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So many of us feel an urgent need to do something right now, even as we simultaneously feel powerless. In fact, there are things we can do — many powerful things. Culturally, we tend to value big, grand actions, but small acts add up in ways we cannot know.

Dear community members, local business owners and community organizations in Franklin County! I want to take the time to thank everyone who helped make our ninth annual Thanksgiving meals for less fortunate families a huge success.As the founder of...

I’ve always been fascinated by how the whole system works. You have the masters and you have the puppets. Those who pull the strings and those who are strung along. The small groups of people having the say over the larger groups of people who don’t....

I use our library often. Over the last week or two the side door, sliding and “automatic” and presumably controlled by a computer has been closed due to a malfunctioning part. The front door is open but also of the same type as the side, now...

We are fortunate to have such a great team working for us at the RMV. Each time I have been there I have received terrific service. They will ask “what brings you in today,” and then you will be directed on where and how to proceed. To all of the...

I called the Greenfield Department of Public Works and asked a simple question: What happens to Greenfield trash? Where does our trash go for final processing — an incinerator, a landfill? Is Greenfield trash hauled to Long Island and dumped on Joey...

 Through the years American presidents have been stalked by the Lone Gunman. While conspiracy theories have tried to link these attacks to larger conspiracies, the conclusion always comes back to the fact that these shooters were people very much like...

By LIESEL NYGARD

GILL — After at least 47 years of combined service, the leaders of the Gill Newsletter have retired and passed the torch on to their successors.In March, editor Susan LaScala, along with Barbara Watson who solicits advertisements and Harry van Baaren...

As the founder of Parents for Plant Medicine, I would like to offer a correction to the recent article “Push to legalize psychedelics in Mass. met with caution” [Recorder, May 28], which incorrectly stated that my organization supported the failed...

On Saturday, May 18, the Village of Light Ashram in Leverett is sponsoring aWalk for Peace in Gaza.This walk, beginning at the Leverett Town Hall and ending at the Peace Pagoda, is meant to include everyone. It is a testimony of the heart that seeks...

Violent protests are not effective For me, my faith dictates non-violence, and some might say that is indicative of my white privilege. Perhaps. However, realistically and strategically, violent protests will not promote the students’ cause, no matter...

Emmet is choice for Heath board As town election time approaches, Heath is fortunate to have as a candidate for Selectboard Will Emmett, who has served the town in multiple capacities, both volunteer and elected.Will moved to Heath in 2006 and...

No taxation without representationThe students of Frontier Regional make a compelling argument to lower the voting age to 16. Actuarially speaking, a 16-year-old has a far greater stake in the decisions made by our elected officials than a 60-year-old...

I applaud writer Patricia Greene’s efforts to support peace in the world wherever it is threatened [“There would be no war in Ukraine without the U.S.,” Recorder, March 23], but I am unconvinced of the claim stated in the headline of her column. I am...

It is disheartening to hear that our state Legislature is one of the least transparent in the nation. While we see our House and Senate representatives do so much for the districts they serve, writing and passing important legislation, there are also...

Please give me a few moments as I enter Dr. Peabody’s Way-Back Machine.Sometime within five years and before 2008 I encountered as a School Committee member a new line item in Hawlemont’s school budget: Homeless children charge. I noted to those in...

I am quite upset with fuel assistance. They give assistance to all these “refugees” that come into the state before the people who were born in Massachusetts and have lived here all their lives. Yes, that means nothing. We were told there were...

We would like to thank the Greenfield Recorder for including a newsworthy quote from 2023 exposing the unconstitutional, immoral actions of Greenfield in taking more than what is owed for delinquent property taxes, like other municipalities across...

FirstLight’s Northfield Mountain pumped storage facility is a vile affront. It’s death and destruction. Profits are extracted, dead fish, and a crippled river are left behind. As if it was OK, I had become accustomed to its ongoing operation. Had...

Jon Huer’s Jan. 13 column is titled “Where hate burns in America.” It burns practically every day on this liberal editorial page, but of course, Huer is referring to Donald Trump and the Republican Party. That’s all this writer does is tear into Trump...

You might have noticed a few people dressed in bright orange jumpsuits on a recent Saturday in downtown Greenfield. Those orange suits are the uniforms worn by the prisoners at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.As of April 2023, the U.S. has...