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Jackie Ballance: Northampton’s own ‘Big Dig’
10-30-2024 4:32 PM

The Gazette featured tongue-in-cheek humor on top of the Oct. 28 front page. The article “$11M in state grants to flow to region” reported that “Northampton’s money [$25,000] will develop a construction mitigation plan to help downtown businesses...


Julie Zuckman: Petition creating hostile co-op atmosphere
10-29-2024 1:41 PM

If the objective of the deshelving petition at River Valley Co-op was to make member No. 80 cringe with fear and discomfort every time she walks into the food co-op, then the objective was achieved.If the objective was to make me look at each cashier...


Roger Berman: Co-op boycott could have opposite effect
10-29-2024 1:41 PM

Years ago I was a member of the Northampton Food Co-op, on Market Street in Northampton. I was also briefly a representative from the co-op to the Western Mass co-ops, a group of co-ops that joined together to combine buying power and exchange issues...


Lois Dubin: Let's remain ‘wild about local’ at River Valley Co-op
10-23-2024 6:10 PM

Member-owners of the River Valley Co-op should vote “no” on the petition by some members to de-shelve and exclude Israeli products. Our local grocery store is not the place to solve fraught international problems. The proposed boycott is a distraction...


Guest columnist Mariel E. Addis: No fan of e-bikes
10-20-2024 6:42 PM

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

 From the time I was little, I have loved bikes. This, even considering what a horrendous sense of balance I had as a kid, and in some ways still do. Going from training wheels to just two wheels did not come easy for me, but once I got it down, I was...


Henry Morgan: Why democracy should be on your shopping list
10-14-2024 5:32 PM

As a lifelong River Valley Co-op member, I’ve learned that democracy is as essential to our community’s well-being as the food we buy. But my recent board candidacy experience revealed we might need to restock our commitment to this ideal.Advocating...


Iggy Generalov: Voting “no” on Question 2
10-13-2024 3:14 PM

This will be my first election as a new American citizen, and I plan to vote “no” on Question 2, which would eliminate the MCAS as a high school graduation requirement.We are tiptoeing around a dangerous, sacred topic here in Northampton, and I must...


What can you expect from a Cuddle Party? Conversations about consent happen before anything else
10-11-2024 10:07 AM

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

As the sun sets over the Hidden Temple in Florence, 14 adults in their comfiest pajamas sprawl on a generous bed of quilts. Outside on this crisp October Saturday, the foliage is just starting to turn, its pops of color complementing the painted...


Colleen C. Currie: Northampton needs joint shelter and housing
10-07-2024 5:34 PM

The Gazette’s Oct. 2 issue edition had a front-page article about Amherst’s consideration of a joint shelter with 40 beds, including associated services, and a housing complex with 30 single-room occupancy apartments on the site of a former VFW...


Lawrence Pareles: Why I support Kamala Harris for president
10-03-2024 4:18 PM

With the national elections coming in November, I’m writing to express my strong support for Kamala Harris to be our next president of the United States. There are many reasons to support her, but honestly I believe she is the leader that our nation...


David Arbeitman: Mass deportations means police state
10-01-2024 4:33 PM

Donald Trump promises to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, mostly Latinos who arrived from Mexico and Central America, if he were to return to the White House.No doubt, this will involve police and military stopping Latinos on the street or...


Nina Kleinberg: Stunned by headline
09-30-2024 5:29 PM

I was stunned by the headline in the Gazette’s Sept. 28 edition referring to the death of Dame Maggie Smith: “Harry Potter actress dies at 89.” Is this how you think your readers would remember one of the most gifted and celebrated actors of our...


Guest columnist Tzivia Gover: Our neighborhood menagerie
09-26-2024 4:35 PM

By TZIVIA GOVER

Editor’s note: The Gazette is publishing short essays over the next several weeks to mark National Good Neighbor Day on Sept. 28. Have a story about good neighbors in your lives? Send your submission of 500 words or less to...


Peter Jones: Gun culture has changed
09-25-2024 4:10 PM

When I was in high school, there were no school shootings. There no mass shootings at all in the United States. If any had happened, it would have been big news, on TV and in all the papers.Once we turned 14, we schoolboys took the NRA hunter safety...


Guest columnist Mariel E. Addis: Campaign lies have a concrete impact
09-21-2024 11:29 PM

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

 If you’ve been closely following the current news about the presidential race, you have probably heard candidate Donald Trump say that public schools are conducting transgender transition-related surgeries on students. If you’ve got more than a dozen...


Esther Ralston: Better to deliver your own vote
09-21-2024 11:28 PM

There has been a lot of discussion about the post office not being able to deliver all the ballots sent through the mail. This year my husband and I decided to vote by mail. But sadly, for the last local primary election, our ballots never made it to...


Cynthia Schaedig: Notes on the dog park
09-16-2024 7:24 PM

The Gazette recently had a long article about the “unofficial” off-leash dog park on Burts Pit Road in Northampton next to the Community Garden [“Leash laws and public safety,” Aug. 9]. While the troubling incidents with off-leash dogs are a...


A recipe for social justice: ‘The Revolution Will Be Well Fed’ is a cookbook for community organizing
09-12-2024 3:41 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

A local author’s new cookbook aims to inspire activism through food designed for community organizing and social justice.“The Revolution Will Be Well Fed,” written by Corrie Locke-Hardy, features 50 recipes that are made for community activism —...


Arts Briefs: A little musical something for everyone in September, from country to Irish to indie punk
09-06-2024 11:25 AM

How time flies“I got sober in 1990 at age twenty-seven. A few years later, I started writing songs.” That’s how singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier begins the liner notes of her soon-to-be reissued, highly acclaimed album, “Drag Queens in Limousines,”...


Tom Bassett: Valley Green Energy — Save money and reduce greenhouse gases
09-03-2024 4:13 PM

What a wonderfully written column, “Cheaper, Greener power on the way” [Gazette, Aug 31]. Readers got some positive climate news that applies a locally initiated solution.I really liked the use of titled sections to focus attention on specific...

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