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Dressed to impress: Monte Belmonte provides insight on costumes from 15 fundraising marches
11-15-2024 10:19 AM

By JULIAN MENDOZA

Making his way from Springfield to Greenfield during his annual walk to raise money for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, local radio personality Christopher “Monte” Belmonte looks to increase the visibility of one of the country’s greatest...

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Get your money’s worth: Dealers warn against increase in fake coins
11-05-2024 2:21 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Coin experts across the region are sounding the alarm about an influx of fakes manufactured in China and infiltrating the U.S. market.Chinese-made counterfeits of collector and circulating coins are more rampant than ever, according to...


Jennifer Atlee: Easy ways to curb disinformation
11-04-2024 4:16 PM

If you’re on social media or know people who are (hint: that’s all of us), you can help create a saner country. How? By helping to combat disinformation.We are being encouraged to hate and fear each other. This isn’t one-sided, and it’s especially...


Barry De Jasu: Holding nose and voting for Harris
10-31-2024 4:32 PM

Firstly, let me state that I will hold my nose and vote for candidate Kamala Harris, as the alternative is just too horrible to entertain. But as we get nearer I question more and more the wisdom and vision of Harris and the mainstream Dems. In this...


Guest columnist H. Patricia Hynes: Water and war in Gaza
10-03-2024 4:33 PM

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

 In late 2020, a report titled “Saving Gaza Begins with its Water” stated:“The water crisis in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the more than 2 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave ... The aquifer from...


Karun Das Moss: Second Walk for Peace
10-02-2024 6:48 PM

On Sunday, Oct. 6, the Village of Light Ashram in Leverett is sponsoring its second Walk for Peace. This walk, beginning at the Leverett Elementary School and ending at the Village of Light Ashram, is meant to include everyone. It is a testimony of...


Making ‘a positive impact for our rivers’: Source to Sea Cleanup returns this weekend
09-25-2024 3:51 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

The Source to Sea Cleanup has provided a valuable service to the Connecticut River Valley since its 1997 inception. And it can provide receipts.Nearly 40,000 volunteers have removed 1,100 tons of trash, almost 14,000 tires and 144,000 beverage...


Turning ‘blight into might’: Sen. Markey speaks on Strathmore mill demolition funding
07-21-2024 9:02 AM

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — U.S. Sen. Ed Markey visited the Strathmore mill complex alongside Environmental Protection Agency representatives and local officials on Thursday to celebrate the combined $10 million in funding for the complex’s demolition and site...


Dr. Constance Lentz: Forest-derived biomass is a burning health issue
06-11-2024 6:38 PM

As a physician who has spent 30-plus years practicing in the Pioneer Valley I saw many patients suffer and die from lung disease. Wood burning was often a factor, and one of the questions I’d ask of a patient with a respiratory illness was whether...


Amherst town official tapped for Montague’s assistant town admin job
05-25-2024 1:21 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

MONTAGUE — The Selectboard voted unanimously this week to select Greenfield resident Athena O’Keeffe as its next assistant town administrator, taking over for Walter Ramsey when he assumes sitting Town Administrator Steve Ellis’ position on July 1.The...


Valley lawmakers seek shorter license for FirstLight hydropower projects
05-09-2024 8:03 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

TURNERS FALLS — Area lawmakers are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to limit the relicensing of FirstLight’s hydropower projects from 50 years to 30 years and to mandate the company disclose more data to the public about its...


Barry De Jasu: Where is the line?
03-14-2024 2:46 PM

The Netanyahu government has used the unexplained, little-defended Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 as an opportunity to slaughter and starve the entire Palestinian population. It has done this with the unceasing supply of U.S. weaponry and money.The...


Guest columnist H. Patricia Hynes: On women’s equality
03-07-2024 2:47 PM

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

On March 8, 1908, women garment workers marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions and to demand women’s suffrage. By 1910, March 8 became observed annually as International Women’s Day and...


Four-alarm blaze at Red Fire Farm in Granby causes an estimated $1M in damages
02-18-2024 5:02 PM

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

GRANBY — A blaze engulfed Red Fire Farm’s barn and farm store on Carver Street on Saturday afternoon, leaving the west side of the barn “completely obliterated” and causing an estimated $1 million in damages, according to co-owner Ryan...


Play it again, Sam: Shea Theater to show ‘Lovejoy’s Nuclear War’ to mark 50th anniversary of Montague tower toppling
02-09-2024 12:21 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

In the fall of 1973, Wendell resident Dan Keller drove to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut to pick up friend Sam Lovejoy and mentioned to his pal that he wouldn’t believe what had been built back home on the Montague Plains.The two drove...


Guest columnist H. Patricia Hynes: Let’s restore Armistice Day — a day for peace
11-09-2023 2:32 PM

By H. PAT HYNES

November 11 — at the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” — marks 105 years since the World War 1 Armistice, which ended the nightmare of the deadliest war in history until then. The brutality of that first industrial war robbed 20 million...


David Short: Is anybody home?
09-24-2023 2:57 PM

So the state’s Division of Occupational Licensure has made it illegal for Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, whose job it is to train students to safely operate in the workplace, to safely train students in the operation of hoisting...


State of Florida man arrested, charged in Turners Falls shooting case
08-31-2023 9:34 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Florida man who was the subject of an hourslong search Tuesday after allegedly shooting a Turners Falls man in the thigh was arrested as a vehicle passenger in Holyoke later that day and arraigned in Greenfield District Court...


Youths from Westhampton program discover human remains on Rawson Island in Greenfield
08-25-2023 4:40 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Authorities are working to identify human remains found this week on Rawson Island by children enrolled in an environmental philosophy program based in Westhampton.Laurie Loisel, spokesperson with the Northwestern district attorney’s...


Deerfield woman pleads not guilty in Superior Court to stabbing elderly man
08-07-2023 3:05 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague had her charges and conditions of release transferred to Franklin County Superior Court on Friday due to the case’s...


Guest columnists H. Patricia Hynes and Timmon Wallis: Warheads to Windmills 
08-03-2023 3:41 PM

By H. PATRICIA HYNES and TIMMON WALLIS

While planning this piece last month, July 3-6 set a record for the hottest world average temperatures yet measured. Western Massachusetts was saturated almost daily with heavy humidity and rain, and floods devastated $10 million worth of farm crops....

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