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Center for Educational Collaborative in Northampton ends licensure preparation program for teachers, forcing 10 layoffs
01-23-2025 4:10 PM

ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Collaborative for Educational Services, a Northampton non-profit that provides professional educational services, consulting and programs for students with special needs, is cutting 10 positions and reducing the hours of 10 others, citing a change in the overall educational landscape.


Northampton City Briefing: Grow Food appoints new co-director
01-23-2025 3:43 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Grow Food Northampton has announced that Michael Skillicorn has been made co-executive director, joining existing Executive Director Alisa Klein in leading the community garden and sustainable food nonprofit.


Janet Q. Nelson: Celebrating our caring community
01-23-2025 8:05 AM

On Jan. 20, 300 people braved a very cold morning to listen to 25 organizations asking for volunteers for their social and political efforts. Bombyx Center For the Arts and Equity hosted the event, organized by the Rev. Marisa Egerstrom, the dynamic pastor of Florence Congregational Church.


Columnist Carrie N. Baker: How to model the world we desire
01-23-2025 8:04 AM

By CARRIE N. BAKER

Intense political polarization in contemporary American society shapes not only national politics, but local politics as well. It’s happening across partisan boundaries, but also within the left as well as the right. Some people appear to have lost the capacity to disagree without demonizing one another, calling each other names, assuming bad intentions and engaging in character assassination. Examples abound, such as recent personal attacks on social media against Northampton’s mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra; attacks on Amherst school board members that resulted in multiple resignations in 2023; student protesters’ treatment of Smith College’s new president last year; and call outs that led to the cancelation of the 2021 Western Massachusetts Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial.


Coca-Cola in Northampton will stay open through 2025
01-22-2025 5:17 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — More than a year and a half after it initially planned to close, the Coca-Cola bottling plant on Industrial Drive will remain open through 2025, though its future in the city remains uncertain.


‘The road to hell starts with good intentions’: New opera tells the story of Northampton’s notorious revivalist preacher, Jonathan Edwards
01-22-2025 3:09 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher whose legacy has endured through centuries. He was the first minister in Northampton to baptize African Americans, yet he did not free those he enslaved. He was a loving husband, yet he supported complementarianism, a theological belief that gender roles are ordained by God. And his work inspired several suicides.


Arts Briefs: ‘Love Letters’ in Hatfield, paintings done by feet in Northampton, and more
01-22-2025 2:25 PM

The local theater company Valley Players will present a production of the play “Love Letters” on Feb. 7, 8, 14 and 15, each at 7:30 p.m., at Black Birch Vineyard in Hatfield.


Leonard Cohen: Political theater
01-22-2025 7:51 AM

One cannot escape the irony of some of the political theater we have been subjected to lately. First Donald Trump, who proposes, on day one in office, to bring manufacturing back to America, and then peddles a Bible for $59.99 printed (where else but) in China. One would think that we have plenty of printing presses in the U.S. but I guess it would be much too expensive to have an American company take on the job.


Charter objection forces Northampton to call special meeting Wednesday
01-21-2025 5:50 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council will hold a special virtual meeting Wednesday to try and pass six financial orders relating to the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, after Ward 3 Councilor Quaverly Rothenberg raised a charter objection at the previous council meeting last Thursday that delayed a vote.


Northampton bans use of fossil fuels in new buildings, renovations; new rules start Jan. 27
01-21-2025 1:50 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A new building code kicks in citywide next Monday that effectively bans the use of fossil fuels in any new buildings or renovations of existing structures in Northampton.


Guest columnist Lisa Modenos: Answer the call of school climate crisis
01-19-2025 7:33 PM

By LISA MODENOS


Columnist Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: Decency: A resolution of resistance
01-17-2025 2:01 PM

By THE REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN

Maybe you made some New Year’s resolutions a few weeks ago. Maybe you have adhered to them faithfully. Or maybe they are getting a bit frayed at the edges, modified, or abandoned.


King Sang Boos: Yes, Picture Main Street!
01-17-2025 11:26 AM

It’s too early in the new year to read another doomsday plaint from letter writer Rutherford Platt about Picture Main Street [“The last First Night Northampton?” Jan. 6].  There are many of us in Northampton who welcome a downtown that will meet the future, despite the implementation challenges ahead.


Veronica Darmon: Politically correct antisemitism in the Valley
01-17-2025 11:26 AM

Since Oct. 7, 2023, those of us who grieve the horrors and atrocities of that day have been, well, scared to speak up. What are we afraid of?


Valley Bounty: A local spot that’s easy to love: Familiars Coffee & Tea in Northampton sources local for their seasonal flavors
01-17-2025 9:47 AM

By JACOB NELSON

Some restaurants are once-in-a-while places. Maybe they’re a bit fancy. Maybe their menu is a bit one-dimensional. Maybe they’re great for grabbing a sandwich to-go between meetings, or a sit-down Sunday morning brunch while your parents are in town, but not both.


Israel-Hamas ceasefire brings hope, skepticism for locals
01-16-2025 7:45 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The announcement of a proposed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has drawn a wide array of reactions from local organizations, activists and politicians in the Pioneer Valley and the commonwealth, many of whom have been protesting or closely following the events since the war’s beginning in October 2023.


Arts Briefs: Crafts and cinema in Northampton, new exhibition at the Carle museum, and more
01-15-2025 1:52 PM

The Academy of Music will host its first “Stitch ‘n’ Flix” movie screening — that is, a screening in which guests can bring their own craft project, like knitting or crochet, to work on while watching a movie in a theater with dimmed lighting — on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. (The only caveat is that the project must be “self-contained” and unable to produce mess.)


Guest columnist Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra: Northampton’s capital spending makes fiscal sense
01-14-2025 5:31 PM

By MAYOR GINA-LOUISE SCIARRA


Guest columnist Karen Kauschen: The true cost of underfunding our schools
01-14-2025 4:33 PM

By KAREN KAUSCHEN

Funding our schools isn’t just about supporting our children today — it’s about lowering Northampton’s long-term costs associated with crime, social services, and lost tax revenue. The narrative that restoring $2 million to the school budget will take $10 million away from future capital improvements over five years overlooks a crucial truth: every dollar invested in education generates significant returns.


Shelly Berkowitz: Country’s public health will worsen with RFK Jr. at the helm
01-14-2025 4:31 PM

This letter is in response to Olin Rose-Bardawil’s column “The case for debate in our polarized times,” [Gazette, Jan. 10].

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