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By CRAIG DELLA PENNA

A couple of years ago, I wrote an op-ed piece about the prospective completion of the Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT) and its potential impact on downtown Northampton. I was surprised to note that in recent discussions about the remake of our beautiful...

By AMANDA ALIX

Dan Winslow’s melodramatic guest column for the Amherst Bulletin and Daily Hampshire Gazette casts Shutesbury as the villain and W.D. Cowls Inc., and Amp (now PureSky) Energy as the victims vis-a-vis the lawsuit filed by Cowls and Amp claiming the...

By GREG KERSTETTER

Students from around the world are returning to Northampton.They are coming from countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Peru and Japan. They are coming in numbers higher than anticipated by the mighty little school that attracts them to our...

By KATE QUEENEY

In April, the Northampton City Council accepted an offer from Smith College to fund a corridor safety study on West Street and Route 9. When it was introduced on March 30, Councilor Alex Jarrett reasonably asked if Smith can essentially jump the line...

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

As a 50-year subscriber and occasional contributor, I am one of the Gazette’s most loyal fans. However, I was underwhelmed by the July 22 front-page story “Watch Out for Cars” that seems to bend over backwards to try to portray our treasured...

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

It is hard to believe, but I think my initiation into “femaledom” is finally complete. On what must have been its fourth day in theaters, I went to see the new Barbie movie.A long-time female friend of mine organized the outing, and I went to the film...

By KAREN BIERWERT

I am a resident of Northampton, born here and have lived here for close to 70 years. I care about our community. My mother’s family had a Main Street business four generations, going back to my great-grandfather. However, I am very concerned about the...

By TOM WEINER

Gettysburg was chosen for this year’s Braver Angels Convention (July 5-8) and it was no accident that we were meeting at Gettysburg College, which is next to the battlefield where more than 7,000 Americans died during one of the most horrifying...

By DR. KATHERINE J. ATKINSON

In 2008, I was interviewed by the New York Times about the dearth of primary care physicians in western Massachusetts [“In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care,” NYT, April 5, 2008]. The Times interviewer made me prove my numbers to him when...

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In a recent letter to the editor, Claudia Lefko accurately captures the hypocrisy of support for the war in Ukraine by those who have been staunchly antiwar in the past [“Peace is the answer, not war,” Gazette, July 18].There is obviously a strong...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

Friends, soon after our atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 (and Nakasaki, three days later), citizen-activists, who later came to Northampton, began calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.A young Dr. Thomas Crowe was...

By JOHN PARADIS

‘I’m fine,” said the U.S. senior senator from Kentucky.Wait? What?Nope, you’re definitely not fine, I said to myself.Fine, by definition, means “well.” Fine means “competent.” Healthy. Fit.What we observed recently with Addison Mitchell McConnell III,...

By LENORE BRYCK

Why would eco-climate activists throughout Massachusetts challenge the siting of industrial solar installations on forests and green lands? Their focus is precisely climate healing, not impeding solar development. But witnessing severe damage by big...

By AVA SMITH, OLLIE PERRAULT and ALICE JENKINS

The Easthampton City Council passed an ordinance sponsored by Councilors Owen Zaret, Koni Denham, and Salem Derby, protecting reproductive and gender affirming care on July 5. This ordinance was initially introduced to combat deceptive advertising...

By COURTNEY MEYER, CAROLYN HOLSTEIN, EMMA DRAGON and DAN REGISH

The future of Hadley’s iconic Russell School building is at stake. Will the town invest in this historic building? Residents resoundingly push for yes.This one-of-a-kind 1894 Italianate structure functioned as Hopkins Academy from 1894-1909 and then...

By STEPHEN HERRELL

I would like to weigh in regarding the proposed redesign of Main Street in Northampton. Don’t misunderstand me. I am totally in favor of more and more people walking or riding their bicycles downtown, and driving their cars there less, to burn less...

By ROBERT MEEROPOL

Western Massachusetts’ senior U.S. District Court Judge Michael Ponsor had an important opinion piece published in The New York Times on Sunday, July 16. The essence of his essay is that the Supreme Court justices’ ethical conduct doesn’t pass the...

By LUNA GREENWOOD

As someone who has lived all over the world, I can tell you with some authority that Hadley is truly a gem of a community. The last dozen years as the children’s librarian in Hadley have been the best years of my life. It has been a privilege and a...

By KAREN LIST

Barbie, now in a theater near you, has always been big in our family.My sister in Iowa has several glass cases in her living room filled with the fanciest collector Barbies. All of my professional life, I’ve had a Glinda Barbie holding a magic wand on...

The coverage of Andrew Leland’s memoir gave me some hope [“A radically distinct way of being in the world,” Gazette, July 21]. I am lost helping someone close to me get help and advice on adapting to living with low vision.She lost most of her vision...