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April was National Volunteer Month, a time to recognize the approximately 25% of Americans who perform some type of formal volunteer work in our country. In the U.S., many volunteers support the causes of hunger and homelessness, however volunteer...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — Four towns were disincorporated and dismantled, and another eight had land stripped from them, to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the first half of the 20th century.People were forced to find new homes and the valley was flooded with water...

Like letter writer Gail Hornstein, I was saddened by the eloquent column written by Holyoke resident and parent, Patrick O’Connor [“Soccer team runs into white bias,” Gazette, April 15]. As a pediatrician who has had cared for children and families of...

By MICHAEL CAROLAN

A fine article [“A Relic Returned,” Gazette, March 29] regarding the return of Justus Dwight’s powder horn to Belchertown’s Stone House Museum, whose Tom Stockton was among representatives receiving items that were stolen 50 years ago.It’s important...

Northampton tree plantings Saturday, whip giveway FridayNORTHAMPTON — Volunteers from a number of organizations will plant 17 trees at Leeds Elementary School on Saturday as part of an Earth Day program taking place for the second straight year. The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Ty Bogdanovich joined Belchertown’s boys volleyball program to help grow his vertical leap for basketball season.Orioles coach Chris Shea hooked the now-senior when he was a sophomore, leaning on their longstanding relationship that dates back to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SPRINGFIELD – The Belchertown boys volleyball team isn’t there yet, but the Orioles aren’t far away.Belchertown erased multiple double-digit deficits in a 3-1 loss Monday at Putnam playing without its starting libero. Seniors Ty Bogdanovich and Connor...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Was anyone surprised that co-coaches Sean MacDonald and Courtney Parent were able to take a group who had never played volleyball before and in just a few months turn them into Western Mass. champions? With the success MacDonald and Parent have had...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Luke Giguere nearly stopped swimming before his junior season at Belchertown.“I didn’t really like it anymore,” the junior said. “I was doing it so much the past six years, every day for the past two years almost.”Both he and the Orioles are glad he...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — School officials at Jabish Brook Middle School have opened an investigation into alleged antisemitic incidents at the school, including the use of the Nazi salute, by a large number of students. The investigation was announced by Brian...

I am of the generation where you would say when addressing a crowd in public, “Ladies and Gentlemen.” To my ear and way of thinking, there is absolutely nothing disrespectful in this phrase. It offers an air of respect.I hear that high school...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

BELCHERTOWN — In the summer of 1971, Michael Corbett, a visitor to the Stone House Museum, arriving with his girlfriend, signed the guestbook and toured the historic building at a time when it still housed three antique powder horns, including one...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

LOWELL – Ryan O’Leary gave himself a terrible view of Pope Francis’ game-winning goal against top-seeded St. John’s Prep.The forward from Easthampton was setting up for a rebound when Nick Petkovich’s snap shot dribbled over the goal line just past...

The Legislature should take action to prevent exposure to the inert perfluoroalkylated substances, (“Bill aims to slow spread of PFAS,” Gazette, Mar. 7), but it should also tackle the flip side of the fluoride coin — the reactive sodium fluoride and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Norwottuck Rail Trail between Station Road in Amherst and Warren Wright Road in Belchertown is being closed until this fall as part of a reconstruction project.On Tuesday, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation...

AMHERST — A man missing for more than a month from Fitchburg may be in Amherst or Belchertown, or a surrounding community, according to Massachusetts State Police.State Police announced via Facebook on Wednesday that they are assisting Fitchburg...

The heroic struggle to speak that Joanna Buoniconti described in her column “The Voice I earned” (Gazette, Feb. 7) reminded me of Dr. Francis Duda, a pediatric pulmonologist at Baystate Medical Center. In my decades of experience as a pediatrician,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SPRINGFIELD – Amherst could only chase a time.The Hurricanes trailed Longmeadow by a point entering the final event of Sunday’s Central/West Girls Swimming & Diving championships, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Amherst, the No. 1 seed and defending...

Thank you John Paradis! Great piece of journalism (“American’s love for football defines us,” Recorder, Feb. 9). Fun to read, meaningful to consider and important to impact.Our nation is seduced into the vicarious thrill of football violence. We’re...

By David Gottsegen

With the approaching anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked onslaught on Ukraine, I think back to the Dec 5 column in the Gazette by the Rev. Peter Kakos on “defusing Ukraine.” He wrote of his hopes for an “irenic” peace, a hope that “both warring...