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By BILL NEWMAN

First, they came for people they called “illegals.” There was initial resistance, but many people who were not at risk did not speak out because they felt exhausted and distraught, could barely watch or read the news and believed nothing they said or...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Nearly two years after its creation, the Northampton Commission for the Study of Reparations has released its preliminary report on how to address historic wrongs against Black residents and workers in the city, which proposes both...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Oscar Schiff had been at the front of the pack for much of the boys 2-mile race during the early session of the first PVIAC indoor track meet of the season on Thursday afternoon, but Longmeadow’s Henry Sacco passed Schiff, a Hampshire...

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

If you look at American public health data from the past few decades, one thing will be very clear: Americans are sicker now than perhaps at any time in our history.An estimated 129 million people in the U.S. have at least 1 major chronic disease,...

By KEVIN LAKE

After spending too much money and too many hours on the campaign, I felt stunned at the outcome. But as I thought more, I realized that the outcome had really been decades in the making and all the “inside baseball” Democratic commentary about the...

Musical theater karaokeCan you sing some “Sweeney,” croon some “Cats,” or belt some “Beetlejuice?”Easthampton Theater Company will host Musical Theater Karaoke at New City Brewery in Easthampton on Saturday, Dec. 14. Sign-ups start at 7 p.m.; singing...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — More than a year after putting it on the market, the city still hasn’t been able to sell what should be a covetous piece of downtown real estate. The property, 33 King St., is located across from Hotel Northampton and 150 feet from The...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After protesting in front of the offices of politicians and on colleges campuses, local activists opposing the ongoing war in Gaza have set their sights on local health care institutions.On Tuesday, around 20 demonstrators stood outside...

In his Dec. 5 guest column (“Hard truths or easy lies after the election”), Joe Gannon laid out important context for us to consider regarding developments in Washington. However, although he made it clear that Trump’s claim of a “sweeping mandate”...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

CHESTERFIELD — A Chesterfield man died early Sunday morning after being critically injured when his snowmobile hit a tree. Derek Graves, 37, was snowmobiling with a friend around 1:30 a.m. near Smith Road in Chesterfield. Graves’s friend, who was not...

We write in strong opposition to the requested expansion of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, and ask that you consider these significant financial and equity concerns.A primary issue is financial. In the years since PVCICS last...

Most people I know are upset by the reelection of a convicted felon who scapegoats immigrants to further enrich himself and the billionaire class while pretending to represent working-class people. Sadness, fear, and anger are natural reactions to the...

For a fleeting second, I had a dewy-eyed dream that in the waning days of the current administration, Biden might do something bold and beautiful. Like, say, signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and starting a real dialogue between...

Of all of Donald Trump’s policy proposals, the one I find most baffling is his endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to overhaul our food industry. The idea that highly processed, high-calorie fast foods are the major cause of the obesity...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Runners flooded downtown Sunday in solidarity against domestic violence in what turned out to be a record-breaking year for Safe Passage’s 21st Hot Chocolate Run.The run exceeded the nonprofit’s goal of $800,000, garnering a total of...

By SARAH BUTTENWIESER

 The other night, I hopped onto the hybrid meeting the Northampton City Council’s Finance Committee hosted, the second of two listening sessions, held for the second year in a row. I was enormously moved by the range of concerns and priorities...

By MORGAN SHEEHAN

It is not time for a spa day.Self-care. Me time. Wine o’clock. Pants that make your butt look fabulous.None of that is going to help.Robert Putnam tried to warn us in 2000 with his book “Bowling Alone,” early in the crisis of American loneliness, but...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Standing Together presents a third way to treating the war in Gaza — a solution that neither involves rooting on the Star of David with Zionist ardor, nor endorses Hamas by seeing them as innocent rebels against a colonizing overlord.If...

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

Walking into the Baker’s Pin, you are greeted by cheerful decor, beautiful colorful pots and an array of cooking gadgets. It is a home cook’s paradise with everything you could possibly need, from Le Creuset pots to artisan olive oil to high quality...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — On Sunday morning, thousands will wake up, tie their sneakers, grab some hot chocolate, and line up at 8 a.m. on Hampton Avenue and Old South Street for Safe Passage’s 21st annual Hot Chocolate Run.The annual hot chocolate 5k is the...

Soon history may repeat itself with the images of the brown shirts of 1938, and will the silence of that time be repeated? I will not be silent as our immigrants — lawful or so-called unlawful — are rounded up, broken up, herded, and deported and I...