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Relay For Life Greater Gardner is celebrating 30 years of walking to find a cure for cancer. We are so very proud of what the Greater Gardner area has accomplished during this time, including two years of a pandemic where everything was virtual, and...

Often I am asked about Greenfield’s property tax rate and why it is one of the highest in Massachusetts. Here is a quick explanation. Tax rate and tax bill are not the same thing. As we have seen this year, the rate dropped. One big reason for this...

Please! Climate activists stop telling me how to live my life. We are all well aware liberals, especially activists would rather pass a law to control your life. They loath debate or compromise.The latest “the sky is falling” mantra? Activists want to...

I watched the videos of the “arrest” of Tyre Nichols released by the Memphis Police Department. Holy Crap. The beating I saw should never have happened. Mr. Nichols died. Police officers are charged with murder. No one stepped in to stop it. I saw at...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy: If you want to sit down with President Joe Biden to talk about lifting the debt ceiling, you pledge that Social Security and Medicare would not be cut. Really?Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with the...

Makes sense … sadly. In our current U.S. of A., political, social, and supposedly philosophical society, this astute reply to a journalist’s question was given by Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. Journalist: What do you think of western civilization?...

Why not follow or try the local police staffing model that is being successfully used by by both Deerfield and Montague to keep each of their town's 24-hour police coverage ? A small base staff for the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift and then backups are...

I am writing in response to several letters arguing either management or no-management as the best path to protect Massachusetts’ forests. It seems more reasonable to think that both approaches need to be taken into account. In fact, this was the...

I have been a supporter and a long-time friend of Mayor RoxannWedergartner. I have some advice for her. It is time to give Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. walking papers.  The man has cost the town a lot of money.  He was found guilty of racial bias by...

It is important when reporting on Gov. Maura Healey’s planned logging moratorium, to include the importance of keeping our forests wild for the benefit of the people, who should be the ones to benefit from our public lands. While it is true that some...

The recent firing of a dance instructor at the Greenfield Senior Center brings to mind the similar actions of the same director in forcing the shut down of free tax preparation a few years back.At that time, theses services were provided at the old...

I am writing as chairman of the Bernardston Veterans Memorial Committee. We are in the process of updating the Veterans Memorial in Cushman Park and will be adding names to honor those that have served since we dedicated the current memorial, in 2002....

There’s been a lot in the press about how bad gas stoves are for your health. They can cause asthma in children and have other gases which are not terribly good for adults (www.ecowatch.com/gas-stoves-asthma-children.html). Using the range exhaust...

Last week, Greenfield Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. made an aggrieved presentation to City Council claiming that he has to cut the night shift because the Council defunded the police, and he said that this would make our town unsafe. But the council’s...

I take exception to the use of the word "evil" when describing Democrats in the recent letter “New bill on abortion,” (Recorder, Jan. 21). This country is deeply divided along political lines, and the situation is not helped when people write letters...

After reading the article by reporter Greg Vine on the front-page of Tuesday’s Recorder about the impending debt ceiling battle, and U.S. Rep McGovern’s take on it, I felt that his one sided perspective deserves a response (“McGovern: Debt ceiling...

We would like to commend Dr. DavideGottsegen for his insightful column, “As war rolls on, support for Ukraine must continue,” in the Jan. 20 Recorder. He eloquently and correctly condenses the issues, outlines the over 1,000 year history of Ukraine...

Having refused to accept responsibility for racism in their promotion decisions, Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. and Mayor RoxannWedegartner are now fighting their war with the City Council at the expense of the safety of the people of Greenfield,...

By JAMIE YOST and CHRISTOPHER SIKES

After more than two months reviewing Moody Center’s plans for the three-day SoulFest Christian Music Festival, the Northfield Select Board issued a strongly-worded letter to the President of the Moody Center. The five members of the Select Board...

Few knew or loved Catamount more than Tom (“Monsai”) Maloney.  Aside from growing up on the southern-most extremity of the mountain, it was Tom’s playground from the time he could ambulate.  Starting with bicycles and advancing to an old VW Beetle, to...