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By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — The towns of Buckland and Shelburne are lowering their tax rates for fiscal year 2025. Buckland residents can expect a rate of $16.94 per $1,000 valuation and Shelburne residents will see a rate of $12.84. Buckland’s rate will be 62...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School students may have a new math class to take next fall as the school is considering offering an Integrated Math program that would combine elements of the geometry and algebra into one course, rather than two separate classes.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — There’s a new nonprofit in town.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — For one night only, Mohawk Trail Regional School will host a performance of “And Then There Was One,” a murder mystery following 10 individuals invited to a mansion on a small island, who then die one by one until only one person is left.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Editor’s note: To mark the start of a new year, the Greenfield Recorder is publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2025. Details about projects in the western part of the county were...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — With the towns of Shelburne and Buckland shifting the focus of their Community Development Block Grants to housing, the West County Food Pantry operated by Community Action Pioneer Valley will be facing a $50,000 budget deficit and...

Shelburne employees can anticipate 3% raise in FY26 SHELBURNE — As department heads begin preparing their budgets for fiscal year 2026, town employees can anticipate a salary increase of 3%. The Selectboard has issued its budget directive, telling...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Shelburne Police Department is investigating the theft and destruction of two vehicles from Shelburne Falls that occurred earlier this week. Between 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23, and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 24, a black Toyota SUV...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Fundraising efforts are underway to replace Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School’s three playgrounds.Principal Hayley Gilmore said the current playground structures have run the course of their lifespan.“There’s a lot of broken...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — A Shelburne Falls playwright is developing a play about the life of an emergency management coordinator during a global pandemic, and is looking for audience feedback.Two free readings of “How to Fold a Fitted Sheet and Other...

Sen. Mark’s staff holding office hoursBUCKLAND — State Sen. Paul Mark’s staff will hold office hours on Thursday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to noon at Buckland Town Hall, 17 State St.Residents of any of the 57 municipalities in the Berkshire, Hampden,...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 By April 1865 the city of Charleston, South Carolina was in ruins. While the Confederates still clung to Fort Sumpter, eight months of bombardment by Union guns had turned the city into a shadow of its former glory.Much of the white population of the...

Seventh Grade High Honors: Jayden Baez, Autumn Belanger, Katelyn Bozek, Lillian Clark, Sallie Flynn, Augustus Foote, Elliot Franetovich, Sienna Franklin, Maddan Garcia, Hope Gilbert, Elizabeth Gilmore, Raelyn Hildreth, Carl Jernstrom, Grayson Johnson,...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — After years of planning, the West County Senior Services District is nearing the finish line and will officially begin providing services to elderly residents of Ashfield, Buckland and Shelburne on July 1. With the existing...

By MARA MELLITS

Fifth-generation farmer Melissa Griffin’s life is anything but traditional.She operates Clessons River Farm in Buckland with her husband, Adam Griffin. She is also a classical trumpet player who studied trumpet performance at the University of...

Info session to discuss ADUsROWE — Residents who are curious about how a new state law regarding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) may impact the town and their properties are invited to attend an informational meeting with the Planning Board at Rowe...

By DOMENIC POLI

Though participation in veterans service organizations has waned considerably in the decades following World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, group leaders in Franklin County say membership remains strong and the door is open to any...

Buckland reviewing progress toward Open Space and Recreation Plan goals BUCKLAND — The Open Space and Recreation Committee will meet at Town Hall, 17 State St., on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. to review the town’s progress on the goals and tasks...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

LEYDEN — A frequently overflowing culvert on West Leyden Road is set to be replaced with help from a $126,600 grant from the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration. The grant will cover engineering work for the replacement project through...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 Ever since I moved to Buckland eight years ago, I have been trying to track down the historic and abandoned cemeteries that can tell us so much about life and death in the previous centuries of European occupation in these hills. One that has eluded...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Firefighters from six departments worked to extinguish a fire at 18 South St. on Tuesday evening after it burned a resident’s shed to rubble and spread to the railroad tracks behind his home.Homeowner Dana McNay said he had put his...