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I attended the wonderful Stone Soup Cafe-sponsored Harvest Supper on Aug. 24, and learned that it was initiated by the late Juanita Nelson, an advocate for local foods and farming. While at the event, I also noticed life-size likenesses of Juanita...

A gentle reminder that as we reach for cozy blankets with cooler temperatures, birds start their migration south. Lights on at night can confuse them, making their journey more difficult and dangerous. You can see who and how many are migrating at a...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Five years ago, when Florence’s Gabby Thomas moved down to Austin, Texas to begin her professional running career, her new coach Tonja Buford-Bailey decided to test her out. Thomas moved to Austin a few weeks ahead of the rest of Buford-Bailey’s...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Two was nice, but three is better.In a surprise twist, Florence’s Gabby Thomas did not close out her Olympic Games with a gold in the 4x100 meter relay.That’s because Thomas still had one more event left in the tank on Saturday – the 4x400...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Less than 48 hours removed from her gold medal in the 200 meters on Tuesday, Florence’s Gabby Thomas and the U.S. women’s 4x100 relay team advanced to the finals by winning their heat in 41.94 seconds on Thursday.Thomas will look for her second gold...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Gabby Thomas is golden.After winning a silver medal in the 4x100 meter relay and a bronze in the 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, the former Florence resident cleared the field in the 200 on Tuesday to claim the gold medal with a time of 21.83...

By RICHARD FEIN

 This column is about Saudi Arabia, a country that is changing domestically and may be important in establishing a degree of peace and security in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is an oil-rich monarchy ruled by the Saud dynasty. Sunni Islam is the...

While reading the State House News Service article “Details emerge in massive climate bill” (Recorder, June 17) it became obvious to me there was way more said between-the-lines than in the actual text. It is understandable that politicians in Boston...

By DOMENIC POLI

CHARLEMONT — Being born into slavery in a place called Libertytown is perhaps the ultimate irony.But that’s a significant part of the life story of Basil C. Dorsey, a self-emancipated man whose remarkable quest for freedom will be detailed by local...

Razvan Sibii’s thoughtful column questioning referring to this country as “America” raised interesting points for me when I read it this morning [“Should ‘America’ be a synonym for USA?” Recorder, May 22]. While viewing the recent biographical film on...

By RICHARD FEIN

This is an update on a column I wrote last year about a threat to our future well-being: the national debt. To summarize, unless the debt crisis is brought under control soon the future will be much more difficult for you, your children, grandchildren...

 Regarding the story “Collections in limbo” [Recorder, March 5], there was at least one previous, somewhat recent effort to start a proper natural history museum at UMass. About 25 years ago then-UMass biology professor Willy Bemis, an ichthyologist,...

By RICHARD FEIN

 This column is about the hardships facing people in Lebanon and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. I might have chosen any number of other countries to write about, so why these two? My concern is that the geopolitical issues relating to them are much...

By JOHN PARADIS

Here’s a statistic that should get everyone’s attention: The number of suicides in our country reached record levels last year. Depression and anxiety rates are at new heights, too. A New York Times article noted that teenagers are more concerned...

“The years teach much which the days never know.” — Ralph Waldo EmersonIn many cultures around the world, cultures far older than what we have here in the United States, elders are held in high regard. Their experience and knowledge serve to guide...

By JOHN SHEIRER

Last summer, I asked my boss about taking some time off to address a medical issue. “As the human body ages,” I said, “strange things happen.” We laughed.“You must have lots of sick time saved up after working more than 30 years,” he said. I showed...

By JAMES PENTLAND

FLORENCE — Fresh off his attempt to set the world record for distance traveled in a pumpkin boat, Dave Rothstein is celebrating a different kind of world championship — in snow sculpting.The Florence resident and his four-man team — Team Mexico — took...

By LARRY HOTT

It was February 2001. I was at my desk in our film studio reviewing every grant proposal I had written for our film “Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival,” which was based on the book by Jay Neugenboren.I met Jay four years earlier while...

By DOMENIC POLI

Hop in a car at the Stillwater Bridge in Deerfield and you can make it to the Dinosaur Footprints in Holyoke in about a half-hour. A bicycle can you get you there in roughly 2½ hours and walking will likely take you eight hours. Dave Rothstein now...

By DOMENIC POLI

If you wake up on Saturday morning and see a man paddling a pumpkin down the Connecticut River or the Deerfield River, don’t fret — you aren’t hallucinating. It just means the conditions are right for Dave Rothstein to try to break a Guinness World...