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Toying around with the English language can be both a fun and formidable enterprise. On the surface, the erudite and studied will argue until they are blue in the face that socialism is different than fascism. Better still, try to bring up comparisons...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With bodies of water receding and brush fires throughout the state, it was clearly a dry fall for the Pioneer Valley and new data analysis confirms the season was historically dry for western Massachusetts.Preliminary National Weather Service data for...

By ALLEN WOODS

In the weeks since the gut punch of Donald Trump’s reelection, The Boston Globe reports that some fervent supporters of Kamala Harris have fully retreated from the political arena — an area that now feels like the Roman Colosseum where slaves and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY —  South Hadley is the last community in Hampshire County to receive the green community designation from Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.On Nov. 22, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced three new communities and...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

Leading a roughly 100-person crowd across a two-day, 43-mile trek from Springfield to Greenfield, NEPM radio host Christopher “Monte” Belmonte raised more than $572,000 to end hunger during the 15th annual March for the Food Bank.Belmonte, dressed as...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and SAMUEL GELINAS

In the days following the presidential election, local LGBTQ organizations began hosting support sessions to help foster community amid rising fears that a second Trump administration will rollback the progress made on rights and legal protections...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With a fist raised in the air, state Sen. Jo Comerford and dozens of advocates and business leaders, as well as state and local officials, rallied in support of the Northern Tier Passenger Rail Monday morning at the John W. Olver Transit...

By TOLLEY M. JONES

This morning I stood in front of my altar and lit its candles, held a stub of palo santo to the sputtering flame, and even before I spoke I felt the tingling and buzzing in my shoulders and arms that let me know The Ancestors were already there...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Educators from more than 24 schools and districts throughout the region gathered at Greenfield Community College Wednesday morning as keynote speaker Gaelin Elmore, a former NFL player, spoke of his tumultuous childhood and how community...

By ALLEN J. DAVIS

 This presidential election, the most important since 1860 when Lincoln’s victory saved the Union, will be decided by relatively few votes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, just like in 2016 and 2020. The race...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD – Gov. Maura Healey joined local and state officials outside the Franklin Regional Transit Authority’s (FRTA) offices Thursday afternoon to celebrate her administration’s $30 million earmark to fund year-round, fare-free transportation...

By Melissa Karen Sances

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a...

By ROB OKUN

 With so many women’s lives in danger, men remain the largest group of passive supporters of reproductive rights in the country. We very well may hold the key that opens the front door to the White House.It’s no secret that men, especially young men,...

By AMALIA WOMPA

Vidhi Salla, a radio host, author and journalist whose focus is on Indian cultural arts, is pioneering the introduction of Bollywood to New England theaters.Salla grew up in Mumbai and studied literature before moving to southern Vermont in 2018 to...

By DOMENIC POLI

WORCESTER — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center’s executive director is being sued by a former co-worker alleging she has lost out on consulting contracts because of damaging information spread by her ex-colleague.Maura Geary is the first...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ever since Cash, a purebred black Labrador retriever, was about 8 weeks old, he has been University of Massachusetts senior Rachel Pranga’s constant companion, with her around the clock no matter where she goes or what she does.“He literally...

By TOLLEY M. JONES

 Oppressive regimes, governments, religions and family systems rely on silence to fester and thrive. Their weak and parasitic exoskeleton depends on a steady supply of hapless victims who either helplessly, unknowingly, or willingly remain within the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority will go fare-free beginning Nov. 1, part of a statewide “Try Transit” initiative that provides funding to allow transit authorities to waive fees for riders.PVTA said that no fares or passes will be...

By AL NORMAN

Solar facilities and battery storage have been protected in Massachusetts from local zoning bylaws since 1985. “In codifying solar energy as a protected use,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has written, “the Legislature determined...

By AMALIA WOMPA

America’s fastest-growing sport has continued to find avid players in Franklin County, and now, two longtime residents are traveling to Washington D.C. to compete for the ultimate title.The intergenerational team, Todd “Happy” Boynton, 51, of...

By DOMENIC POLI

The Source to Sea Cleanup has provided a valuable service to the Connecticut River Valley since its 1997 inception. And it can provide receipts.Nearly 40,000 volunteers have removed 1,100 tons of trash, almost 14,000 tires and 144,000 beverage...