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By KAREN GARDNER

Once upon a time, a fellow named Mitch, a Republican who happened to be the Senate majority leader, decided that despite a few centuries of tradition and principle, he would create a new way of doing things. It wasn’t even a rule, just a principle...

By PENNY SCHULTZ

Kudos to the Gazette for the invaluable civic work of covering State Auditor Diana Dizoglio’s forum in Williamsburg. Western Massachusetts doesn’t get a whole lot of attention from the state, so this visit by our new, feisty, change-making state...

By ANDREA AYVAZIAN

Every joke, stereotype, and snide comment you have ever heard about 50th college reunions is true. I should know, I attended my 50th Oberlin College reunion in Ohio in May. It really was a bunch of old people in awful outfits with large nametags...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Tom Toski, a longtime fixture of the western Massachusetts golf scene who taught several famous clients how to play the game, died last month in Florida. He was 97. Toski was born in 1925 to Walenty and Mary Algustoski, immigrants from Poland, and was...

By STEVE PFARRER

When he and his wife moved to the Valley in 2005, Edo Mor says he found much to his liking: good bread, good bicycling country, nature and more. But for some time, the kind of eclectic music he liked, from North African guitar sounds to Middle Eastern...

By JAMES PENTLAND

WILLIAMSBURG — A Missouri native and former interim pastor at First Churches of Northampton has been chosen as pastor of Haydenville Congregational Church.Following a unanimous vote by the congregation, the Rev. Mark R. Seifried began his role as a...

By ANDREA AYVAZIAN

Every day around noon, my husband Michael, a political scientist and prolific writer, stops writing at his desk and walks to downtown Northampton for lunch. He always goes to the same place, BalaganCafé, and orders a sandwich and café latte. The...

One of the national TV news networks recently did a series of reports regarding the thwarted plans by Chinese-based Fufeng Group to build a corn milling facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The proposed $700 million project drew national security...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HAYDENVILLE — The Hilltowns have a new Catholic priest.The Rev. Richard Bondi, who has worked in parishes up and down the Pioneer Valley, officially took over as the pastor of Our Lady of the Hills on Aug. 15.His new parish is a large one — stretching...