As Freelance based photojournalist over 23 years. I like pitching articles/ photos to many publications not just localy . I enjoy writing and taken photos and enjoy reading othor writers storys.I like reading many publications including recorder, the montague reporter. I enjoy reading interesting stories about local History including I enjoy wild life photos in the recorder. read more

I have a local delivery subscription to The Recorder. It's a great source of information about local events, although I find 80% of the contents uninteresting (to me). It's stuffed with circulars for local supermarkets, but I can always just ignore them. The My Turn column and the Letters to the Editor contain an interesting range of views -- primarily liberal but also a few very conservative. There are more misspellings than I would expect in a newspaper. My favorite was a reference to the "Ferrous Wheel" at the state fair. I thought that was quite ironic. read more

I'm a native of eastern Massachusetts, and my standard for newspapers is set by the Boston Globe. By the standard of a multiple-Pulitzer Prize winning paper with international reach, the Recorder doesn't measure up. But my wife convinced me to look at the Recorder with a different eye: not as a massive daily full of international news, but as a local, weekly paper ... and at that, the Recorder excels. This is a paper where a local poetry competition, or the county fair, or the town's winter festival will routinely appear above the fold. Local businesses get ads and writeups, and I know from my workplace that the Recorder often gives very low cost space to charitable organizations in the area. The sports section doesn't lead off with the big city Boston or New York teams, but with local high school sports. Even when state or regional issues are on the front page, they have a local spin: how does the transportation bill passing the state legislature affect Greenfield, particularly? Truth be told ... this is a "weekly" county newspaper ... that's published six days a week. How can you beat that for coverage? read more

Coming originally from New York City I was always disappointed with the quality of local papers when I moved to small towns. When I moved to Greenfield I was more than pleasantly surprised at the quality of the RECORDER and that it is published 6 days a week despite serving the poorest county in the state. It has an intelligent editorial page, has up to the minute local news, has at least two or three pages of national and state news, covers local and state sports, has free classifieds up to $500 items, local naturalist columns and great photographers. What more can you ask for. I read it daily! read more

Have you noticed? Most newspapers are 75 cents! When you shell out that much cash, five days a week, you better be getting what you paid for. I live in Franklin County but the paper I get (Hamp Gaz) is not geared to that county where the Recorder is. But in the last year, I've noticed that the Noho paper that I've gotten for the last 20 years has, as with other things in out area, gotten rather wishy washy. The content is not what it used to be especially when it pertains to area towns. The recorder is a very robust paper with a very strong foundation, and seems to be getting stronger every day. It covers the material I'm interested in and the towns that I work and live in. It has, in a word, a more "real world" feel to it. I read it at least 3 times a week and will continue to do so. read more

I have been a subscriber for many years. Overall I am satisfied with the paper, overlooking the liberal bias. However, since they took over the Athol Daily News recently, their morning delivery in the Orange area has been a big disappointment. I leave for work at 6:45 AM and, unlike in the past, usually find the Recorder mailbox empty. I then stop off at the local news stand to purchase a copy (that I had already paid for in my subscription). I take it to work and read it on my morning break, as I do not want to read yesterday's news when I come home in the evening. The news stand owner says I am not alone in this, and their papers have also been coming much later than normal. She says they now just throw the bundle on the parking lot and drive off. I have repeatedly complained to the circulation dept., receiving promises from them to fix the issue, but the paper continues to be delivered late. This has been going on for 5 weeks now, and seems like their management is not interested in fixing this. They extended my subscription for two weeks, but when it runs out shortly I will not likely renew it. I give two stars (content OK, but their delivery woes drag down the overall rating.) read more

The Recorder is not worth 2 cents never mind 75 cents. This is nothing but a local gossip column. If you don't below to the 'in-crowd' nothing good is reported. Most the 'writers' for this 'rag' have correspondence degrees from a mail order house. What a joke! read more