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The widespread flooding that hit our region in mid-July illuminates many truths: the vulnerability of many local farms, the hard reality of climate change, and the amazing response that is possible when the community, non-profit and foundation...

Thanks to reporter Chris Larabee for the article about our recent weather variability [“Region reeling from ‘weather whiplash,” Recorder, Aug. 5]. I appreciate the chin-scratching about which elements of our current weather can be attributed to...

By BILL NEWMAN

This time it really matters. I’m not saying that the federal indictment in Florida — which accuses Trump of absconding with and hiding national security documents and lying to federal law enforcement about possessing those papers and, additionally,...

I applaud Sen. Jo Comerford for sponsoring bill S.445 which limits or bans the use of insecticides and protects beekeepers and organic farmers. Harnessing the power of Mother Nature to control mosquito populations is effective; it’s also...

By AMY NEWSHORE

When infidelity has been revealed, the worst nightmare in a marriage or relationship has become a reality. The life that was known before has now drastically changed into one of uncertainty and immense pain.The term “infidelity” is used here to mean a...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES and TIMMON WALLIS

While planning this piece last month, July 3-6 set a record for the hottest world average temperatures yet measured. Western Massachusetts was saturated almost daily with heavy humidity and rain, and floods devastated $10 million worth of farm crops....

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Greenfield Savings Bank will close two underperforming satellite branches in downtown Northampton and Amherst this fall, while at the same time renovating other branches in those municipalities to provide additional services to...

By J.M. SORRELL

Honesty. The sin of telling the truth when no one wants to listen. When the brilliant and incomparable Sinéad O’Connor died on July 26, rapper and actor Ice-T summed it up perfectly: “Respect to Sinead. She stood for something. Unlike most people.”On...

By MADDIE FABIAN

On a cloudy and humid Thursday morning, John Briggs was doing the same thing he has done since 2014: placing mosquito traps and collecting them for testing in the lab.But this time, recent prolonged heavy rains and heat meant that he was facing more...

By SUSAN WOZNIAK

The public lecture has long been the source of informal, social opportunities and continuing education. There were several such movements in America during the 19th century that opened exploration, science, arts and politics to ordinary people.In the...

By RICHARD FEIN

In the name of enrollment diversity, should race be a factor in college admissions? Should college student loan debts be forgiven in whole or in part because they are a burden on the debtor?College admissionsThis is my understanding. The case was...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A federal disaster area declaration for the region is being sought by the U.S. senators from Massachusetts and the U.S. representatives for the state’s four westernmost counties following the floods that have destroyed crops at area farms and the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A Pioneer Valley native has been tapped to take over the town’s community development administrator position.At the end of June, the Selectboard approved hiring Northampton native Sylvie Jensen to fill the role vacated by Hannah Davis. The...

By VALLE DWIGHT and BRIAN MELANSON

Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed update to the state’s sex education curriculum covers a range of important topics to ensure that students are getting comprehensive and medically accurate information about their bodies and their health.“All of our...

By PHIL WILSON

As the pandemic recedes, and leaves U.S. media pundits to survey the wreckage, we are already seeing a myopic, revisionist tendency to circumvent the details. Bob Woodward, appearing recently on Ari Melber’s show, “The Beat” on MSNBC, focused almost...

By CAROLE HOROWITZ

We are discouraged by the failure of the Massachusetts Legislature to limit the use of toxic pesticides in the commonwealth.This May, for the third time in six years, a grassroots coalition of scientists, doctors, wildlife veterinarians, farmers,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In the decade since Cooley Dickinson Hospital joined the system of then Massachusetts General Hospital, the partnership has shown its value in an expansion of services and capacity, the provision of expertise and support that helped the...

By BILL NEWMAN

Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again jettisoned a half-century of precedent, this time to gut affirmative action.Let’s be clear. This is not...

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — The Western Massachusetts Policy Center could have been called the “Eastern Massachusetts Policy Center,” or even the “Washington D.C. Policy Center,” but founder and CEO Lauren Rollins chose western Massachusetts as a base location for...

I agree with the June 29 opinion column “Stop double standard; tell truth about Ukraine.” [Recorder, June 9]. I really worry — not so much for myself as for my children and grandchildren — that if we don’t, we’ll sleepwalk toward the ever-increasing...