A Look Back, Aug. 3

Beginning, Again: At the Senior Center, arts and crafts foster friendship

Marlene Lesley moved from Baltimore to Northampton in August 2024 to live near her son and his family. Not one to put things off, she walked into the city’s Senior Center a few days later. “I don’t think I even waited a week,” she said.     She signed up as a member, picked up […]

Beginning, Again: Finding home, one match at a time

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story concludes a four-part series, “Beginning, Again” about people who moved to this area during their retirement years. Today’s piece is about Dorothy Barr, who moved to Florence from Cambridge and soon found a group of football fans at JJ’s Tavern. To read all of the stories in this series, visit gazettenet.com. Dorothy […]

Guest columnist Shane L. Dillon: Jeromie Whalen and a time for change

During the pivotal 2020 congressional cycle, I had the privilege of working for Representative Richard Neal. I was a high school student at the time, navigating a summer of newly lightened COVID-19 restrictions. Like many young people across Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District, I was driven by a dual pragmatism: the immediate need for employment and […]

1st Franklin District candidates talk school funding, affordability at Sunderland forum

Three candidates for the 1st Franklin District state representative seat discussed education funding, economic development and housing affordability during a Sunderland Democratic Town Committee forum on Wednesday night.

UMass Amherst professor wins $1.3M NIH grant to develop more accurate at-home HIV test

AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts Amherst engineering professor has developed an at-home HIV test sensitive enough to rival — or exceed — results from standard laboratory testing, and has won a two-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to move the technology toward commercial use. Chang Liu, an associate professor in […]