Opinion
Appreciate column on Ukraine
We would like to commend Dr. DavideGottsegen for his insightful column, “As war rolls on, support for Ukraine must continue,” in the Jan. 20 Recorder. He eloquently and correctly condenses the issues, outlines the over 1,000 year history of Ukraine...
Wants aggressive action by City Council
Having refused to accept responsibility for racism in their promotion decisions, Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. and Mayor RoxannWedegartner are now fighting their war with the City Council at the expense of the safety of the people of Greenfield,...
My Turn: Surprise and alarm over Northfield SoulFest
By JAMIE YOST and CHRISTOPHER SIKES
After more than two months reviewing Moody Center’s plans for the three-day SoulFest Christian Music Festival, the Northfield Select Board issued a strongly-worded letter to the President of the Moody Center. The five members of the Select Board...
Tom’s beloved Catamount
Few knew or loved Catamount more than Tom (“Monsai”) Maloney. Aside from growing up on the southern-most extremity of the mountain, it was Tom’s playground from the time he could ambulate. Starting with bicycles and advancing to an old VW Beetle, to...
Wants update from the border
I see that Daniel Brown is still contributing columns to the Recorder. He used to be so insightful about the human disaster it was at the border during President Trump’s term in office since he now lives near the border and sees it firsthand. It would...
Bernardston Senior Center
If you are looking for a fun and entertaining place to spend your time, come to the Bernardston Senior Center. We have an amazing director, Jennifer Reynolds, who is always coming up with new ideas and is friendly and welcomes new members. We have...
Appreciates report on police staffing
Thank you to the Recorder for the article on Monday about local police staffing for the overnight 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift and getting this information out to the community. Currently Deerfield, Montague, Orange and Greenfield provide their own police...
Where’s the innovation?
I am curious as to why electric grid infrastructure has to be seen as such a stumbling block on the road to solarization, when independent home and business solar arrays can perform stand-alone generation quite capably.Speaking of the road, why aren’t...
Questions use of community center
This is in response to the letter ” Grateful for Senior Center and its dedicated staff,” (Recorder, Jan. 20). Aside from thinking it was only submitted because of the recent negative publicity around a certain staff member who fired a dedicated and...
Checks and balances at stake in SCOTUS case
The Moore v. Harper case before the Supreme Court could protect or destroy checks and balances. I want my daughter and her generation to come into their adulthood in a country where their votes cannot be extinguished by extremist state legislatures...
City Council and police staffing
Police Chief Robert Haigh’s decision to make some sort of reduction in Greenfield police staffing was inevitable. His decision is a direct result from the City Council’s vote last May 2022 to cut the police budget by $425,000. The vote was uniformed,...
Views on war can vary
David Gottsegen’s column “As war rolls on, support for Ukraine must continue,” in the Recorder Jan. 20 edition inspires this letter.He calls the horrible Russian attack on Ukraine “unprovoked,” the adjective regularly repeated in the mainstream press....
Lawsuit raised legitimate concerns about New Salem Museum
In the Recorder’s Jan. 20 article on the Land Court’s ruling nullifying the special permit issued to the New Salem Museum (“Ruling upends permit for museum”), the museum’s owners had ample space to articulate their vision for the museum and the...
My Turn: 8 billion of us! — population growth and climate change
By RUSS VERNON-JONES
Sometime on Nov. 15, 2022, according to demographers, a baby was born somewhere in the world who brought the number of humans living on the planet to eight billion. That’s a lot of us!How does population growth relate to our efforts to solve the...
Devastating news
I just read that there may no longer be a night shift on the Greenfield Police Department because of budgetary constraints. $400,00 removed by the City Council so they could make a “statement” to the mayor and chief of police. At who’s cost? The...
Bleak comfort
I applaud Daniel Brown for his forthright column “When global warming stares you in the face,” (Recorder, Jan. 19). I agree that “saving the Earth” is narcissistic but also, I think, hubristic. We do not begin to honor our interdependent relationship...
‘The most important person in Franklin County’
When I became executive director of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) in 2000, I didn’t know a whole lot about Franklin County. I lived in Sunderland then and owned Annie’s Garden Store on Rt. 116 in Amherst. But I appreciated right...
Our forests need help
Kate Lindroos’ column “In the fight against logging, conspiracy takes the (profitable) reins,” (Gazette, Jan. 18) points out how the International Panel on Climate Change acknowledges that forest management can help mitigate climate-related risks to...
New bill on abortion
Here’s how evil Democrats are. After the House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Jan. 11, “Born-Alive Act: Pelosi, Schumer melt down after new bill requires care for babies born during failed abortion,” (foxnews.com, Jan. 12)....
Appreciate column on assessments
Thanks to Al Norman for his revealing column “The Assessors Puzzle Box,” (Recorder, Jan. 18). We were shocked to discover we are paying more in real estate taxes for our three-bedroom ranch home than Patriot Care, the marijuana dispensary on Legion...
