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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...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Eight weavers in Shelburne Falls, Conway and Florence will open their studios to the public this weekend for demonstrations and sales as part of the Working Weavers’ fifth Studio Trail tour. Studios will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,...

By DON BAUMER

The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be largely about the truth — who is telling it, and who isn’t. Although debate over the truthfulness of politicians is not exactly new (Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton come to mind), its prominence in the...

By DOMENIC POLI

If you’ve noticed more ants in your house, shed or basement this summer, you’re not alone.Heavy rain makes for the soggy conditions that are ideal for the insects, and a near-record level of precipitation in Massachusetts in July has resulted in ant...

Robert Perschel’s recent response to my op-ed (“Half a loaf in the climate crisis? Healey initiative hurts forests,” Recorder, July 5) requires a response.Readers may recall I referenced mass timber in my op-ed as an industry that “must go the way of...

With Women's History Month concluded, we need to take the next step to guarantee gender equality in America. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) must be finally added to the U.S. Constitution to ensure that all Americans are treated fairly, regardless of...

FirstLight's operation of the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts is an ecological travesty of the first order. Turbines kill hundreds of millions of eggs, larvae, juvenile and adult fish, and other assorted...

We are locked in a war to protect the Connecticut River at Turners Falls, and I applaud the decision of the Connecticut River Conservancy’s refusal to sign the proposed agreement to relicense FirstLight’s Northfield and Turners Falls hydro projects....

I couldn’t disagree more with guest columnist Mike Leonard’s diatribe against Gov. Healey’s ambitious goals to preserve the commonwealth’s forested lands, starting with her campaign promise to invoke a logging moratorium in our public forests...

By DOMENIC POLI

BERNARDSTON — A Holyoke man has not been found since fleeing after the vehicle he was riding in was pulled over just north of Exit 28 on Interstate 91 northbound in Bernardston at around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.Lakeam A. Bennett, 27, provided false...