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When Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get,” he could have been referring to any Supreme Court decision handed down since the inaugural court was seated on March 04, 1789. For 234 years,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Ever sat in a vehicle during a trip from New Jersey to western Massachusetts? How about while in labor? Well, Christy O’Donnell has, and the result was the first baby born at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in 2024.“It was a surprise,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — For almost 25 years, a property at 163 Montague Road has served as a sanctuary for dogs, cats and other small animals, ensuring that otherwise unwanted pets would get love and attention and eventually be adopted.Now, more than a year after...

Congratulations to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The UMass football/athletic program has earned national recognition.Tom Fornelli, a writer for cbssports.com, on Nov. 29, 2022, ranked the bottom 25 NCAA football programs. Calling UMass...

Elucidate: a euphonious word meaning to make lucid or clear. So it is elucidating to learn that the Florida State Board of Education, for clarity’s sake, has recently determined conventional impressions of slavery are a crock (pun intended) and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — Tomasz Gorny, 43, pleaded not guilty in Eastern Hampshire District Court on Friday to charges of larceny over $1,200 after allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from the church where he was a priest. According to the Northwestern...

By MAX BOWEN

With the Quabbin Reservoir in the background, friends and supporters celebrated a day two years in the making.The Quabbin Reservoir Visitor Center in Belchertown has been renamed the Les and Terry Campbell Quabbin Visitor Center, honoring the two...

April was National Volunteer Month, a time to recognize the approximately 25% of Americans who perform some type of formal volunteer work in our country. In the U.S., many volunteers support the causes of hunger and homelessness, however volunteer...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — Four towns were disincorporated and dismantled, and another eight had land stripped from them, to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the first half of the 20th century.People were forced to find new homes and the valley was flooded with water,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A district court judge ruled Tuesday that the state had met its burden in arguing that no amount of bail would ensure public safety in the case of three men who were arrested after allegedly stabbing a man they know on North Main Street...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Three men were arrested on Monday morning after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase into Belchertown after stabbing a man they know on North Main Street.Orange Police Chief James Sullivan said his department was dispatched to North...

The Legislature should take action to prevent exposure to the inert perfluoroalkylated substances, (“Bill aims to slow spread of PFAS,” Gazette, Mar. 7), but it should also tackle the flip side of the fluoride coin — the reactive sodium fluoride and...

On Saturday, Feb. 11, volunteers of all ages met at the Palmer Public Library Community Room to assemble over 550 “period kits” which will be distributed to organizations serving women and girls in poverty, dealing with homelessness, or fleeing...

The heroic struggle to speak that Joanna Buoniconti described in her column “The voice that I earned” (Recorder, Feb. 7) reminded me of Dr. Francis Duda, a pediatric pulmonologist at Baystate Medical Center. In my decades of experience as a...

Thank you John Paradis! Great piece of journalism (“American’s love for football defines us,” Recorder, Feb. 9). Fun to read, meaningful to consider and important to impact.Our nation is seduced into the vicarious thrill of football violence. We’re...

By David Gottsegen

With the approaching anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked onslaught on Ukraine, I think back to the Dec 5 column in the Gazette by the Rev. Peter Kakos on “defusing Ukraine.” He wrote of his hopes for an “irenic” peace, a hope that “both warring...