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By STEVE PFARRER

In the early 1990s, I answered an ad for a reporting job at the Gazette. I had editorial experience — I’d worked as a copywriter, a copy editor, and a proofreader — and I liked writing, but I’d never worked for a newspaper, unless you counted a few...

By BILL DANIELSON

Although summer has only really just begun it feels like “deep summer” has already arrived. We already have the heat and the humidity and the almost daily threats of thunderstorms, but if you go out into nature and use your eyes and ears, then it...

Gail Hornstein and Carole DeSanti picked a bumper crop of peas from their garden in Leverett. They wrote in with the saying, “plant your peas in April, wet or dry, and pick them by the 4th of July!”How to enter: Snap a pic of something...

By AMY NEWSHORE

As with other mental health challenges that have received a lot of attention in the media (such as autism, bipolar disorder and ADHD), narcissism has become a familiar household word in recent years. Studies indicate that the psychiatric condition...

By MOLLY PARR

I went back and forth about sharing this bread pudding recipe so close to spring. In fact, my beloved CSA wrote to remind me about remaining available shares and that spring was just days away. However, I didn’t see the email right away because the...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

One of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic was the series of annual spring gardening symposiums hosted by the Western Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association (WMMGA). These popular events helped gardeners of all abilities expand their...

Dear Waldo,My Auntie Samantha has always hated her eyebrows because she thinks they make her look grouchy. So she plucked them all out and then she drew on fake ones, but the fake ones are I’d say at least three-quarters of an inch higher on her...

By Bob Flaherty

NORTHAMPTON — The jangling distant chords called to Jamie Kent at a young age. The Nashville recording artist’s childhood Florence home was a stone’s throw from the entrance to Look Memorial Park and the iconic Pines Theater nestled within. When...

By KATE KEELAN, ARIA MARTINELLI and LAURA FAY

A ring of teenage boys stashes cigarettes under stacks of napkins. A fleet of college girls whizzes past on bicycles, black robes billowing out behind them. Another pack of boys gathers on a bridge, ready to pelt them with water balloons.With the...

By REBECA PEREIRA

NORTHAMPTON — Western Massachusetts’s first trans, nonbinary and gender-expansive youth theater collective, Co-ACT, debuts on stage Wednesday with its initial musical production, breathing life into a scripted retelling of the ensemble’s real...

By REBECA PEREIRA

Four generations of Deerfield fruit farmers have stewarded the land at Clarkdale Fruit Farms for more than a century, harvesting an heirloom apple variety that measures just around 1 inch in diameter, a bite-sized Lady apple most popular among the...

E — The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: Is encouraging dairy farmers and cattle ranchers to capture methane gas from their livestock’s manure good or bad for the planet? — Phil Onorato, Pittsburgh, PA Methane capture, the process of using the decomposition of livestock...