OPINION
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A few years ago, there was a brief period of time during which I left journalism as a full-time vocation. While I still...
So, state legislators, I’m asking the question: Why are you so reluctant to let us in the room where it happens?
Of course, the responsibilities we all have to our family, friends, community, and our work will always take a place of precedence in our lives. However, those should not always trump the responsibility to ourselves and our own well-being.
Food, housing (both cost and inventory) and heating costs are among basic living expenses putting a squeeze on middle class families. Meanwhile, school districts and departments are threatening significant reductions and funding for roads has remained stagnant while inflation has not.
This is all a very longwinded way of introducing myself as the new executive editor for Reminder Publishing. It’s hard to explain what I plan to do without first explaining where I’ve been. I suppose a much simpler way to put it is I’m a news man and I always have been, whether I knew it or not.
As I write this column, my family and I are in the final days of preparation for our trip to Walt Disney World. In the...
By now we’ve all seen the Saturday Night Live bit. We’ve seen the national news article shared on social media forums...
A few years ago, there was a brief period of time during which I left journalism as a full-time vocation. While I still...
So, state legislators, I’m asking the question: Why are you so reluctant to let us in the room where it happens?
Back when the NFL Wild Card playoff round wrapped up several weeks ago, I saw an article noting that the oldest...
For me, this move really represents a homecoming, as my entire life has been spent between Springfield, Hampden and Wilbraham.
Normally I don’t find myself becoming invested in many of the ballot measures that are proposed to Massachusetts voters come election season. This year however, several of the questions caught my eye.
On June 20, the Northampton City Council voted down the fiscal year 2025 budget after three councilors voted against it because it did not include a requested 14% budget increase for the schools, as approved by the School Committee at a meeting in April. The 14% budget increase would have ensured a level-service budget and no cuts to positions.
As I was going to bed on March 7, I came across a Tik Tok that I thought was somebody trolling, claiming that legendary...
Twenty-four years as the head coach of the New England Patriots. Six Super Bowl titles. Nine AFC Championship victories. Seventeen AFC East titles. Bill Belichick is no longer the head coach of the New England Patriots.
Back when the NFL Wild Card playoff round wrapped up several weeks ago, I saw an article noting that the oldest...
For me, this move really represents a homecoming, as my entire life has been spent between Springfield, Hampden and Wilbraham.
Since starting at The Reminder, I dreamed of one day having my own opinion column in the paper. Well, it looks like that day is finally here and I could not be more excited!
Since starting at The Reminder, I dreamed of one day having my own opinion column in the paper. Well, it looks like that day is finally here and I could not be more excited!
Since starting at The Reminder, I dreamed of one day having my own opinion column in the paper. Well, it looks like that day is finally here and I could not be more excited!
The Friends of Hampden Senior Citizens would like to thank everybody for the wonderful donations that came in for our Holiday Shop til you Drop Sale and all of you who did Shop our Holiday Sale – you helped raise over $1,350 for the benefit of our Senior Center; we are so grateful.
In recent months, citizen concerns surrounding Eversource’s gas line repairs and proposed rate hikes have raised valid...
The recent opinion column in The Reminder by Editor Chris Maza addressed the Massachusetts ballot Question 1 approved by...
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says: Few budgetary concepts generate as much unintended confusion and...
As Longmeadow moves closer to a funding vote later this year on its new middle school, we are still waiting and...
Dan Zwirko, vice chair of the Longmeadow Select Board, announced his candidacy for reelection to the Select Board on...
The past three editions of the Reminder contained letters from Longmeadow residents about the shameful treatment two...
This is in regards to “HWRSD pleads case for more ed funds.” I would like to remind everyone that this is the very same school department that IMMEDIATELY after giving us not one, not two, but three override votes they wouldn’t even initially close Thornton Burgess to save money.
The Friends of Hampden Senior Citizens would like to thank everybody for the wonderful donations that came in for our Holiday Shop til you Drop Sale and all of you who did Shop our Holiday Sale – you helped raise over $1,350 for the benefit of our Senior Center; we are so grateful.
In recent months, citizen concerns surrounding Eversource’s gas line repairs and proposed rate hikes have raised valid...
