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By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A.J. Hastings stationery and newsstand helped to anchor downtown Amherst for 108 years before closing last year. Wilson’s Department Store was a centerpiece of Greenfield’s retail scene for 137 years until it shuttered in early 2020.While...

By GENE STAMELL

I need a new cellphone. My iPhone 8 is more than just six generations old; it is cracked and crotchety, begging to be replaced. And, unfortunately, I am wedded to purchasing iPhones. I have used Apple products, exclusively, throughout my...

Mount Toby Concerts hosting benefit for TASSN LEVERETT — Mount Toby Concerts is hosting a benefit concert on Friday, March 31, to support the Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network (TASSN), a solidarity-based network supporting queer and transgender...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Funding for a new nature trail and park associated with the historic North Leverett Sawmill will be decided at Annual Town Meeting this spring, but no money will go toward a rehabilitation planning grant for the 200-year-old Moore’s Corner...

As the latest snowstorm recedes and driveways and sidewalks are cleared and power is restored our thoughts turn to spring. Flowers, planting leaves, mowing. My thoughts, such as they are, turn to the actions of the current leadership of what used to...

By GENE STAMELL

For those readers who like to skim through guest columns, you are in luck. If you have ever traveled on Southwest Airlines, I invite you to hop down to paragraph four. For all others, I offer the following, brief description of Southwest’s boarding...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A request to use Community Preservation Act money to help fund the town’s share of a $4.7 million track and field overhaul at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School will not come before Annual Town Meeting this spring, though an effort to...

Lenten Discussion Series coming to Sunderland, Whately The 26th annual Lenten Discussion Series continues on Wednesdays, March 8 and 15, with stops at the Sunderland and Whately congregational churches. Sessions are offered both in person and remotely...

UMass wants to privatize more than 100 jobs. Imagine having to reapply to a job you’ve had for 20 years. As a 29-plus year employee at UMass and witness to the anti-union sentiment for all those years, I can confidently state that if it took 20 years...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A municipal building that served as the town’s library for 87 years, and for the past two decades has been a repository for historic objects held by the Leverett Historical Society, continues to have an uncertain future.Following several...

Mount Toby Concerts presents ‘Power of the Protest Song’ LEVERETT — Mount Toby Concerts will continue its concert series on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. at 194 Long Plain Road, when Pamela Means will present “The Power of the Protest Song: Our Shared...

By GENE STAMELL

My mother was a big advocate for guilt. “Guilt builds character,” she would say. “If you feel some guilt, you will become a better person.” I’m not sure her opinion influenced my choice of spouse, but my wife of 43 years once told me that she has...

By MARY BYRNE

At least two Franklin County groups were among nearly 100 national, state and local organizations to call upon President Joe Biden this week to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.In a letter sent to the president on...

By Gene Stamell

In December, Andrea Ayvazian wrote a lovely column about the miracle of the human body. Her thoughtful piece reminded me of discussions I used to have with several third grade classes (I taught elementary school for over 35 years). I would pose the...

Village Neighbors seeks volunteers, call managersWENDELL — The nonprofit serving people ages 60 and older in Shutesbury, Leverett, New Salem and Wendell will hold a volunteer orientation on Tuesday.The hybrid meeting on Zoom and in person at the...

Watermelon Wednesdays raising money to support its operations WHATELY — As Watermelon Wednesdays heads into its 24th year of bringing music to Whately, the concert series is putting out a fundraising call to keep the music coming.Watermelon Wednesdays...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A shelter for unwanted and homeless pets established on Montague Road in 1995, creating a small campus for the adoption of dogs, cats and other small animals, is currently closed, and it’s possible that the site may not reopen.The Dakin...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — Clinician Leeanne Hadsel began her duty serving alongside local police departments last week, marking what she called a “cultural” next step forward in providing mental health services to those in crisis.Motivated by a regional history of...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Leverett Police Officer Meghan Gallo has been sworn in as Wendell’s new animal control officer.Gallo, 26, takes over for longtime animal control officer Maggie Houghton, who recently stepped down after moving up her planned retirement date....

By DOMENIC POLI

LEVERETT — Michael J. Kittredge II, whose homemade candle as a cash-strapped teenager evolved into an industry giant, has died. He was 67.Kittredge, founder of the Yankee Candle Co., died Wednesday evening at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston...