Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.Claudia and Karina are activists who know what it’s like to struggle, both personally and politically. Unlike Donald Trump or Kamala...


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...


Columnist John Sheirer: Jesus didn’t stop the bullet for Trump?
10-13-2024 3:15 PM

By JOHN SHEIRER

My wife, Betsy, and I went to bed last night and finished our daily Wordle (third guess, 93 skill, 32 luck). Betsy read a chapter in her book group book while I returned some work emails. Then I surfed social media while Betsy rolled over and fell...


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...


Northampton heads back to drawing board in effort to sell old Registry of Deeds building
10-13-2024 12:01 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Strike two for the former Registry of Deeds building in the heart of downtown. Once again, a bid deadline for the building at 33 King St. has come and gone without an interested buyer.The 1.46-acre property boasts a prime location in...


Guest columnist Tom Weiner: Training spells out — No place for hate
10-12-2024 6:01 AM

By TOM WEINER

 Swastikas in the hallway. “Burn the Jews” at a fire drill. Could this happen in the Northampton schools? It turns out it could and … it did, as I learned from the parents of a student.So that question is tragically answered already this school year,...


Guest columnists Molly Aronson and Louai Abu-Osba: No place for Israeli political rhetoric
10-12-2024 6:01 AM

By MOLLY ARONSON and LOUAI ABU-OSBA

 We are a Palestinian parent of two children in the Northampton school district and a Jewish educator formerly residing in Northampton. We were upset to learn that at a recent professional development training for NPS teachers and staff, supposedly to...


Columnist Bill Newman: The day of decision nears
10-11-2024 3:41 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Many of Donald Trump’s most adamant supporters acknowledge that he is a disgusting racist and misogynist, an inveterate liar, a grifter, and a fraud. But many don’t care or worse, venerate him for exactly these, what shall we call them —...


$1M in grants to repair regional dams flow to region
10-11-2024 8:42 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Repair and removal of existing dams in Hampshire and Franklin counties, along with improvements to Holyoke’s levee control system and repairs to the pump station, are being supported by more than $1.04 million from the state’s Executive...


Columnist Olin Rose-Bardawil: Milleron running as antidote for MIA Rep. Neal
10-10-2024 6:33 PM

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

If you follow national politics, then you know how dysfunctional Congress is. The 118th congressional session has been one of the most unproductive in history; it only passed 27 pieces of legislation in 2023.While some may be quick to blame...


Guest columnist Richard Szlosek: Chopin on the ocean
10-10-2024 6:32 PM

By RICHARD SZLOSEK

 All four of my grandparents were born in Poland, and my father’s parents actually lived with us. Because of that fact, there was often polka music playing on the radio in our house when I was a young boy in the late 1940s.The most popular station was...


Northampton man to go on trial for 2021 murder
10-10-2024 5:05 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opening arguments in the trial of a city man accused of murder in 2021 are set to begin on Tuesday, as selection of the 12 jurors for the case wrapped up in Hampshire Superior Court on Thursday.Steven Malloy, 35, of Northampton, was...


Veronica Darmon: BDS has no place in our local co-op community
10-09-2024 5:16 PM

In a recent guest column, a writer wrote in support of “de-shelving Israeli products” from River Valley [“Co-op deshelving campaign part of global anti-apartheid movement,” Gazette, Sept. 28]. For those who aren’t familiar with the BDS movement — it...


R.F. Conway: Gratitude for Emergency Department support
10-09-2024 5:16 PM

I want to thank the Daily Hampshire Gazette for your coverage of Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s recent topping-off ceremony for the new Emergency Department and the community members who made it possible. I started working at Cooley Dickinson 40 years...


Arts Briefs: Poetry reading, pickleball, Mount Holyoke’s first musical in five years, and more
10-09-2024 12:54 PM

Perugia Press Prize winnerPerugia Press, a Florence-based feminist poetry micro press, recently announced that the book “Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms” by Joan Kwon Glass is the winner of their Perugia Press Prize, which honors poetry books written...


Sonya Rumpf: Honoring heritage through language at ILI
10-08-2024 8:56 PM

Much of what Gazette columnist Susan Wozniak recently wrote about newcomers in this country resonated with me and likely many others [”Newcomers will become part of fabric of country,” Sept. 26]. Wozniak emphasizes the importance of families...

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