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By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A Southampton couple who say they were rejected as prospective foster parents because of their religious views on homosexuality and gender identity are suing a dozen representatives of the state Department of Children and...

Time is ticking on our heating planet; yet we seem slow in addressing the problem. The economic competitiveness of capitalism with each nation deciding its own energy policy seems not a strong enough answer to global warming which requires an...

Trump’s strategy is to evade convictions on his most serious indictments by postponing his trials until after the 2024 election. Preferring that millions of voters act as the jurors, he is convinced that he will be elected and can then postpone the...

On Saturday I walked down Union Street in Easthampton. The sight of only tar, concrete, brick, telephone poles and wires is shocking. Additionally, with higher temperatures …. Was this really necessary ? Of course not.Count the trees that have been...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Stubbornness, in part, drives Southampton’s Michael Rejniak in The Basketball Tournament. He’s entering the We Are D3 team in the 2023 edition for the fifth time since 2018. The program is 0-4, losing tight contests to a UCLA alumni team in 2018, a...

I read Ian Rhodewalt’s guest column about student debt with great interest [“Student debt: It doesn’t have to be this way,” Gazette, July 8].He calls upon President Joe Biden to immediately cancel all federally held student debt. He does neglect to...

By JIM PALERMO

It was shocking to learn when doing research for this column that it was not Voltaire who said something like, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.” (Bartlett be damned.) It appears the adage may have been...

By EMILY THURLOW

WESTHAMPTON — During an emotional virtual meeting Thursday night, the leading candidate for an assistant superintendent job at Hampshire Regional School District apologized for controversial Facebook posts about transgender athletes that emerged when...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

An infusion of another $320,000 from the state’s MassTrails Grant Program will bring the design and engineering phase for a new 3½-mile rail trail in Southampton another step closer to completion.Meanwhile, a $60,000 grant will improve the Robert...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — The orange-and-black former Harley-Davidson building is being considered as a temporary processing facility for legal immigrant families and others who might be displaced because of a natural disaster. Town Administrator Ed Gibson said...

It’s curious that in the 37 articles in the Trump indictment there appear to be no explicit references to espionage in the service of a foreign government, industrial espionage in the service of a corporation, or even a provable intent to the same....

Who wins the awards for the most hypocritical or most steadfast in the Trump orbit? With the unsealing of each indictment, release of incriminating tape recordings and media interviews of witnesses, the MAGA loyalists and previously allied officials...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — As a self-professed dilettante, Johanna Rodriguez Douglass feels especially comfortable surrounded by stacks of stories at the Edwards Public Library.Douglass began settling into her role as the director of the Southampton library last...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The Chamber of Greater Easthampton is hosting a women’s leadership conference on June 16 featuring several speakers who will share their personal stories and insights on leadership, career development, and understanding the power of...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — The town will soon have around the clock paramedic service and police coverage after voters narrowly approved a $332,500 Proposition 2½ override at Tuesday’s municipal election.The approval, by a vote of 441-352, will give the town the...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — The leader of the town’s Finance Committee has resigned after a rocky budget season, saying that the panel doesn’t have enough volunteers to meet its obligations and that even if it did, the town often provides out-of-date or inaccurate...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — Susan Teece regularly wears a necklace with a chrome-colored heart charm. Though the piece of jewelry might not be considered flashy, it is attention-grabbing as many strangers often strike up a conversation about it. What many don’t...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — As one of the smaller municipalities in the region, the town relies on part-time employees to maintain police, fire and emergency medical services.However, in the last decade, Southampton’s call volume has nearly doubled and finding...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — Residents who question the town’s portion of Hampshire Regional School District’s budget succeeded in convincing a majority of voters at last week’s annual Town Meeting to vote down that section of the $20 million annual operating...

The MAGA base was fed red meat, the audience was entertained and enthralled, and CNN lost all credibility as a fair and balanced news channel It’s difficult to determine what aspect of Wednesday night’s Donald Trump town hall spectacle was most...