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Guest columnist Marietta Pritchard: Landlines and more in our parallel universe

04-28-2024 10:55 PM

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

 Recent news reports and events have reminded me that my husband and I are living in a parallel universe. We use a landline and we read print newspapers, which are delivered to our house daily.I have and use a cellphone, but my husband does not. He...


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Guest columnist Lawrence Pareles: Make completing FAFSA form a high school graduation requirement

04-28-2024 10:55 PM

By LAWRENCE PARELES

 I’m writing to recommend that Massachusetts make a new requirement for high school graduation — completion of the FAFSA student aid form. This simple rule would encourage and help more young people go to college.In Massachusetts, where the demand for...


Guest columnist Dr. Meghan Gump: Dear Patients — We hear you!

04-28-2024 10:55 PM

By DR. MEGHAN GUMP

 As a family practitioner and the medical director of Valley Medical Group, I care deeply about my patients and our community. During my 20 years of practicing full-spectrum primary care in Franklin County, I have come to value the relationships I...


Daniel Barker: Time for peace in Ukraine

04-28-2024 10:53 PM

Like the letter of April 16 [“More fuding for Ukraine not the answer”] about the war in Ukraine, I too think we must stop prolonging this conflict and carnage with more and more weapons, and urge Ukraine to negotiate a cease-fire and a political...


Jenny Fleming-Ives and Peter Ives: Community must come together to fairly fund schools, city services

04-28-2024 10:53 PM

We commend Bill Dwight for the historical perspective he provides in his guest column “How to make sense of Northampton’s school budget,” [Gazette, April 20].We are huge supporters of the Northampton Public Schools. Our four daughters all graduated...


Annette Pfannebecker: Vote yes for Shores Ness and for Deerfield

04-26-2024 3:15 PM

It’s a fact: Carolyn Shores Ness is committed to enhancing all aspects of life in Deerfield. Through her eagle eye on fiscal responsibility, she has supported businesses, farms, education, health and safety, seniors, roads and infrastructure,...


Charlene Galenski: Blake Gilmore, a strong candidate for Deerfield’s Selectboard

04-26-2024 3:15 PM

On May 6, Deerfield will have its annual election for local positions. Blake Gilmore is running as a candidate for Selectboard.Deerfield is facing some financially challenging times. Over the past few years, the town has voted to finance several...


Columnist Susan Wozniak: Rising costs long ago swamped hippie ideal

04-25-2024 4:58 PM

By SUSAN WOZNIAK

I have never been a high wage earner. Thirty thousand dollars was my ceiling, although it was never my choice.More to the point, I strongly believed in the “how to balance family and work” plan popular among baby boomers during the late ’60s and into...


Guest columnist Rudy Perkins: Dangerous resolution pins ‘aggression’ on Iran

04-25-2024 4:31 PM

By RUDY PERKINS

 Both the Iranian government’s bombing of Israel and the Israeli government’s bombing of Iran are extremely perilous for the Middle East and the United States. That is why the dangerously one-sided U.S. congressional resolution, H.Res. 1143,...


David Kirk: Northampton schools spending beyond means

04-25-2024 4:29 PM

Many thanks to Bill Dwight for his guest column providing background info about the school budget [“How to make sense of Northampton’s school budget dilemma,” Gazette, April 20].We now all know the school has added 99 positions since 2014 (including...


Richard Clifford: We all need to look in a mirror first

04-25-2024 4:29 PM

No matter a person’s bias against another due to gender, religion, race, sexuality or politics, not one person has the right in our truly free country to wound, impair or abuse another. We all put on our socks the same way. No matter your wealth,...


Columnist Carrie N. Baker: A moral justification for civil disobedience to abortion bans

04-24-2024 4:48 PM

By CARRIE N. BAKER

Over the last several years, in response to abortion bans and restrictions, advocates around the country have developed an alternative supply network for abortion pills outside of the medical system and the law. As a lawyer and law-abiding citizen, I...


Guest columnists Ellen Attaliades and Lynn Ireland: Housing crisis is fueling the human services crisis

04-24-2024 4:47 PM

By ELLEN ATTALIADES and LYNN IRELAND

 Vacancies at programs operated by human services providers — despite some progress over the last two years — are still much too high. More than one in four direct support professional positions in adult residential and day programs for people with...


Lora Sandhusen: Discourage ultra-wealthy consumption habits with carbon tax

04-24-2024 4:46 PM

In Russ Vernon-Jones’ column “Solving humanity’s shared climate crisis” [Gazette, March 14], he advocates funding green projects for the Global South by taxing the ultra-wealthy. Why? Because “that’s where the money is.” In response, guest columnist...


Guest columnist Jena Schwartz: Things I have not said

04-23-2024 6:32 PM

By JENA SCHWARTZ

 I continue to be consumed by the Israel-Hamas war. I read, watch, write, pray, dream, agonize, and do my best to engage in intentional and nuanced conversations about it. And yet there remain things I have not said.Or things I have said by...


Wendy Parrish: Northampton Volunteer Fair

04-23-2024 6:27 PM

Volunteers help make Northampton run! They save us tax money, help us to know our neighbors, and provide an outlet for us to help others using their skills. And the best part is that we can fit the volunteer work around our schedules, rather than the...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Still No. 1 in male mass shootings 25 years after Columbine

04-23-2024 6:26 PM

By ROB OKUN

 Fortunately, there wasn’t a copycat mass shooting to grotesquely mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999. But just as we can be certain there will be another solar eclipse, it’s only a matter of time before a hail of...


Guest columnist Oriel Strong: Think impossible thoughts

04-22-2024 5:03 PM

By ORIEL STRONG

Mariel E. Addis’s April 17 guest column “Under siege from all sides” was heartfelt and thought-provoking. I share Addis’ foundational ethic that we must resist ranking any human being as better or worse than another. Trans and gender-nonconforming...


Guest columnist Barry Hirsch: Palestinians should turn to Israel for real path to peace

04-22-2024 5:03 PM

By BARRY HIRSCH

Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Mohammad Mustafa to be the new prime minister. Here is the speech I would love to hear him give: It is time that we admit that we made a mistake in 1948 when we decided that Israel...


Patricia Crosby: Meeting of Friends call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza

04-22-2024 5:03 PM

By PATRICIA CROSBY

 As Friends (Quakers), we respect the humanity of all people, which is why we have sought nonviolent responses to conflict anywhere. Our experience teaches us that violence only creates hatred, fear, hopelessness, and endless new cycles of war and...



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