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It appears that more drivers are stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks. Walkers now should seek crosswalks to get from one side of the street to the other. Traffic control is taking turns. Motorists should slow down at crosswalks as many of us age 70...

Come to the Shea Theater in Great Falls (aka Turners Falls) on Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. Speak up for the Connecticut River. She needs you to speak her truth! Call for the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) to deny the Northfield Mountain Pumped...

We look weak, and it looks like we are led by cowards.Do not shoot me, I am a citizen of the U.S. from a military family.Karl Rove, committed treason in front of us all. F.B.I. looks weak, led by cowards. It appears it is OK to be a spy in Washington....

Regarding the article ”GBA brainstorms ways to boost biz in the area” [Aug. 24], I have lived on River Street in Greenfield for over 40 years, and have seen many changes in the neighborhood, which includes Mill Street and Deerfield Street. If the...

I am writing in response to a letter in the Recorder on Thursday, Aug. 15 by Greg Parody, “The left should look within.” He wrote, and I quote, “The left is letting criminals run free to commit crimes over and over again. People are waking up to the...

This past Tuesday, my son, Tom and his wife drove us to Williamstown to The Clark Art Institute. Later referred to as “The Clark.” It’s only an hour drive west on Route 2 from Greenfield.With a Greenfield Public Library card, one can borrow one free...

Kudos to Neil Jones for writing to the Recorder with his praise of the staff at the RMV. As I read it, I thought that I should have written that letter myself because I, too, experienced their excellent service recently. Everyone was courteous and...

Thank you to The Recorder for providing coverage of local issues in town government. I am painfully aware that this is a service, essential to democratic participation, that is no longer available to many localities across the country.Thank you also...

By AL NORMAN

On Dec. 29, 2021, Mitch Speight and Joan Marie Jackson had a letter dropped on their front porch in Greenfield by the county sheriff’s office. It was a “Notice to Quit” from a local law firm. “You are hereby notified and requested to vacate the...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZTo stay alive takes real courage in difficult times. Here in the U.S., as in so many places around the globe, we are deep in one of these challenging periods. There is a way out, or a way through. We are better off if we can...

Donald Trump, the blasphemer who referred to Christians as “my Christians,” is trying to convince Christians they belong to him, not to their God and His Son. He is filling the role of the beast described in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, verses...

By KATHERINE GOLUB

 I was disappointed by the recent article “Greenfield councilors debate proposed Code of Conduct,” [Recorder, July 12].The article misses the point and mischaracterizes my statements. I’m writing to set the record straight.I did not say that the...

By JON HUER

There is a Chinese phrase “jintui-liangnan,” which means you are caught in a situation from which you can go neither forward nor backward. The phrase is an apt reference to the dilemma of the American republic which faces trouble either way: If we go...

Just wondering if any thought has been given to installing a traffic light on Main Street where the fire trucks come and go? That way the traffic could be stopped when that happens.Wilmer JohnsonGreenfield

By JODI FALK

On May 28 at 6 p.m., a “Bring the hostages home” rally was held at the Greenfield common. Some of those gathered had Israeli flags, including one 83-year-old woman with a walker. An onlooker, a woman younger than 83, shouted “Genocide” relentlessly...

By ALAN HARRIS

The charade of the Republican convention surpasses all known levels of hypocrisy and sleight of hand. After the two apostates Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis got done with their reformation symphonies, and we were treated to shots of Trump’s face in...

Here’s something to think about, what would we do if both Joe Biden and Donald Trump died in their sleep tonight, of natural causes? Seriously, what would we, as individuals and institutions, do if that happened? I’m not asking for this, or suggesting...

In 1814, a Fleet of British warships with sails attacked Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. Six bombarded the fort. This fort was built in the shape of a star with many opportunities for the U.S. defenders to fight off the invaders. That is what they...

False doomsday climate predictions have been going on for decades and will continue with the likes of columns by Russ Vernon Jones and others with their wild Nostradamus predictions that never come true.I still remember the late 1970s watching a TV...

By RUTH CHARNEY

We did not clock our serious hours watching Celtic games. How many watching the playoffs? How many re-watching highlights of the playoffs? How many hours reading, talking, thinking, dreaming … go Celtics? There’s a story my father used to tell. It...

Many people like to watch the children run about and play without a care in the world. In the movie, “The Tea House of the August Moon,” a story of Okinawa, Post World War II, they sit quietly and contemplate the day, when the sun goes down.A man came...