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2:01 p.m. — Reporting party on Montague City Road requesting an officer come to her residence. States someone stole her iPad and cellphone. Caller was advised an officer will be made aware and will respond when someone is available. Reporting party called back stating she found her iPad but still wants an officer to go there. She was advised an officer would be made aware. Caller was unhappy and hung up. Officer called her back and she hung up again.
3:47 a.m. — Reporting party states two people are attempting to break into a garage on Bernardston Road. Unable to provide a description of the vehicle, which left heading toward Bernardston. Reporting party saw two people on the cameras leaving the residence. They were not able to gain access to the garage.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
The annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival returns to Unity Park for the 12th year on Saturday, Aug. 2 and Sunday, Aug. 3, with special events on Friday, Aug. 1, to lead into the weekend celebration of Indigenous culture and history.
By GARRETT COTE
Just over a month ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder outlasted the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the NBA Finals to capture the franchise’s first championship since the team moved to Oklahoma City from Seattle in 2008. Confetti fell inside the Paycom Center as Thunder players celebrated on stage and accepted the Larry O’Brien trophy.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — After resident concerns about speeding prompted a speed and traffic study on Route 63, officials are now considering options for enforcement, backed by data from a speed and traffic study.
By LUKE MACANNUCO
GREENFIELD — Outside the Oak Courts housing complex, a line forms in front of a food truck that extends down into the neighborhood, with adults and children on bicycles waiting to pick up their Summer Eats meals.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School students will have a new playground just in time for the new school year.
The state of Massachusetts is lending new meaning to the line from Shakespeare’s history play, Henry VI, Part 2, when it comes to paying bar advocates. Also known as public defenders, these individuals are private attorneys who accept court appointments to represent defendants who cannot afford a lawyer. In Shakespeare’s play, the phrase is, “First, let’s kill all the lawyers.” The state seems to prefer, “First, let’s starve all the lawyers.”
I wanted to write in appreciation of the beautiful My Turn by Douglas Mayo (“Overcoming obstacles,” Recorder, July 23). Thank you for sharing your story and journey of perseverance and hope and the ways you continue to live that message and share your wisdom with others. In these horrible times of cruelty from our government against vulnerable individuals, reading inspiring stories of empathy, service and compassion gives me the motivation to keep going and to do what is right. Thank you for reminding us of the humanity inside every human and the importance of recognizing how each person holds value and is deserving of respect.
There is a key piece of information missing from the Recorder’s July 23 story regarding the administrative assistant hired to become the finance director of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District. How much is the district paying the inexperienced “only finalist interviewed,” who has no experience in a similar position, and for whom a mentor will be needed? Since the taxpayers of the district are paying the salary and associated costs, that information belongs in the story.
I’m not the best letter writer but I have a lot of people to thank.
Occasionally a masterpiece of writing is printed on the editorial page of the Recorder. Daniel Cantor Yalowitz’s July 23 column titled, “Challenges and benefits of witnessing testimony” is one such masterpiece. His column eloquently called to mind the visceral and physical experience of more than 150 individuals who recently witnessed a seminal event at Temple Israel of Greenfield.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Erving Senior & Community Center Activities Coordinator Dulcie McAndrews is taking the reins as the facility’s director following Paula Betters’ retirement.
By CHRIS LARABEE
NORTHFIELD — From infrastructure supporting the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station to nuclear material filters and machinery pieces for a variety of high-tech industries, Tri-State Precision has done a little bit of everything as it marks its 60th anniversary.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — After an hour-long public comment period during which a sizeable crowd of residents voiced concerns about Noble Home LLC’s plans to build 22 condominiums divided into multi-family buildings, the Conservation Commission continued the hearing to Aug. 12.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District is preparing for the start of the school year with new hires, while interim Superintendent Tari Thomas begins her entry plan.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
After extreme weather events brought about a particularly challenging growing season for Pioneer Valley farmers in 2023, this year’s peach crop appears to be shaping up to be devastating for some western Massachusetts farmers, while most weathered the storm.
By SHERYL HUNTER
Rosie Porter understands that there is no place like home. The country singer, a former resident of Greenfield, moved to California in 2024, and while she enjoys the West Coast and the move has positively impacted her career, she is eager to return to western Massachusetts for a three-week tour. The tour kicks off tonight, Thursday, July 24, at Shelburne Springs, 904 Mohawk Trail, from 6 to 8 p.m.
As a biology major … though I grant you, many years ago … I know some things remain irrefutable. When the numbers of any animal population exceeds the resources available to sustain a viable existence, or when the population is threatened by a new predator invading their habitat, behavior changes. Radically. Americans are suffering both afflictions.Worldwide, humans have overwhelmed the carrying capacity of the earth. Capitalism’s ethos of greed and individualism has resulted in irreversible global warming, mindless destruction of the forests, soil, and water sources, as well as producing more and more floods, fires and droughts. We seem hell-bent to prove what some scientists have long predicted; we are a short-lived species. And proving it at an increased rate thanks to the insanely regressive policies of a predator, i.e. this administration.Animals under such intense stress inevitably turn on one another. Survival becomes a matter of tooth and claw and no one is exempt from the battle. Mercy ceases to have a name. When I read about the conditions and cruelty in the American-style concentration camps, I thought, Lord, we can never say we didn’t know! The Germans falsely claimed that once but, alas, they watched. And we are watching.Many experience rising fears now that we live in a country unimaginable just six months ago. Compromised justice. A compromised Congress. A complicit Supreme Court. Peaceful protesters tear-gassed and jailed. Growing hunger, and unattended sicknesses. Blatant misogyny. Education at all levels perverted. Knowledgable federal workers fired from countless essential jobs. Brutal ICE raids.I wish I had a hopeful Disney-style conclusion to my words of near despair. As a reverent materialist, however, I must rely on our innate capacity to empathize with one another and our instinct to fight for a return to democracy.
This week we celebrate 35 years of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which includes employment, accessible buildings,school support for disabled and more.
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