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By CARRIE N. BAKER and MAX FALLON-GOODWIN

‘They stripped me down, they cut my hair off, they poured the liquid in my hair and told me to go to the showers,” testified 72-year-old Dora Brought Plenty about when she first entered the Indian boarding school where she spent her childhood...

By DOMENIC POLI

Don’t worry, radio personality Christopher “Monte” Belmonte will still push a shopping cart 43 miles from Springfield to Greenfield to raise money to combat food insecurity. The journey will simply have a different name.This year marks the first March...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With towns across Massachusetts suffering millions of dollars worth of damages due to torrential rainstorms throughout the summer, local legislators Rep. Natalie Blais and Sen. Jo Comerford have introduced legislation that could take some of the...

By BILL NEWMAN

When the sun rose over the Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, Mike Johnson was a backbencher, an unknown-to-most-people congressman from Louisiana. By that afternoon, he was the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Since then, many of us have been...

Brava to Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer, for telling Massachusetts to put its money where its mouth is on climate in a new report [“Climate chief offers call for change,” Recorder, Oct. 30]. Not so much, sadly, to Governor Maura Healey, for sitting on...

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

‘You’ve got a match!” My phone makes that familiar chime; the one that never fails to immediately interrupt my train of thought as I sit at my desk typing away, stating that a new match — for the sake of this column we’ll call him J — has messaged me....

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A few months after opening and with business booming, the existing Happy Feelings dispensary brand is going up in smoke on Nov. 11, with two familiar faces becoming the face of the company’s three stores.Next weekend, Happy Feelings stores...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — After being given multiple oral warnings to leave the Whitmore Administration Building on Wednesday evening, 56 University of Massachusetts students and one UMass employee were arrested on charges of trespassing, according to a university...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BOSTON — Stressing that the need for legal drug consumption sites would save hundreds of lives and that there wasn’t a moment to waste, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan implored lawmakers on Monday to muster up the courage to pass...

By Sophie Hauck

NORTHAMPTON — Discussion over the Russia-Ukraine war turned testy at a forum last week in which foreign policy experts advocating for and against current United States policy in the 19-month conflict sparred over who was right.“You sound like people...

By SHELLY BERKOWITZ

“What should it mean when we say “both sides” are responsible in the war between Israel and Hamas?”It is important to correctly identify and label what is meant when we speak of both sides in the Israeli/Palestinian tragedy. The narrative is simple...

By SUZANNE STILLINGER

I don’t often open the closet where my blue dress shirts, slacks, and blazers are hanging. I seldom have the opportunity to wear them in my line of work.My shirts are a canvas for globs of paint, glue and not infrequently, boogers. My pants are a...

By STEVE PFARRER

In late 1999, Northampton writer Jonathan Harr published a lengthy piece, “The Burial,” in The New Yorker, an account of a noteworthy 1995 trial in Mississippi in which a jury awarded a staggering $500 million to a small-scale funeral home owner for...

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

“There is something particularly lonely about being in your mid-twenties.” I was recently scrolling through TikTok, when I came across a video with that caption; and it stopped me dead in my tracks. Because it addressed something that I’ve been...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A New York City music venue operator with more than two dozen theaters throughout the Northeast intends to buy the Calvin Theatre downtown and have shows up and running early next year.Calvin owner Eric Suher recently told the License...

By DANIELLE SQUILLANTE

News went viral on Sept. 5 that 61 people were being indicted by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr on racketeering charges for their involvement in the Stop Cop City campaign. This move by the state is both an effort to deter activists from...

By RUTH FOLCHMAN

Most of us know something about the longing for a place we can call home, where we can rest and receive what is offered, allowing things to be as they are without fear or judgment.What a blessing it is when we can find that place within ourselves. As...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — At long last, the Iron Horse Music Hall has a new owner, and music could be emanating from the venerable Center Street location as soon as February.The Parlor Room, a nearby music venue run by a nonprofit, announced Wednesday that it has...

By MARK REYNOLDS and LINDA BUTLER

One year after a major climate bill was passed, Massachusetts has begun to reap the benefits of an influx of clean energy investment and jobs.When the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law last August, it unleashed a stream of clean energy...

Earlier this year, our community-based chapter of an international and nonpartisan climate education organization found itself without a place for our members to meet.We have no budget, and we rely on volunteers to carry out our mission. We are...