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By DAVID SLOVITER

The continuing effort by Town Councilors Mandi Jo Hanneke and Pat DeAngelis to push through their unnecessary, damaging, and misguided zoning changes is perplexing. The guest column n the June 17 Gazette [“Restoring the missing middle in Amherst...

By DAVID ALPERN

I am writing to strongly advocate for the reinstatement of universal face-masking in health care settings, to protect patients, health care staff, and visitors alike.With nearly five decades of work in medicine, and over 30 years as a board-certified...

By ROB OKUN

Women’s activism, including mothers in leadership roles, is legendary. Moms have long employed their moral authority as parents to advance the social good.Where are the fathers and grandfathers? We care about our children and grandchildren, too. As...

By RAZVAN SIBII

Who said, “I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally”? Was it one of those bleeding-heart liberals who want open borders and have no respect for how...

By SARA WEINBERGER

On June 19, 1865, two months and 10 days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War, and two years and 18 days after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union...

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

From the Norwottuck Rail Trail here at home to the Grand Canyon in the West, beauty abounds in the natural world. It’s found in places big and small — some well-known, others our secret respites from the modern world. Almost all are well-loved, and...

By KAREN GARDNER

Hey, Boss, guess what, I just checked the mail, and you’ve been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami!I have?!? Oh wow, they’ve finally done it! I’ve been waiting for this for years and it sure looked like they’d never get their acts together. Ok,...

By JOHN PEPI

Regarding Matthew Muspratt’s column “Working where ‘field’ defines ‘the other,’” [Gazette, June 5], I appreciated this thoughtful and non-recriminating commentary that sheds light on the thought processes and experience of development professionals...

By ROB MOIR

A wheezing noise has emanated from Capitol Hill in Washington of late. It is a last gasp to stop America’s progress on the climate crisis.House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., recently said the following to Fox...

For those of you who have faithfully read my columns, you know that I rarely write about contentious political issues. There are many reasons why I choose not to do this, but the primary one is that the most prominent political issues are also the...

By MATTHEW MUSPRATT

The recent furor over the Smith College School for Social Work’s decision to retire the word “field” from certain program descriptions for its racial “negative associations” has, perhaps predictably, sounded of America’s sharpest, most current...

By JOHN HOWARD

In March 2023, following a decade of scientific study, stakeholder engagement, collaboration and negotiation, FirstLight Power filed the “Flows and Fish Passage Settlement Agreement” as part of the relicensing of the Turners Falls Hydroelectric and...

By BARRY ROTH

In a recent New York Times column, David Wallace-Wells criticized the current environmental movement for losing its passion for protecting the natural world for its own sake. Instead, he pointed out, a large faction of environmentalists are focused on...

By SARAH BUTTENWIESER and ALICE BARBER

We have been wondering what parents need to hear right about now. This month marks the declared “end” of the COVID crisis. It is a time of implied “get-on-with-its” and “that-was-then-this-is-nows.”Overall, our society tends not to think very...

By JOE BLUMENTHAL

When the Pleasant Street Theater closed in 2012, a new use had to be found for the space. As the owner of the building, I made a deal with the owner of McLadden’s, a Connecticut restaurant chain, to take over the space. At the end of a considerable...

The Northampton Agricultural Commission is an advisory group, composed of farmers who represent and advocate for the farming community in greater Northampton. Over the years we have heard again and again from struggling farmers that the city of...

By JOHN PARADIS

May is National Military Appreciation Month. Designated by Congress in 1999 to honor past and present military members and their families, the month includes several commemorations, including Loyalty Day, VE Day, Military Spouse Appreciation Day,...

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

In the wee hours of the morning of April 14, when it was forecast to be a record-crushing 95 degrees, I met my intern Erica in the parking lot of the Big Y in Palmer. Together, we carpooled to Somerset, on Massachusetts’ south coast for a 9 a.m....

Editor’s note: The following column is in response to recent letters and guest columns about J.M Sorrell’s May 3 column “Misogyny as entertainment and entitlement.” By J.M. SORRELL I was a guest columnist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette for many...

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...