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I see that Daniel Brown is still contributing columns to the Recorder. He used to be so insightful about the human disaster it was at the border during President Trump’s term in office since he now lives near the border and sees it firsthand. It would...

If you are looking for a fun and entertaining place to spend your time, come to the Bernardston Senior Center. We have an amazing director, Jennifer Reynolds, who is always coming up with new ideas and is friendly and welcomes new members. We have...

Thank you to the Recorder for the article on Monday about local police staffing for the overnight 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift and getting this information out to the community. Currently Deerfield, Montague, Orange and Greenfield provide their own police...

I am curious as to why electric grid infrastructure has to be seen as such a stumbling block on the road to solarization, when independent home and business solar arrays can perform stand-alone generation quite capably.Speaking of the road, why aren’t...

This is in response to the letter ” Grateful for Senior Center and its dedicated staff,” (Recorder, Jan. 20). Aside from thinking it was only submitted because of the recent negative publicity around a certain staff member who fired a dedicated and...

The Moore v. Harper case before the Supreme Court could protect or destroy checks and balances. I want my daughter and her generation to come into their adulthood in a country where their votes cannot be extinguished by extremist state legislatures...

Police Chief Robert Haigh’s decision to make some sort of reduction in Greenfield police staffing was inevitable. His decision is a direct result from the City Council’s vote last May 2022 to cut the police budget by $425,000. The vote was uniformed,...

David Gottsegen’s column “As war rolls on, support for Ukraine must continue,” in the Recorder Jan. 20 edition inspires this letter.He calls the horrible Russian attack on Ukraine “unprovoked,” the adjective regularly repeated in the mainstream press....

In the Recorder’s Jan. 20 article on the Land Court’s ruling nullifying the special permit issued to the New Salem Museum (“Ruling upends permit for museum”), the museum’s owners had ample space to articulate their vision for the museum and the...

I just read that there may no longer be a night shift on the Greenfield Police Department because of budgetary constraints. $400,00 removed by the City Council so they could make a “statement” to the mayor and chief of police. At who’s cost? The...

I applaud Daniel Brown for his forthright column “When global warming stares you in the face,” (Recorder, Jan. 19). I agree that “saving the Earth” is narcissistic but also, I think, hubristic. We do not begin to honor our interdependent relationship...

When I became executive director of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) in 2000, I didn’t know a whole lot about Franklin County. I lived in Sunderland then and owned Annie’s Garden Store on Rt. 116 in Amherst. But I appreciated right...

Kate Lindroos’ column “In the fight against logging, conspiracy takes the (profitable) reins,” (Gazette, Jan. 18) points out how the International Panel on Climate Change acknowledges that forest management can help mitigate climate-related risks to...

Here’s how evil Democrats are. After the House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Jan. 11, “Born-Alive Act: Pelosi, Schumer melt down after new bill requires care for babies born during failed abortion,” (foxnews.com, Jan. 12)....

Thanks to Al Norman for his revealing column “The Assessors Puzzle Box,” (Recorder, Jan. 18). We were shocked to discover we are paying more in real estate taxes for our three-bedroom ranch home than Patriot Care, the marijuana dispensary on Legion...

I do not know why the City Council was so shocked at Police Chief Robert Haigh’s announcement at their Jan. 18 meeting. “Some of my (elderly) neighbors ask who is going to respond if they need the police. My answer was to call 911 and maybe a city...

We are an enthusiastic group of local senior citizens who wish to share our positive experience at the Greenfield Senior Center.First, a brief history of how our new Senior Center evolved.About 20 years ago, there was an idea that Greenfield badly...

I read with interest the Jan. 17 Recorder article, “Schools see steep drop in enrollment,” and was struck by the mayor’s comment, “We should all be concerned about that.”Although I agree with her sentiment, I am not in agreement with her vision for...

It is a mistake to connect the decline in population to the decline in enrollment at the Greenfield Public Schools as School Committee Chairwoman Amy Proietti did in the front page article in Tuesday’s Recorder. As a 13-year veteran teacher of GPS, I...

What is really going on in Leyden. My only source of information is the Greenfield Recorder. It has been reported that a Selectman, police chief, police captain, town clerk and now seven members of the Council on Aging committee all have resigned. Any...