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As we look ahead to the November elections, I want to express my appreciation for President Joe Biden's efforts to heal and rebuild America. In these times of extraordinary challenges, his calm and wise leadership is inspiring. He stands as a beacon...

By VALLE DWIGHT

 I first wrote about our son Aidan on these pages when he was 18 months old, some 26 years ago. He was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and I wrote then about the fears and joys and unknowns we were facing. I remember being so anxious about what he would...

Truth biographer comes to townFLORENCE — Historian Nell Irvin Painter, the author of an acclaimed biography of Sojourner Truth, will visit the town where the famed abolitionist once lived to talk about her newest book and about some of the ideas that...

I am a 10-year-old kid in fourth grade, who goes to Jackson Street School, and I am against the budget cuts. Kids have so much drama and things to deal and worry about, in life and adding this extra thing to put on their shoulders is not right. Us...

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

 I wrote a piece about my bestie Samuel a while ago. Samuel is my now 6-year-old black cat; I adopted him back in 2018 from the T.J. O’Connor Shelter in Springfield at 9 weeks of age. He came to live with me one week to the day before I underwent...

By STEVE PFARRER

Crossing the snowy wastes of Alaska in deep winter, when the temperature is plunging past 40 below zero, might not be everybody’s cup of tea.But for Marla BB, it was a little bit of paradise — a three-week sojourn with her own Alaskan sled dogs,...

Recently, I rode my bike on our decaying bike path from Florence onto Hadley’s and Amherst’s well-maintained paths. The surface of our path is mostly cracks and bumps, while our neighbors’ are smooth. I’ve learned that a new vendor for Valley Bike has...

Shame on those UMass faculty and librarians who voted ‘no confidence’ in Chancellor Javier Reyes.Elaine KerstenFlorence

By RICHARD FEIN

This column is about famine and its consequences for human beings. The last paragraph will indicate what you and I can do to alleviate the suffering.Humanitarian organizations use a multi-level scale for determining degrees of food insecurity. For the...

By STEPHEN HARDING

 I have wisteria plants on my property. My mother planted it (or rather, had me plant it), probably close to 20 years ago. Wisteria is supposed to be a very beautiful plant, although a bit on the on the invasive side. For almost all of those 20 years,...

Razvan Sibii’s thoughtful column questioning referring to this country as “America” raised interesting points for me when I read it this morning [“Should ‘America’ be a synonym for USA?” Gazette, May 21]. While viewing the recent biographical film on...

I was dismayed to read about a no confidence vote that the leadership of the South Hadley Education Association brought to the School Committee meeting against the principal of Mosier Elementary School principal [“Union takes no-faith vote in...

Austerity. This is what you as a city are proposing. Do more with less. You are proposing this for a cohort of students who did not receive a year of education. Let's be real: Zoom school was a failure for most.What is weath? Money sitting in an...

Many thanks to Lander-Grinspoon Academy for its brutal candor. In a recent recruiting missive, the private day school did a very 2024 thing and said the quiet part out loud: “As the Northampton public school system is introducing inevitable budget...

I would like to publicly express my gratitude to Professor Henia Lewin, as we marked Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Last April 11th, during Genocide Awareness Month, Northampton High School junior Maayan Seltzer organized a schoolwide event...

I have a deep appreciation and respect for people engaging in the democratic process, having had the honor of serving constituents in western Massachusetts as a legislative staffer. In my role of connecting people with their government, I witnessed...

By JAMES PENTLAND

Residents of the Rocky Hill Cohousing community are no strangers to working on art projects together.But, for the Global Art Project for Peace, they’re taking another step — exchanging artwork with a group in another country.“We’ve done other art...

I am writing in response to MarielAddis’ column “Under seige from all sides,” [Gazette, April 18] where the writer bemoans Pope Francis’ recent remarks questioning gender theory and “sex changes” as “grave threats” to humanity today. Like all...

Thank you for finding and returning my keys. Thank you to Bob, the caretaker of Childs Park in Northampton, who went out and looked for them.Thank you to the young man who found them, saw my Big Y card, and took my keys to the Big Y service counter....

On reading the article “Tabloid publisher says that he was Trump’s ‘eyes and ears’” [Gazette, April 24], I was encouraged that Donald Trump will be getting the punishment that he deserves. Trump has shown great cleverness in protecting himself from...