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I was distressed to learn about the history of slavery in our local area in the article ”Tracing slavery’s stain” [Gazette, Dec. 19]. I was not aware of the involvement of local community members in owning slaves and maintaining this horrible and...

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

Five years ago, Muriel “Monik” Johnson watched her friend transform. Leah was a vibrant artist who loved going dancing. Though only 4-foot-9, she delighted in kissing Johnson’s face, starting at her chin, working clockwise to her forehead while she...

By JOHN BERKOWITZ

 While I agree with some of Richard Fein’s ideas in his Dec. 23 column about the need to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war [“Ukraine, Russia and a potential ceasefire”], he left out the most important reason for doing so. Continued escalation on the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Several residents of the Walter Salvo House on Conz Street are now a little more connected to the digital world, after receiving new laptops as part of a program run through Northampton Neighbors, a non-profit focused on serving older...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Sue Stubbs isn’t afraid of taking risks — in fact, she welcomes it.In the 1980s, near the beginning of Stubb’s 44-year career as ServiceNet’s CEO, there weren’t any homeless shelters to serve Northampton’s unsheltered population. The...

By J.M. SORRELL

I miss my younger years when resolutions for the coming year included getting more physically fit, reading a certain number of books, helping others in need and being kinder to bad drivers. While some people eschew the ritual, I continue to appreciate...

The Gazette will publish on New Year’s Day with a delivery deadline of 7:30 a.m. Customer service will be available from 7 to 10 a.m. at 586-1925.

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

This is a warning: our new ambassador to Israel will be one-time presidential Republican candidate, Mike Huckabee, an avowed Christian Zionist, along with roughly 10 million other Americans. Once asked what he thought of an independent Palestinian...

By SARA ELKINS

I am writing out of great concern for keeping President Joe Biden’s many large grants to our city safe from incoming president Donald Trump’s legal clawbacks. He has already voiced his plans before even taking office that he will try to claw back...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Expectant mothers prescribed medication for substance use disorders can seek prenatal care without risk of being reported to the state’s Department of Children and Families, under the omnibus opioid bill signed into law this week.That...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city is changing electric vehicle charging rates at stations it owns, with the hope of making EV charging more affordable for residents.Since October, the city has charged $1.92 per hour at public EV charging stations, which offer a...

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

Glitter. Sparkle. Bedazzle. Shine.When Mara Levi and Nova Wehman-Brown started dreaming of a Winter Ball, these four words came to mind. The executive director and the board president of the Queer Joy Collaborative wanted their inaugural event to be...

By CAROLYN BROWN

First Night Northampton, the city’s annual New Year’s Eve festival, will return this year on Tuesday, Dec. 31, from noon to midnight, celebrating its 40th anniversary.The event will feature, as always, fireworks (at 6:15 p.m., to give children a...

By GARRETT COTE

Come fall, which is perhaps the best time to get out and play a round of golf thanks to the combination of lovely weather and gorgeous foliage, every golfer in New England knows the inevitable winter weather is on the horizon. Yet despite being aware...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — On the second floor of Thornes Marketplace stands what was once a common occurrence in malls across America, but like malls is fading into obscurity with the advent of the digital age.It’s a photo booth, where people can come, sit inside...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — High school students from the city’s Youth Commission met with Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler late last week as part of an effort to try to get more state funding for the district via the commonwealth’s Chapter 70 program.The...

Auditions for ‘Love Letters’ The volunteer theater company Valley Players will hold auditions for the play “Love Letters” by appointment only on Monday, Jan. 6, and Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst.The show,...

By CARRIE N. BAKER

In November 2022, a group of anti-abortion doctors and a dentist filed a lawsuit in Amarillo, Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000. They asked the court to ban the medication...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Jean-Luc Wittner had a good career in France, working high-paying corporate jobs such as a sales representative for a large wine purchasing company. But he also felt deeply unfulfilled.“I made money, more money than I do now, but I was...