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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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