Tuesday, May 21, 2013
To the editor: The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts and his board should be congratulated on their ambitious campaign to raise $300 million for the university and on the five priorities that seem to be the core of the effort. However something is missing in their vision: …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Residents of Northampton will want to tune in — and fast — to a major revamp being considered in how the city regulates what people can and cannot do with their properties. The city’s Ordinance Committee and Planning Board have been holding public hearings on a package of …
Monday, May 20, 2013
NORTHAMPTON — Conflicts in the Middle East, particularly the long-term Israeli-Palestinian struggle for domination of the land, are perhaps the most intractable human struggles on the planet, fueled as they are by religion, history, politics, economics and access …
Monday, May 20, 2013
To the editor: America is undergoing a profound cultural shift concerning people’s belief about marriage. These changing attitudes are personified by the recent political victory of the formerly disgraced ex-governor of South Carolina, and now congressman, Mark Sanford. Because of the actions of this brave man, America is …
Monday, May 20, 2013
To the editor: At this year’s annual Town Meeting, the town of Westhampton approved the funding to put towards retrofitting our fire department’s Engine 1 with a compressed air foam system (CAFS). This type of innovation and technology has been proven to use significantly less water, thus causing …
Monday, May 20, 2013
To the editor: With the primary over, we have our nominees to fill John Kerry’s Senate seat. On the Democratic side we have Ed Markey, a veteran lawmaker who has worked tirelessly in Congress on progressive issues. Anyone who follows politics knows that change is often slow and …
Monday, May 20, 2013
To the editor: Rents in the Valley have gone sky high. Some low-income and poor families are forced into dire positions. Amherst, Northampton, Easthampton and Southampton have all gone sky high. Where is the human compassion? Landlords want to make money and I understand that, but enough is …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Any way you cut it, what emerges from the din of a federal trial that unfolded this month in U.S. District Court in Worcester is a state probation department that is petty and mean-spirited at best, and highly dysfunctional at worst. The lens through which the community sees …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
NORTHAMPTON — Ordinarily, the streets of Tel Aviv are full of people, congregating in cafés, shopping, or just being seen. However, on Sunday, April 14, my third day in Israel, ordinary unfolded into extraordinary. By 7 p.m., a stillness overcame the streets of this cosmopolitan city. At 7:55 …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
HATFIELD — Spring is in full swing, and this year, I watch the trees bud and flower remembering a true friend of trees with great affection. Barbara “Bobbie” MacLeod died this year; she was a longtime resident of the Valley who carried on a family tradition of planting …
