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By JACOB NELSON

‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we employed more people making clothes and textiles right here in western Massachusetts?” asks Lisa Fortin, founder of Bloom Woolen Yarns in Ashfield. “Working on the land with animals, designing things in fiber mills –...

By NINA SCOTT

This past semester, one of my most interesting courses in Learning in Retirement, organized by Nancy Denig, was called “You Are There,” in which the seminar participants talked about famous people they had met or with whom they had interacted.Dottie...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The leading candidate for the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination said Saturday that he was giving “very serious consideration” to pushing Mayor Sean M. Dunphy for lieutenant governor. Attorney General Robert Quinn said anyone...

By GEORGE MILLER

EASTHAMPTON – A pair of regular-season meetings produced a 29-2 combined score in Easthampton's favor, but in Tuesday's third time around at Nonotuck Park's Wilby Field, the Eagles suddenly found themselves in the fight of their Western Mass. softball...

By BILL DANIELSON

It was the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend and I was visiting my parents to celebrate the big day. I had arrived on Friday afternoon, gone out for a wonderful dinner and returned to the old homestead where, for some reason, we all decided to stay up...

By BOB FLAHERTY

EASTHAMPTON — Counting birds is no spring picnic. The feathery songsters don’t stay put for long — in the time it takes to write down “great crested flycatcher” you’ll likely miss two grackles and an oriole. It takes a team.Outside Mass Audubon’s...

By MICHAEL CAROLAN

Dwight resident Walter Jenks, 82, remembers the railroad station that once stood down the street from his home, halfway between Amherst and Belchertown Commons.“The locomotives would come and pick up the milk cans on the platform,” Jenks said about...

By NICOLE GODARD

It’s early May, deep in the heart of testing season. 22 middle school students sit at desks arranged in a half circle closed just tightly enough so they see each other and the question displayed on the board at the front of the room: “Are cell phones...

By MOLLY PARR

For my birthday this year, I received an unexpected call from a local florist, double checking that I’d be home for delivery. A few hours later, to my total surprise and utter delight, an enormous fruit basket arrived.It was a gift from my supervisor...

By JACOB NELSON

‘It grew out of walking in the woods and being hungry for knowledge – and also good things to eat.”That’s how Paul Lagreze describes the birth of his business, New England Wild Edibles. Purveyors of wild plants and fungi from the fields and forests of...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A Cessna 150 airplane crashed yesterday morning while practicing take-offs and landings at LaFleur airport, causing substantial damage to the plane but no injury to the pilot. Laurent LaFleur of the airport said this morning that the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Two separate introductions to the technique of Transcendental Meditation will be offered in Northampton this week. TM is a technique of achieving a deep state of rest in a short period of time. ■Mrs. Russell Carpenter of Northampton has...

By BILL DANIELSON

To celebrate our anniversary, my beautiful wife Susan and I decided to spend the first weekend of May in Newport, Rhode Island. This is where we were staying when I proposed to her and every now and then we like to head back to the scene of the crime...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — Local activists for Cuba and Venezuela are calling on U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern to sign a letter to President Joe Biden condemning sanctions that they say have impacted the countries’ economies and contributed to a surge of migrants at the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A proposal by the New England Farm Workers Council to use Smith Vocational and Agricultural School’s shop facilities to train Puerto Rican migrant workers in a marketable skill is under active study by the school’s board of trustees....

By ERIC WELD

It wasn’t how I planned it. Then again, what in life, or adventure, ever goes exactly the way it was originally planned?I never planned to return to finish hiking the Appalachian Trail because my intention was to complete the entirety of it in one go...

By JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA

Long before the rise of internet dating, lonely souls turned to the classified ads to find love.The song “Want Ads” soared to the top of the Billboard charts in 1971. This catchy tune by a girl group called the Honey Cone tells the story of a young...

By Maddie Fabian

SOUTH HADLEY — The Board of Health has adopted a new regulation that will require every landlord to obtain a rental registry permit with the town.The regulation works to protect the health and safety of tenants by ensuring safe and sanitary...

By Sophie Hauck

NORTHAMPTON — Judy “JR” Raphael wore a bag over her head when she marched in the Northampton Pride parade during the 1970s, plainly decorated with two holes where her eyes could scan the cheering crowds without exposing her identity. Working in...

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...