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The Institute of Museum and Library Services provides necessary funding and administrative funding to museum and library programs.

President Trump’s first important action is pardoning all Jan. 6 Capitol rioters (1,500-plus) regardless of what they did. One hundred and seventy-four U.S. Capitol Police officers were attacked and nearly a dozen people died in connection with the riot. Some of these rioters are members of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

By DR. E. MARTIN SCHOTZ

Today marks the 61st anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. In the last year of his presidency, Kennedy took extraordinary steps in the direction of world peace. He tried to educate the public by outlining his understanding of the world...

I want to send out to all voters an important message. All must vote this election. There are too many issues that need to be handled by our government. Our voices can be heard when we cast our vote.Action can happen. We can all make this country a...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

The Hilltown History Trail was started out of a desire to enable community members to access the rich and thoughtful local history museums often open only a few hours per week. It is returning for its third year the first Saturday in August, despite...

By LARRY HOTT

In 1945, the U.S. Office of War Information came to Cummington to shoot “The Cummington Story,” a propaganda film about tolerance and acceptance of immigrants.The people of the small western Massachusetts hilltown had several European refugees living...

I have learned that a new regulation is being worked on by the Massachusetts Department of Environment Protection called the “clean heat standard.” As a homeowner, I am asking that all Massachusetts homeowners oppose this regulation because it will...

By KATY EISEMAN

 The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a bill that would once again increase subsidies for burning wood, taking the state in the wrong direction in the name of “clean” energy.Biomass energy has been a controversial topic in Massachusetts for...

There are so many problems with Daniel A. Brown’s My Turn, “The blood libel of Zionists, Holocaust” [Recorder, March 12] that one hardly knows where to begin. But let’s start with this paragraph. The writer laments, “I’ve written numerous My Turns...

This is in response to two recent columns, one from Dr. E. Martin Schotz [“Rethinking U.S. interests on  anniversary of war,” Feb. 20] and one from Lyle Denit [“Ukraine deserves a better kind of peace,” March 4]. Both are well-considered perspectives,...

Lyle Denit has written a reply to my guest column [”Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war in Ukraine,” Recorder, Feb. 20] criticizing my view on the causes of the war in Ukraine [“Ukraine deserves a better kind of peace,” Recorder, March 4]....

By DR. E. MARTIN SCHOTZ

 With the approaching second anniversary of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, we can expect that there will be various solutions offered to the current war there. On one side there will be calls for billions more in U.S. and NATO military aid...