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Thank you, Daniel Brown, for your Nov. 15 column [“Hypocrisy Now! The American left and Israel”].In addition to the double standards and hypocrisy, there is the matter of our historical ignorance that he addressed.I feel like the old farmer Wang Lung...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The butcher is back.Avery’s General Store has partnered with Heath’s Freeman Farm to bring hand-cut butchering back to the store after a five-year hiatus. Customers can now come to the meat counter and buy cuts of local grass-fed beef....

Dec. 2: Author Joan Livingston talk CHARLEMONT — Shelburne Falls author Joan Livingston will talk about her writing experience including her latest novel, “Northern Comfort,” on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. at Tyler Memorial Library. Like most of...

Historical Society selling calendars BUCKLAND — The Buckland Historical Society’s 2024 calendar of Robert Strong Woodward’s paintings, titled “Rugged New England,” is now available for $20.The calendars can be purchased at Andy’s & The Oak Shoppe, 352...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Published author, professional organizer and designer Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson’s biggest piece of advice about getting your house organized is to stop buying bins. Tomlinson visited the Tyler Memorial Library last month for an event sponsored by the...

After reading of all the bad news happening in the world, I was overjoyed to read in the Nov. 4 Recorder of the efforts of the students in Cherilyn Bulger’s Essential Skills class at Greenfield High School, who are raising money for the Wounded...

As a fiscal conservative, I was delighted to see the success of the BEACON Learning Program [“Giving students a beacon of hope” Recorder, Nov. 4]. Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Most people look for solutions,...

Nov. 8 school talk to center on life choicesBUCKLAND — The Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts are inviting the community to gather for a talk on life choices led by Ron L. James in the auditorium of Mohawk Trail Regional School on...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that we have school shootings because parents no longer teach their children the difference between right and wrong. Yet Mr. Johnson played a key role in the House’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. Say again —...

By SHERRILL HOGEN

On Oct. 7, Palestinian militants burst out of Gaza and invaded Israel. They broke through fences and walls built by Israel to keep them out — or rather to keep them in.To keep them inside Gaza, under surveillance and deprived of control over their...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — If we take down monuments and there is no physical record of their having existed, would we forget about the past? How can we use historical objects to see how we came to that juncture in time and to inform where we need to go in the...

By CARL DOERNER

Early in his leadership of Blacks for civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Riot is the language of the unheard.” While those protests were nonviolent, the phrase has evolved to “violence is the language of the unheard.” As an historian...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Although the town opted against updating its cell tower bylaws at the request of resident Jonathan Mirin in 2021, the Planning Board may discuss the topic on Thursday.Mirin is a Charlemont resident and co-founder of Hilltown Health, an...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The fast-growing sport of backcountry skiing is hitting the country by storm and Franklin County is a driver in this wave.On Thursday, the Western Massachusetts Backcountry Alliance held its inaugural party at Berkshire East Mountain...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Charlemont Forum has teamed up with The Academy at Charlemont to host a special fall event over Zoom. On Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m., the two organizations will host photographer Jesse Freidin, who is presenting his newest exhibit...

Candlelight tour being postponed HAWLEY — The state Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Hawley Historical Commission have postponed their interactive tour of the Old Town Common to Monday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. due to anticipated rain....

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — With campsites at the Mohawk Trail State Forest closed due to water system and infrastructure repairs, park rangers have been enjoying the glory of this state gem with more solitude than in previous years.“I have been getting people to...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — A judge informed the owners of the long-vacant Charlemont Inn on Sept. 14 that they have until Nov. 17 to find a buyer for the property before the court decides about foreclosure.The owners, Charlotte Dewey and Linda Shimandle, owe more...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — As a nearly lifelong resident of Charlemont, Kathy Reynolds feels a particular kinship with her fellow residents, or in her own words, “my people.”Many of those people have gotten to know Reynolds during her 22-year career working in town...

Ah, the end justifies the means. Really? Why do we have state and federal representatives? None should be paid until they resolve this. I'm thinking seriously about what laws I shall honor or ignore, too.Marguerite WillisCharlemont