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As an elder on a modest and fixed income who falls through many benefits cracks, I appreciate the efforts of Greenfield City Councilors Minhas and Mastrototaro in seeking new ways to support our elders and individuals with disabilities with a property...

By JON HUER

My wife, who is my severest critic, says I think like a 10-year old, which I interpret as a compliment. True, I tend to be simple-minded and linear as a 10-year-old child would be. After nearly half a century of working as a sociologist, writing a...

On April 13, the Greenfield tax collector bought a full-page advertisement in this newspaper announcing the city’s intention to “take” 35 parcels of land on May 3 for “non-payment after demand, of the taxes due thereon.” The list of properties for...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.” — Charles Caleb ColtonHeadline news everywhere screams of key contemporary themes involving “ego,” “self,” “it’s all about me,”… not to...

William Moomaw is a global authority on climate change. A founder of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy in 1992, he was a lead author of five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

I am disappointed that the Greenfield City Council succumbed to the bullying rabble that demands we all stick our noses in the middle of a thousands of years blood feud between Israelis and Arabs.Since I don’t have any investment in the military...

Thank you to reporter Anthony Cammalleri and the Recorder for publishing the article about the innovative programs supported by the Massachusetts Trial Court (“Promoting Justice,” March 21). I write only to make a minor correction regarding the...

It was heartening to see several recent op-ed page pieces supporting Sunshine Week, the national carve-out where publishers, editors, journalists and citizens highlight the necessity of access to government information, and the push for better access...

By AL NORMAN

Our rural Franklin County landscape has attracted large energy companies — from Tenneco in the 1970s to FirstLight today — seeking to own our woods and rivers to make electric power. Each of these corporations has green-washed their mission....

By RICHARD WITTY

To activists supporting a “permanent” cease-fire: A permanent cease-fire takes two to tango. Currently Hamas is rejecting a cease-fire proposal put forward by Qatar, Egypt, U.S., the EU and other Arab states.They prefer war. They prefer Gazans to...

The Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station is vying for a 50-year extension of its license. Comments to FERC are due by April 22, Earth Day.This request is from a Canadian company, registered in Delaware, that takes all the profits from our river...

Why do motorists race up to the red lights on the highways and streets? The motorist is not going anywhere until the signal changes. A theory exists that the better the interactions with others, the less one needs to beat another with your vehicle on...

By JOHN H. THOMPSON

I’m not a fisherman, but I love rivers. Rivers carry the rain and snow water back to the sea where it will be picked up by the sun again and delivered somewhere else in an endless hydrologic cycle.Almost magic! Easily elegant and awe-inspiring! A...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

I’ve received many blessings from my mother’s native Canada, as well as from the U.S., my father’s place of origin. It would be impossible to tally the resources I’ve enjoyed: cultural, linguistic, geographical, educational, economic, medical, and...