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By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — In a perfect world, Dr. Ira Helfand would not earn recognition for his tireless advocacy for the elimination of nuclear weapons because they’d already be eliminated.But until the day comes, the Northampton resident activist continues to...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The City Council has voted to close the Leeds fire station and some of the people in Leeds are hopping mad. Leeds residents say that some of the fire chief’s statements about the condition of the station are false, and insist that other...

By Sydney Ko

Brittainy Simpson grew up in the hearing world but was considered an oral deaf, a person who is born deaf or becomes deaf before they learn how to speak. Despite getting by with a hearing aid and lip-reading, Simpson only learned how to sign at age...

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

A friend of mine had a terminal illness, and I went to visit him at a medical facility. Perhaps that is a dark sentence to begin a story, not brimming with enticement, but it’s a real one.On the way over to see him I felt like you do when life serves...

By ALLIE MARTINEAU

The days are longer, snow sculptureshave melted, and the seeds sleeping in the dirt are considering their next moves. Spring is here, and the outdoors of western Massachusetts are calling.There are plenty of day trips to community gardens, public...

By AMY NEWSHORE

Setting boundaries is a life skill that involves setting limits and rules for how people treat us, who we want in our lives and how close we wish to be with others.To really open our hearts to others, we need to be able to trust that we will be...

By JACOB NELSON

Spring is springing up at Everyday Farm in Gill. Actually, it’s bouncing all over the place.“We’ve had about a hundred lambs born so far this year,” says farmer Hannah Sol. Once all their mother ewes give birth, the number of bleating babies will more...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — The first in a series of anonymous racist emails was sent to Black students and organizations at UMass Amherst in September 2021.Tess Weisman, a current sophomore recently elected as next year’s president of the Student Government...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Elinor Roberts, a senior at Northampton High School, has been chosen 1973 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow for Massachusetts. “I was totally surprised,” the new state homemaker said of receiving the award, which includes a $1,500...

By Maddie Fabian

NORTHAMPTON — Dane Kuttler, one of about 30 people who volunteer for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program run by Community Action Pioneer Valley, thinks doing taxes is fun. More than that, she loves helping low-income taxpayers in the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■After an unusually mild winter, New England was recovering today from the second major storm of the week – one that caused power blackouts and school closings in the north and flooding in the south.■ It’s been more than a month since...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Spaghetti, macaroni, chicken and seafood topped the Sunday dinner menus for thousands of Americans on the opening day of a weeklong meat boycott protesting high prices. Most meat markets were closed on Sunday, so it was hard to judge...

By LISA GOODRICH

For Big Y, the commitment to serving neighbors food from local farms started at the beginning. In 1936, Paul D’Amour and his brother, Gerry D’Amour, used their family savings to purchase the Y Cash Market. The business grew, and in the 1950s the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Auction! Will be sold at auction at the house of Oliver Warner, innholder in Northampton, on Monday, the thirty-first inst., at two o’clock P.M., the homestead whereon Capt. William W. Partridge now lives. A credit of eight months will...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago A suit has been filed in U.S. District Court in Boston by a local attorney that would allow, if successful, some residents of the Belchertown State School...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTH HADLEY — When Jim Bouchard returned to the United States after serving as a medic in the Vietnam War, he was called a “baby killer” by a stranger in a bar.On Wednesday, he was one of many veterans recognized in a Vietnam Veterans Day...

By MADDIE FABIAN

As the new artificial intelligence model ChatGPT becomes increasingly ubiquitous, educators, students and parents are navigating a new world in which AI can be used to write essays, create lesson plans, brainstorm ideas, generate poetry and even come...

By NINA M. SCOTT

Five College Learning in Retirement members are busy people, but besides their academic commitment to this program, many are also involved in volunteering in a wide variety of ways. I sent out a questionnaire to our membership this month and was blown...

By JACOB NELSON

Toni Hall is a farmer hoping to turn some heads. A diminutive plant known as spilanthes, with edible flowers called buzz buttons, is helping get people’s attention.“When I give out samples at the farmers market, people make these crazy sounds and...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Miss C. M. Snow proposes to open a School for Young Ladies, in a central situation on Pleasant Street, for the instruction of young ladies in the following branches of education: reading, writing, English grammar, geography, rhetoric,...