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By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes. For much of the year, our grocery stores offer tomatoes tough enough to endure machine picking followed by days or weeks in cold storage. Even the more expensive, so-called...

Garden report: The chipmunk is having a superb meals with my tomatoes — even green ones. I try to harvest every day to keep ahead of the little foodie, but the chipmunk is faster and can squeeze through the fence.The asters and hibiscus have bloomed....

By DR. KATHERINE J. ATKINSON

 When I read that the state was mandating insurance companies to cover urgent care centers in Massachusetts, my blood started boiling. The Massachusetts Legislature can force insurance companies to pay for “doc-in-the-boxes” but not for primary care?...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — An Army medic in the Vietnam War who earned a Purple Heart, Hadley resident Bob O’Neil returned home more than 50 years ago with no fanfare or community celebration recognizing his service.As with fellow resident, veteran and Purple Heart...

By CHRIS MOHN

Due to rising incidents of antisemitism, an amendment to our state budget signed Monday by Gov. Maura Healey Senate will require teaching about antisemitism. The amendment calls for for the creation of a Special Commission on Antisemitism and directs...

The celebration by Gov. Maura Healey and state Sen. Jo Comerford for reprimanding municipalities against controverting the U.S. Constitution by stealing equity in property tax seizures is like commending a thief for agreeing to stop stealing, but not...

Am i supposed to feel sympathy for the individual featured on the Gazette’s front page with the article regarding campus violence [“Fallout only beginning for those arrested at protests,” Aug. 5]?I don’t think so. As a descendant of German Jews, I am...

Thank you for highlighting (again) the crisis in primary care [”Primary care in crisis,” Gazette, July 27].As the board chair of Mass-Care: The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, I appreciate being quoted, but I want readers to...

We appreciate the article by reporter Chris Larrabee, “Farmers grateful for more typical growing season after 2023 floods devastated fields,” [July 17]. Devastating is a good word for it: River flooding on July 10, 2023 swept away millions of dollars...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

AMHERST — On the 10th floor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center, Samuel Noel, a welder by trade, works as a dishwasher — his first job in the United States.Noel, a Haitian immigrant who moved to Greenfield’s Days Inn shelter on...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — After three site visits, the South County Senior Center Board of Oversight and its director sat down with architecture firm edmStudio to lay out their desires for a future home for the Senior Center.The Board of Oversight, Director...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — More than 37% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the billions of tons of concrete, asphalt, steel, glass and other construction materials used in buildings and other infrastructure projects, according to U.S....

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A small undeveloped and land-locked parcel along the Connecticut River off Hockanum Road is being accepted as a gift to the town by the Select Board, even though no formal policy is in place for receiving such properties.With support from the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Hatch Laboratory, a late 19th-century Colonial Revival wood-framed building and remnant of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at the University of Massachusetts campus, was demolished this week.Located at 140 Holdsworth Way, the...

By PAIGE HANSON

This summer, ice cream enthusiasts statewide can explore the newly established Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail, a self-guided tour of more than 100 ice cream shops in Massachusetts.Of the 100 locations statewide, seven of them are in Hampshire...

By ALEXA LEWIS

Michael Haynack is alive today because of what he calls a “cascade of miracles.”The first of those miracles was the presence of his longtime friend Frank Grindrod when an unexpected heart attack threatened his life. The second, and perhaps most...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A documentary profiling Swing-era clarinetist Artie Shaw, a musical comedy featuring 1960s-pop band The Monkees and one of African cinema’s first musicals are among this year’s selections in an annual summer celebration of music culture through film...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A serious accident involving two boats that injured one person on Lake Wyola in June is prompting town officials to begin forming a committee to examine overhauling a bylaw that governs use of the 128-acre site.But with the Select Board...

As of Aug. 1, the Bulletin is now available for free pickup at over 60 locations throughout Amherst, Belchertown, Hadley, Hatfield, South Deerfield and Sunderland. With this increased availability in the area, the Bulletin is no longer being mailed. A...

Bulletin Readers,On Aug. 1, 2024, we are changing how the Amherst Bulletin is distributed. Effective with the Aug. 1 edition, the Bulletin will be available weekly for free pickup at nearly 60 locations throughout Amherst, Belchertown, Hadley,...