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By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT
Northampton’s purchase of the old First Baptist Church in June 2023 for $3.175 million, twice its market value at the time according to a privately funded independent reappraisal, was a huge blunder. The concept of a “resilience hub” as a day drop-in...
By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT
On Jan. 5, 2023, the Northampton City Council celebrated the new year by allocating $1 million to each of Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra’s two trophy projects: “Picture Main Street” and the Resilience Hub. These amounts were drawn from the COVID-era...
By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT
The idealized future Main Street visualized in the city’s computer images will not magically just happen. How will the city and state manage years of construction impacts on traffic congestion, on downtown businesses, on emergency vehicle access, on...
By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT
As a 50-year subscriber and occasional contributor, I am one of the Gazette’s most loyal fans. However, I was underwhelmed by the July 22 front-page story “Watch Out for Cars” that seems to bend over backwards to try to portray our treasured...
By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT
Amid the deluge of political, war, and economic news, a new report from Antarctica caught my attention: Floating pack ice surrounding the frozen continent has shrunk to the smallest extent since monitoring by satellite began in 1979.As reported in The...
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