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Orange adopts $28.4M budget on Annual Town Meeting’s third night
Montague Police officer faces assault charges
Reps with state’s Federal Funds & Infrastructure Office speak to changing landscape
Orange RiverFest to mark 10th year
Organizers gearing up for 48th Yankee Engine-uity Show and Flea Market in Orange
Bridge funding, Historical Commission membership change approved in Erving
PHOTOS: Summer socializing
Real Estate Transactions: June 27, 2025
Aldi grocery store opens in Greenfield
GREENFIELD — More than 150 eager customers formed a line outside the city’s new Aldi grocery store in the moments before it opened Thursday morning.
Moldavite Dreams on the move: Business returning to Shelburne Falls roots
SHELBURNE FALLS — With a new name and a new location, Crystal Visions is returning to its roots.
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Franklin Tech student from Orange found shot, killed in NH
Montague Police officer faces assault charges
Community Action project to create all-in-one service center, food pantry in Greenfield faces funding hurdles
Moldavite Dreams on the move: Business returning to Shelburne Falls roots
Aldi grocery store opens in Greenfield
Real Estate Transactions: June 27, 2025
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Greenfield Middle School Honor Roll, Fourth Quarter
Regional Notebook: June 27, 2025
Of rapids and rainbows: LGBTQ outdoors enthusiasts enjoyed Pride Day on the River
Sports
Phillips takes over at Mahar, aims to build girls hoops powerhouse
Francis Phillips is excited to get going with the Mahar girls basketball team.
Bulletin Board: CCG’s Andy Lesenski qualifies for 2025 Massachusetts Amateur Public Links Championship
Minutemen reload: 11 newcomers set to suit up as UMass completes 2025-26 roster
UMass prospects set for 2025 NHL Draft spotlight in Los Angeles
Bulletin Board: Kajka, Magic take down Defenders in summer softball action
Opinion
My Turn: Our generation’s ‘rendezvous with destiny’
Americans today face an existential threat to our democracy and our rights, but not for the first time. In the past, Americans have transformed similar threats into opportunities to realize bold and ambitious new visions for America. We must now do the same.
Tom Tolg: Regime change
Kathe Geist: Foreign students
Tom Peabody: Trump fulfilling promises
Priscilla Caouette: In defense of public libraries
Your Daily Puzzles
An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."
A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.
Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.
Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.
Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
Business
Labor of love: Born to Birth doula service settles in at Orange Innovation Center
ORANGE — Felisha Foisy wants to help you, and your baby, out.
Permit approved for Greenfield cat cafe
Racial justice group raising money to support Mohawk Falafel and Shawarma owner
New Angel’s Edge Barbershop in Greenfield pays homage to late loved ones
Small businesses air complaints to Mass. lawmakers
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Arts & Life
Life’s a drag! A day in the life of producer and queen, Magnolia Masquerade
On most days, Andrew Curran, better known as his drag persona Magnolia Masquerade, is a whirlwind of activity, brainstorming ideas for future shows, creating the props that will bring them to life, running the rehearsals with other drag queens who fill out the cast — but he looks almost peaceful in the hours leading up to one of his performances. Starting around 2 p.m., Curran plops himself down in front of a tiny, well-lit mirror in his bedroom to prepare for Magnolia’s performance that evening at Last Ditch in Greenfield. Abba and a mix of show tunes plays quietly as a gentle breeze wafts in through his open window, sunlight streaming in the room.
A novel retirement plan: Jonathan Lash’s debut work of fiction, ‘What Death Revealed,’ draws from his time as an attorney in 1970s D.C.
Valley Bounty: Small but mighty market: Great Falls Farmers Market continues to grow deep community connections
Faith Matters: Human rights are bestowed by God: I have become a reluctant protestor before it’s too late to do anything
Sounds Local: West coast sound comes to western Mass: Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff plays the Shea Theater this FridayObituaries
Elizabeth Carlisle
Winchendon, MA - It is with great sadness that we announce the death at 97 years of Elizabeth Winning Carlisle, beloved mother, grandmother and great- grandmother, not to mention matriarch of the Carlisle family. Betsy lived for 59 ... remainder of obit for Elizabeth Carlisle
Helen L. Pearson
Greenfield, MA - Helen L. (Chagnon) Pearson, 88, passed away peacefully at home on June 15, 2025, with her children by her side. Born August 25, 1936, to Leah (Lebeau) and Valerien Chagnon, Helen was a lifelong resident of Turners Falls... remainder of obit for Helen L. Pearson
Robert Lively
Robert "Bob" Lively Bernardston, MA - Robert "Bob" E. Lively, of Bernardston, MA., passed away at home on June 19, 2025 after a period of failing health. He was born in Fresno, California, September 19, 1945, to Robert E. Lively Sr. and ... remainder of obit for Robert Lively
Phillip Tedesco III
Phillip "Tedd" Tedesco III Shelburne, MA - It is with a full heart and a sense of peace, that we mark the passing of Phillip "Tedd" Tedesco III of Shelburne Falls, MA on June 15, 2025 after a long illness. Tedd was born on August 28, 194... remainder of obit for Phillip Tedesco III
