Gary Tartakov News Today

AMHERST — Members of a municipal committee that spearheaded Amherst’s creation of departments focused on promoting diversity and equity, and establishing an unarmed alternative to police, are being recognized with an annual award from Amherst...

AMHERST — Amherst’s historic Civil War marble plaques, on temporary display at the Bangs Community Center since summer 2021, should have a permanent home in the renovated and expanded Jones Library.As designs by Finegold Alexander Architects of Boston...

Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are not the Democrat’s great problem — we are.We, the big and little “D” democrats, who want to protect the existence of fair elections, that Manchin and Sinema are blocking in the Senate, who haven’t already begun...

The guest column by John Coster in the Dec 6 Gazette (“Logic matters when it comes to vaccine mandates”) was extremely disturbing. That the paper should publish such a piece is an extreme example of equivocation and very dangerous to the community....

AMHERST — Shortly after returning from Ames, Iowa, to be full-time Amherst residents again in 2009, Carlie and Gary Tartakov continued their pursuit of civil rights and social justice by speaking out for a Springfield man wrongly convicted of...