opinion

In Our Opinion: Highway to future?

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

Flyover ramps? Though a year and a half have passed since the last meeting of a group tracking a major reconstruction of Interstate Route 91 in Northampton, don't count this project out.

In Our Opinion: Fix sewer backup

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

Fall ends Dec. 20. That's the new date by which the Northampton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center promises to solve a long-standing problem with sewer backups in its Bridge Road neighborhood.

'Food insecurity' real, but not hunger

AP Wire — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

This week an Agriculture Department study showed that 16.4 million U.S. households containing 49.1 million people experienced "food insecurity" in 2008, up from 12.2 million households containing 36.2 million people in 2007. Fortunately, Congress has already addressed some of the problem with a significant food-stamp boost in the stimulus package adopted in February.

The mammography debate: Why early breast cancer detection remains essential, regardless of age

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

NORTHAMPTON - The morbidity and mortality (pain, suffering and rate of death) due to breast cancer has diminished in the past 10 years. This decrease is in part due to preventive hormonal and chemotherapy (given to women at high risk for developing recurrent breast cancer) but in large part to early detection by annual mammography.

Presence of breast cancer in women in 40s is very real

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

To the editor:

The recent recommendations about changing the guidelines for screening mammography come as a surprise to me.

Self-exam may have saved Florence woman's life

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

To the editor:

Hilltown Crop Walk fundraiser tops $12K

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

To the editor:

This year's Hilltown Crop Walk, which included the towns of Chester, Chesterfield, Cummington, Haydenville, Huntington, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg and Worthington, was held at the Williamsburg Congregational Church Oct. 18.