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The Academy of Music will host its first “Stitch ‘n’ Flix” movie screening — that is, a screening in which guests can bring their own craft project, like knitting or crochet, to work on while watching a movie in a theater with dimmed lighting — on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. (The only caveat is that the project must be “self-contained” and unable to produce mess.)

By GARRETT COTE

HOLYOKE — It didn’t take a Chauncey Ruiz buzzer beater or an overtime thriller for the Holyoke boys basketball team to defeat Northampton on Tuesday night like it has needed in previous games this season, but the Purple Knights did have to dig deep after going the first three and a half minutes of the fourth quarter without a point.

By MAYOR GINA-LOUISE SCIARRA

By KAREN KAUSCHEN

Funding our schools isn’t just about supporting our children today — it’s about lowering Northampton’s long-term costs associated with crime, social services, and lost tax revenue. The narrative that restoring $2 million to the school budget will take $10 million away from future capital improvements over five years overlooks a crucial truth: every dollar invested in education generates significant returns.

This letter is in response to Olin Rose-Bardawil’s column “The case for debate in our polarized times,” [Gazette, Jan. 10].

What a refreshing experience it is to read the marvelous columns by Olin Rose-Bardawil. I salute you, Olin for your insights, offerings and critical thinking. How refreshing!

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The director of Head Start and early learning programs in the city is joining the School Committee as Ward 2’s representative.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Area residents will have an opportunity to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., both in the lead up to the Jan. 20 holiday and during a National Day of Service on Monday, as well as participate in the National Day of Racial Healing the following day.

By DOUGLAS J. AMY

In their Jan. 4 columns, both writers Joe Silverman [“Climate in the court of public opinion”] and Sarena Neyman [“Killing sparked long-overdue dialogue about greed. We need to keep talking”] seem to think that if they had better messaging campaigns, their policy proposals would be widely accepted. If only others had the proper understanding, we could finally make progress on fixing these problems. But isn’t it possible that many do understand the authors’ conclusory views on taxes, wealth, and climate change and simply disagree with them?

This most certainly is an indictment of a so-called “economic system” that supposedly melds democracy with capitalism and produced an idiot class news industry, billionaire toxicity and a world that is literally on fire.

As the Northampton City Council considers a proposed ban on fossil fuels in new buildings, I urge them to consider the price tag on the alternative.

Many thanks to Jim Bridgman for his very informative blurb in “A Look Back” in the Gazette’s Jan. 4 edition. According to his column, the Gazette reported 38 deaths in the city of Northampton for 1824, a rate of mortality of 1 out of 87, suggesting that the population of the city at that time was 3,306. Bridgman did not list the causes of those deaths, but he did describe the breakdown of deaths by age group. One-quarter of the 38 deaths that year were children under the age of 10 (26%), while one-third of all deaths (34%) were children and teens below the age of 20.

Among the outrages of the Biden presidency, which include using presidential authority to pardon a family member and providing Israel with unlimited weapons to commit genocide, Biden broke campaign promises to reverse Donald Trump’s aggressive policies against Cuba, contributing to an economic crisis that has led to the emigration of over 10% of the population.

By BILL NEWMAN

Words matter. Some I wish I didn’t need to know.

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Northampton’s Naihmond Peters-Wolfe drilled a tough stepback jumper to put the Blue Devils boys basketball team ahead of South Hadley 46-40 early in the fourth quarter on Friday night, upping his total to 25 points for the game.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — It’s safe to say Ruth Griggs was a little unsettled when she looked at her latest property tax bill.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Possible rapid loss of both forests and farms in the Connecticut River Valley, as Massachusetts expedites the process for getting renewable energy projects online, is among concerns being addressed for the region’s rural communities in the new climate and energy state law, according to the local legislators who helped craft the legislation.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — After a quarter century downtown, Ten Thousand Villages is preparing to close its Main Street store for good on March 31.

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

In my column last month, I chose to discuss a subject, Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, that I knew would be controversial.

Like the writer of the Jan. 2 opinion column “Negotiate Ukraine peace now, not risk nuclear war with Russia,” and the two letter writers on Jan. 7, I too am alarmed at the growing possibility that we could get into a war with Russia if the U.S. and NATO decide to send in troops to bail out Ukraine’s exhausted and manpower-short army which keeps losing more and more territory; and if we keep letting Ukraine fire our long-range missiles into Russia, which is crossing a big red line for them. Such a “conventional” war could easily turn into full-scale nuclear war.