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By JIM CAHILLANE

Editor’s note: This column was penned by the late Gazette columnist Jim Cahillane and was first published in the Gazette on Nov. 17, 1993, six days before the 30th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.Recently while rooting around in the...

By JIM CAHILLANE

I was 13 when a local plane crash was news. World War II was over. America’s youth, destined to save democracy, headed home following years of boredom, hell, and travel.Poetry makes for easy summer reading. Pithy passages don’t tire the mind. Like...

By JIM CAHILLANE

Disturbing news stories reveal that white nationalist and other supremacist groups are active in New England. Also, that such activity in liberal Massachusetts ranks second only to Texas. Below the radar, Patriot Front and Oath Keepers are slyly...

By JIM CAHILLANE

Dear President Biden,Please excuse this overdue response to your vice presidential thank you letter of February, 8, 2012. Congressman Richie Neal gave you a copy of my new book, “On History’s Front Steps,” (2011), covering Northampton’s first 350...