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By RAZVAN SIBII

In my column last month (tinyurl.com/4u9hrthz), I painted an admittedly dystopian picture of the U.S.-Mexico border in the relatively near future: a no-man’s land where American border agents use lethal force to repulse loosely organized groups of...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

AMHERST — For the second time in its history, the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band will perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade next year. Band members celebrated Band Director Timothy Todd Anderson’s announcement during the...

By MARIA JOSÉ BOTELHO

Accessing political news has become a national activity and, in some cases, a form of entertainment, or what political scientist Eitan Hersh calls “political hobbyism.” In his 2020 book, Hersh claims that one-third of Americans spend over two hours...

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

Rapid access to hot water is a hallmark of modern society and has made our lives a lot easier. With the turn of a faucet handle, we have hot showers as well as water to wash our dishes and clean our clothes.Now, the Biden Administration is positioning...

By JENNY ADAMS

I looked for it under a tree. But in the end, I found it near the bushes lining the edge of his condominium yard. I wish I could say that it was hidden. It was not. It stood out, a solid brown mass of poop in plain sight.Unlike my dad’s very visible...

By RAZVAN SIBII

Donald Trump didn’t back down often when he was president. There were very few instances when the American people — and, most importantly, his conservative constituency — were so appalled at his egregious deeds or utterances that he actually felt the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Editor’s note: This is the second of four articles from the Western Massachusetts Solar Forum series taking place in September.AMHERST — At the site of the old Mount Tom Station coal-fired power plant stands around 17,000 solar panels generating...

By THONDUP TSERING

The recent announcement by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken of the imposition of visa restrictions on officials from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of Tibetan children is a welcome step in the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — A new center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst aims to harness both Indigenous and Western environmental science to tackle issues relating to climate change, food insecurity and archaeological preservation.The center, officially...

A sore hip and a sore elbow. That’s what I have as souvenirs from the heat exhaustion and fall I suffered at UMass that fiercely hot afternoon. But more salient is the immediate assistance and kindness I had from three UMass students. After...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Three years of monitoring and tracking moon patterns, and finding just the right place to photograph Earth’s satellite rising behind the University of Massachusetts Amherst, paid off for a Northampton resident, who recently captured the...

Recently, the Recorder ran a column by John Bos titled “Questions for Trump supporters” [Aug. 26] in which he asked if anyone could tell him why they would vote for Donald Trump. I would ask the same thing about Joe Biden and the Democrats. It seems...

By JULIE SPENCER-ROBINSON

The Thrive Act is an important bill before the state Legislature that would eliminate passing the MCAS as a graduation requirement and establish a commission to recommend “a more authentic and accurate system for assessing students, schools, and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — Moving triplets into three separate dorms all in one day is no easy task, but the Lawn family did just that on Thursday, when first-year students were welcomed to the University of Massachusetts on a sunny and breezy move-in day.“We’re...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — It’s fitting that new University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes, a “Star Wars” fan, invoked a quote from one of the iconic franchise’s main characters to conclude remarks at the end of his first Community Breakfast on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — At Webster Hall on the University of Massachusetts campus, students last fall covered over the men’s and women’s designations for bathrooms with green tape in an effort to create more accessible gender-neutral bathrooms, at least on a...

By RAZVAN SIBII

Last month, I wrote about a new immigration program, called the Welcome Corps, which allows regular Americans to sponsor the relocation of refugees into their neighborhoods (https://shorturl.at/hvGZ5). The program, which the Biden administration calls...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Playwright Annie Baker’s feature film directorial debut, featuring location shoots in Amherst, Hadley and Leverett in summer 2022, will be shown at the 61st annual New York City Film Festival this fall.The festival, running from Sept. 29 to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Greenfield Savings Bank will close two underperforming satellite branches in downtown Northampton and Amherst this fall, while at the same time renovating other branches in those municipalities to provide additional services to...

By FRIENDS OF CONTE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

This summer’s epic flooding up and down the Connecticut River watershed, from the hillsides of Vermont to the low-lying farmland and neighborhoods in Massachusetts and Connecticut, is simply astonishing. Gurgling little brooks, once just a few inches...