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By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — After hearing from residents, tribal representatives and other officials on Monday, Selectboard members stated they do not intend to get involved in the discussion around changing the Native American statue at the Native and Himalayan...

Call me a masochist, but I have managed to read in succession Agnes Newton Keith’s account of her life in a Japanese prison camp and Wladyslaw [The Pianist] Szpilman’s account of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their stories have made me acutely aware that...

By CARL DOERNER

In the U.S., the term imperialism is used mainly to describe the behavior of others, like the British, but it has been alive here in the U.S. throughout our history.In February 1941, Time and Life magazines publisher Henry Luce launched criticism of...

I’ve been following with interest the fate of the statue outside the Native and Himalayan Views shop on Route 2 in Charlemont. I love kitschy folk art and found it humorous, but in reality a Cigar Store Indian as advertisement is not any more...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Local Indigenous representatives have further affirmed their desire to modify or remove the large statue of an American Indian outside the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop after hearing a suggestion to preserve it while installing...

“I used to think I needed some sort of insight or expertise, but it turns out I only need to string a bunch of words together” from Dilbert in the Recorder on Feb. 27, to me sums up what is happening to speech.We need to laugh at ourselves. The loss...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Jonathan Mirin and Godeliève Richard, artistic directors of Piti Theatre Co., have been taunted by the barn across from their house for years.“It’s hard to run a theater company and live across the street from a barn and not want to make...

Feb. 25: Music, storytelling show at HawlemontCHARLEMONT — Tyler Memorial Library and the Charlemont-Hawley Arts Council are offering a program with musician and storyteller John Porcino at Hawlemont Regional School on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m.The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — School and town officials have sent Gov. Maura Healey a letter urging her to fund an annual appropriation of $60 million directed entirely at rural and declining-enrollment schools.“Now is the time to act. The state has considerable...

How wonderful to wake to the news that our fearless leader just made a surprise visit to Ukraine. Of course that's much more important than going to our southern border, where undocumented immigrants are pouring over the border, Cartels are raping and...

By CARL DOERNER

On one hand, displayed in our country is an amusing rabble of Trump enthusiasts who, when interviewed, make claims about their idol no sane person would utter, e.g., “He won the election, is still president, and is running the country from his...

The Feb. 15 Recorder had two interesting articles that are related for those who know their Massachusetts history since at least 1978.That year a ballot question passed, and it was called Proposition 2½. While it is complicated in its execution, it...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — As the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts finish creating their proposed budgets ahead of a pair of public hearings, administrators have begun meeting with town officials to hear their thoughts.Superintendent Sheryl...

I was shocked and horrified by the report that someone in the Massachusetts Legislature has crafted a bill offering reduced sentences to prisoners of the state for donating their organs. Am I living in liberal, caring Massachusetts or China or India?...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Board of Health, Planning Board and Conservation Commission are drafting letters for the Selectboard about various health safety, environmental and permit violations they say are occurring at Stagecoach Auto Repair on Route...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Inspired by a petition article that came before Annual Town Meeting last year, the Charlemont Recall Provision Committee has nearly finished a draft of a recall election provision that will soon head to town counsel for review.“Having...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — After not meeting for many years, the Historical Commission came together this week to request to be part of the discussion about altering the Native American statue outside the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop on Route 2.“I...

By SHERRILL HOGEN

I was in Palestine last October. It had been three COVID years since I had seen my adoptive family there. I prepared for the trip by buying gifts for all eight of them: my “sister,” her husband, their six grown children, and innumerable grandchildren....

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Families from all over soaked up the thrill of gliding on skis and snowboards down the trails at Berkshire East Mountain Resort over the weekend in what, for many, is a yearly tradition.“This season has been surprisingly good despite the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — After a discussion with the creators of a petition to remove the large Native American statue from the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop on Route 2, the owner is seeking community input on possible new designs for the...