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By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — Collaboration is the name of the business game in Franklin County, and the Chamber of Commerce’s monthly breakfast Friday morning highlighted some community partners that can help businesses of any stage and type get their feet underneath...
We were a small group of eight, just one of six groups spread around the Parish Hall at Second Congregational Church in Greenfield participating in a Death Cafe. An energetic hum of voices filled the large space.My group was sitting in the parlor when...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — A small portion of Main Street will be closed on Saturday for Franklin County’s YMCA’s participation in a national initiative to improve the well-being of kids and families. Healthy Kids Day has been celebrated by YMCAs across the country...
By KELSEY WENTLING
While a lot can happen in 10 years, FirstLight is proposing to do very little in the next decade under their recently submitted Flows and Fish Passage Settlement Agreement.Ten years from now, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — Three of a dozen people arrested in 2021 in connection with a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas Tuesday regarding their involvement in the operation and another had her case...
GREENFIELD — Franklin County’s YMCA has launched its annual fundraising campaign, with a goal of raising $250,000 to help reduce financial barriers to Y membership and youth programming participation. Phase 1 of the campaign, focusing on individual...
By LIESEL NYGARD
GREENFIELD — Following a series of pandemic-related delays, organizers of Extravaganja are finally able to bring their event to Greenfield this weekend.Extravaganja, a rally to support widespread legalization and social acceptance of marijuana, will...
Discovery Center holding Jurassic Armored Mud Ball Festival TURNERS FALLS — The Great Falls Discovery Center will host an exploration of the formation and discovery of Jurassic armored mud balls, a rare, region-specific geological formation, on...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SHELBURNE — The final three members of the Shelburne Housing Authority were honored Tuesday afternoon, as the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority celebrated the merging of the two agencies.Franklin County Regional Housing &...
Around the country, the Y is often referred to as a “gym and swim.”But there’s so much more to our Y than folks realize. From exercise to mental well-being, from gymnastics class to teen leadership, from preschool to preventive health, the Y doesn’t...
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — The state opted Monday to drop its case against a Level 3 sex offender and former fugitive to spare the named victim the trauma of taking the witness stand in a trial.Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz, 42, formerly of western Massachusetts, has been...
By CHRIS LARABEE
When you get older or retire, life can slow down a little bit. For some, that’s perfectly OK, but others may need an outlet to get out into the community.As the Pioneer Valley continues to readjust to post-pandemic life, one of those outlets, the...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — In a society “loath to talk about death,” one group is hoping to create an environment where others feel safe to do so. “We fear what we don’t know and then we ‘other’ it and we demonize it,” said Greenfield resident Becca King, an...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge deemed an abutter had standing to appeal the special permit for three proposed solar arrays on Pine Meadow Road in Northfield, setting up a future trial.In a flurry of decisions, Judge Karen Goodwin...
FreshmenHigh Honors: Angelina Alonso, Ashlynn Andrews, Erin Banister Potter, Miguel Bartolon, Shawn Beckwith, Tristan Bliss, Samuel Bodenstein, Teagan Boliski, Camden Bonnett, Elizabeth Boudreau, Mason Brunette, Rocco Buccaroni, Dani Chagnon, Ashlyn...
By DOMENIC POLI
NEW SALEM — Through a new offering at the New Salem Public Library, the Greenfield-based Franklin County Community Meals Program hopes to provide residents with nourishment while destigmatizing food insecurity.Anyone is welcome to stop by the library...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — With its executive director leaving to join the national organization, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County has tapped its Hampden County counterpart to fill the interim role.Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampden County Executive...
By BELLA LEVAVI
TURNERS FALLS — Constituents had the opportunity to pick the brains of their local legislators on Saturday during a coffee social organized by the League of Women Voters of Franklin County.State Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, state Rep. Susannah...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — After five years at the helm during which she saw the organization work through a pandemic and set records in enrollment, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County Executive Director Jennifer Webster is stepping down to accept a role at...
By DANIEL A. BROWN
A myth has surfaced over the past year about the war in Ukraine, embraced and expressed by certain members of local and national peace groups. According to them, Vladimir Putin is really a nice guy who was reluctantly coerced into invading his...
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