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‘We are still here’: Cancer Connection offers phone, online support during difficult time

‘We are still here’: Cancer Connection offers phone, online support during difficult time

by Steve Pfarrer | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

As deadly as it has been, COVID-19 doesn’t have the historical track record of what has consistently been America’s second leading cause of death: cancer. Yet the novel coronavirus has certainly made matters more difficult for people struggling with cancer and for...
Letters to the Editor: A mayor that makes blood boil

Letters to the Editor: A mayor that makes blood boil

by From Our Readers | Aug 29, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers, News

A mayor that makes blood boil In response to “Sarno a No Show: As election looms, critics say Springfield’s mayor not there for all,” published August 22 – 28, 2019. The mayor led the charge and marched onto the Hampshire College campus to protest the decision...
Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

The Daily Hampshire Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers in America, printed its first pages in the summer of 1786. From the start, things were tense in the Western Mass communities it covered. The front page of the earliest surviving issue of the Gazette reports...
Journalists performing a public service are not the enemy

Journalists performing a public service are not the enemy

by Daily Hampshire Gazette Editorial Board | Aug 16, 2018 | Articles, News

Despite unprecedented attacks on the press by the president of the United States, journalists across the country — including here at the Daily Hampshire Gazette — continue our mission of informing a responsible citizenry and holding public officials and institutions...
Gazette/Advocate Pay Equity Meeting Postponed to Next Week

Gazette/Advocate Pay Equity Meeting Postponed to Next Week

by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 8, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter

A staff meeting on the topic of pay equity for women staff members has been postponed for a week, but staff members believe progress is being made. The meeting was scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m., but Gazette and Advocate publisher Michael Rifanburg wrote...
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