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By DAVID KEMPF

Lt. Joe Kenda often says on the ID Channel, “Well, well, well, look what we have here.”Let’s look at the recent My Turn by Ben Clarke, “We’re better than this,” [Recorder, Aug. 11]. The writer points out Trump being arrested for the fourth time, and...

By ANNE LOUISE SMALLEN

The MAGA House Republicans are holding the United States hostage by refusing to pass or discuss the White House’s budget. They are playing dangerous games by pushing the country toward default. If we do not pay our debts, our international standing...

By CAROL LETSON

It is that time of year, again, when the snow has left the roads and sidewalks, and we can see what has been left behind.Because I walk all around Greenfield, I welcome the opportunity to collect the wide variety of odds and ends that are left on our...

By CARL DOERNER

There were those in the South who fought and lost a war over whether white-skinned people were superior to others. They also thought they were entitled to gain wealth from the labor of people they had shipped here from Africa.Defeated, some put on...

By LAURA JOSEPHS LEMM

Living in Greenfield, I am often amazed by how many excellent things exist in one place. We came to this area on a whim about seven years ago, and having been fairly nomadic beforehand, didn’t necessarily expect to stay long. Since then, we have...

By MARGOT FLECK

In 1948, writer Henry Beston lamented: “What has come over our age is an alienation from Nature unexampled in human history. It has cost us our sense of reality and all but cost us our humanity.”I agree with Beston but I don’t want to let my thoughts...

By MIKE LEONARD

The New Forestry Deal is revised legislation that will encourage Massachusetts landowners to keep their land in forest rather than developing it and help both private and municipal forest landowners better manage their forestland.Massachusetts has 3...

By PAM KELLY

To understand the plight that we human beings are in, you have to understand what causes climate change, rising temperatures and weather instability. To sum it up, the cause is increasing greenhouse gases. There are about six families of greenhouse...

By KATE CLAYTON-JONES

In early February I lost a colleague and friend. Emily Armstrong, RN, BSN, who worked for FootCare by Nurses in the Berkshires, suffered a fatal aneurism and died. She was just 35 years old. She was on her way out to go ice fishing with her husband...

By DOUG SELWYN

The MCAS are set to begin in two weeks, and though you won’t hear much comment from teachers or administrators (because they are afraid of being punished for speaking out), there is great concern about the harm the tests do, particularly to students...