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Gary Michael Tartakov really nailed it in his Nov. 29 guest column, “Dems must truly become the party of the working class.” Progressive Democratic politicians must revolutionize their party or start a new one to counter the authoritarian drift of our...

I was privileged to spend some time in Amman, Jordan in the spring of 1991. I had no language and was impaired, but tried to learn as best I could. I encountered a number of Palestinians. At one point I was convinced every cab driver was a Palestinian...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — High school students aren’t the only ones learning from South Hadley High School’s criminal justice vocational program.During the spring semester, members of the class of 23 students will be at the Police Academy in Holyoke to act out...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Select Board recently made another key decision in the town’s effort to move to a new trash system next July 1, approving 65-gallon trash carts with orange tops and 95-gallon recycling carts with black tops.Earlier this year, the...

Donald Trump says he is going to put punishingly high tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China for non-economic reasons. Instead of actually tackling immigration and fentanyl head on, he imagines tariffs as a some kind of “magic bullet” that will force...

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...

The need for affordable housing is urgent. As I drive through South Hadley, I see signs supporting equality and social justice, but none advocating affordable housing — an essential social justice issue.Our country is failing to address housing needs...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College will endow two new faculty chairs named after accomplished alums Debra Martin Chase, a film and musical producer, and Suzan-Lori Parks, a playwright, thanks to an anonymous $6 million gift — the largest gift from a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members voted down all four zoning bylaw amendments at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday, with a majority of residents expressing dissatisfaction about the lack of mandated affordable housing and natural resource...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Applications to join the board of trustees for the town’s first Affordable Housing Trust opened earlier this week, taking a major step forward in creating an organization dedicated to developing deed-restricted affordable housing in...

By POLICE CHIEF JENNIFER GUNDERSEN

 At a recent Community Office Hours, I had the opportunity to hear from longtime South Hadley resident Ray Rondeau. Mr. Rondeau explained to me, like many other residents have during my community conversations, that the aggressive driving in South...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members will discuss eight bylaws to update the flexible development zoning bylaw, create animal impoundment guidelines and remove lawn care requirements during a special Town Meeting on Wednesday.The meeting at the Pioneer...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Within the first few minutes of Robert Mandeville’s arrival at Loomis Village each day, 30 to 40 seniors crowd into the mailroom to chat with “Bob the Mailman.” “They (Loomis Village residents) don’t have visitors coming in all the...

On Nov. 6, Donald J. Trump Sr. won election to a second term as president of the United States. With this development, the work of those who value democracy in this country has entered a new phase.In a Sept. 30 letter to the Gazette, I wrestled with...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A proposal to construct a new Mosier Elementary School building is moving forward after the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s board of directors approved the project to begin its feasibility phase. “We’re pretty thrilled,”...

I am writing to express my concern regarding proposed Article 9, which the South Hadley Planning Board intends to bring to a vote at the special Town Meeting on Nov. 13. In talking to my neighbors and people I know in town, many are totally unaware...

The article on new and amended zoning bylaws being voted on at the Nov. 13 South Hadley Town Meeting just scratches the surface of residents’ alarm over the harm they will cause. The zoning hands our town to developers.Even the chairs of the Tree...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Despite a recent police staffing study suggesting South Hadley hire five more officers to fill in patrol gaps, residents at a recent forum had a different idea — reduce the workload of existing officers by spending more to address the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Even as about a third of eligible voters in the region and across the state have already cast their ballots in the presidential election, many more voters are expected to come out to the polls on Tuesday to decide national, state and local races, as...

I have been both puzzled and disappointed by the Kamala Harris campaign’s failure to put strengthening Social Security at the center of its message. This is an issue that transcends race and region, and appeals to a large majority of voters.Currently,...

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — A South Hadley man was sentenced to serve five to seven years in state prison after admitting in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday that he stole more than $100,000 in goods from antique businesses in Northampton and Deerfield in 2023,...