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By RUTH LEAHEY

On Nov. 9, the Whately Grange presented a Quilt of Valor and many Patriots Awards to local veterans from Hatfield, Williamsburg, Buckland and other area towns.The handmade Quilt of Valor quilt was presented to retired U.S. Air Force Col. Marcus J....

By RAZVAN SIBII

No. The border isn’t open. Not even close. It’s is full of walls and fences, sensors and cameras, patrol cars and helicopters, rivers and mountains. And running this gauntlet is extremely dangerous business that often costs desperate border-crossers...

By SARA WEINBERGER

Tuesday morning, I’m driving to the Ashley Reservoir in Holyoke to meet a friend for a morning walk. The radio is tuned to NPR. A news brief reports two back-to-back headlines: Officials at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, without power to operate incubators...

By JONATHAN KLATE

I am a Jew.My father and all of my grandparents emigrated from the pale of settlement in Eastern Europe, as did my wife’s Jewish father. It was difficult to know where they lived exactly and for how long; Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Hungary, Belarus …...

By REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN

I have been writing monthly columns for the Gazette since 2009. Often, in November, I would write how painful I find it that the story of Thanksgiving has been misinterpreted, white-washed, and taught incorrectly in schools nationwide.I also have...

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

While watching our favorite show, “The Bear,” I noticed that many commercials are for drugs. And what are the No. 1 and No. 2 ads? They’re by companies calling themselves “ForHims” and “ForHers.” They advertise websites that reach “real doctors,” for...

By RUSS VERNON-JONES

When I was in Manhattan for New York Climate Week in late September, I met climate author and activist Margaret Klein Salamon for the first time. Margaret played a key role some years ago in getting activists, and then much of the press and many...

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

This summer, our family’s gasoline-powered lawn mower, which had come with the house when we bought it 12 years ago, finally bit the dust. After taking it into Boyden & Perron as well as our neighborhood small-engine repair guy, it became clear it was...

By MAYOR GINA-LOUISE SCIARRA

‘Picture Main Street” is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redesign downtown Northampton with $19 million in state and federal funds. We will address the critical needs of safety, accessibility, vibrancy, and climate resiliency. We will help our...

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

It may seem odd for a transgender woman to be writing a piece about her love of several faith communities. For a long time, members of the LGBTQ+ community were shunned by many denominations and many churches. However, I have been lucky enough to...

By BILL DANIELSON

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really enough to describe as a storm. It was thrilling to see,...

By MICHAEL SEWARD

Soon after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted, this newspaper published an article where U.S. Reps. Richard Neal and James McGovern attempted to justify their decision to join all House Democrats in that effort. In doing so, they once...

By LORRAINE MANGIONE

Given all the trauma and tragedy in the world these days, I have to ask myself why I am bothering to write something in the Gazette about the downtown redo, but I realize it is because many of the same government questions are involved in different...

By JOHN SHEIRER

Considering the terrible situations in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere, the effects of climate change across the planet, the Republican debacle in the House of Representatives, and the continued Republican subservience to their...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Imagine what Lt. A.J. Roemmick was thinking as he left the trenches in France to attack German troops on Nov. 11, 1918. World War I was still raging.As Roemmick entered the “no-man’s land” that separated the American forces from enemy German forces,...

By SARENA NEYMAN

As a child of two Holocaust survivors and a product of Jewish day schools and Zionist summer camps, I was brought up to love Israel unconditionally.My great-grandmother moved to Palestine from Poland in the 1930s because she recognized the dangerous...

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...

By ROSALIE P. PORTER

My highest compliments to the Daily Hampshire Gazette staff on the fine news coverage and columns published recently. First, the excellent column by Susan Wozniak, “Hannah Arendt, Golda Meir: Truths to be listened to” [Oct. 27]. Second, the coverage...

By the REV. PETER KAKOS

Forty years ago, an Israeli journalist, David Grossman, spent months interviewing Palestinians of the West Bank in order to understand their point of view of existence under Israeli rule. Publishing the results of his findings in a book, “The Yellow...

By KAREN GARDNER

I have been overwhelmed with heartache and fear this last month, since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on unarmed Israelis that took some 1,400 lives and more than 200 hostages. The Israeli government’s response, led by right wing Benjamin Netanyahu has...