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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Franklin County Community Meals Program closed on the former Mike’s Place property on Jan. 31 and plans to move the Orange Food Pantry into its new home in mid-May.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The School Committee at Franklin County Technical voted uanimously to signal its opposition to a proposed weighted lottery admissions system for vocational schools across the state.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Southbridge man was sentenced on Friday to time served and two years’ probation after changing his plea on four charges related to a 2023 incident in which a man was stabbed in Orange before the assailants led police on a high-speed chase that ended in Belchertown.

By ALEX CHAISSON

GREENFIELD — Taking inspiration from a Home and Craft Show held by different organizers more than a decade ago, the Franklin County Agricultural Society is bringing the event back to the Franklin County Fairgrounds on Saturday and Sunday.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A peer review for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed location off Plain Road East has found no “fatal flaws” that would pose a risk to public health or safety, according to the engineer, but there are some details regarding traffic and noise that need to be addressed.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Mental health officials, school representatives and nonprofit leaders from across Franklin County recently came together to discuss youth mental health, and brainstorm ideas on future programs and collaborations to support youth mental health services.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Two Franklin County Technical School seniors recently took a deep dive into their underwater welding education.

The Franklin County Solid Waste Management District is collaborating with the towns of Leverett, Montague, Northfield and Warwick next month to hold special recycling collections for blocky Styrofoam packing material.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast Friday morning meant business — specifically, family business.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Franklin County Technical School English teacher Jay Butynski describes himself as “a goofball by nature,” a quality he doesn’t hide from students who have come to find his classroom a safe and engaging place.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — With plans to have the former Zion Korean Church, now owned by Franklin County’s YMCA, moved back to its hometown of Barre, contractors are working to meticulously dismantle the historic building piece by piece.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town has a new pharmacy after two months without one.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Interim Franklin County Sheriff Lori M. Streeter has announced plans to run for sheriff and seek the Democratic nomination on the November 2026 ballot.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A couple was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to animal cruelty in Franklin County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — A former Mohawk Trail Regional School ski coach and Rowe park manager is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a student from 2016 to 2019.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — More than 50,000 meals will be served to western Massachusetts residents in need this year through a $450,000 grant administered by the Franklin County Community Development Corporation.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — Town officials across western Franklin County are calling for a Department of Public Utilities investigation into National Grid after nearly 1,500 households were left without power for nearly four days in February.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

DEERFIELD — Following a public hearing attended by more than 50 residents Thursday evening, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter will appear before the Zoning Board of Appeals again next month, as it seeks a special permit to open a dog shelter near Plain Road East.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Medicaid false claims case against two personal care attendants who worked in South Deerfield has been continued without a finding for two years, during which time the defendants will be on probation and required to pay restitution.