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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

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.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — With a new name and a new location, Crystal Visions is returning to its roots.

I am all for regime change! The megalomaniac, terrorist, must be replaced. Hopefully Vance will do better.

Rarely have I read such an uninformed letter in the Greenfield Recorder as the one I read today “Library funding cuts ‘not the end of the world,’” [Recorder, Jan. 25]. Especially the writer’s assertion that libraries are “fine for people too stingy to buy their own books ...”

The current Democratic Party has become what our Founding Fathers warned us against: a political party so “party” driven that it becomes antithetical to the liberties which we enjoy as Americans. The Democratic Party’s soulless drive for complete political hegemony is exemplified by its silent approval and culpability in every act of violence and disruption in our streets by Antifa, and BLM.

In Ben Clarke’s June 17 column, he asks, “Any regrets?” in voting for Donald J. Trump. I say none whatsoever. Trump derangement syndrome has been ongoing since Trump descended the golden escalator, and it’s getting worse by the day. The Democratic Party was hijacked by the far left, is rudderless, and lacking leadership, while President Trump is gaining momentum. The writer should be more concerned about the Democratic Party rather than bashing his former one.

High Honors: Oliver Audet, Chazz Badillo, Leah Batiste, Phineas Brown, Elijah Cheney, Nyexziel Colon, Wesley Darling, Ian Degen, Gianna Haselton, Anmol Kanojia, Clara Kelsey, Rylan McIver, Gracie Medina, Lila Nietsche, Conor O’Connell, Mahir Patel, Cecily Paterno, Joe Proietti, Jake Pulizari, Samantha Rider, Greyson Roberts, Esme Sautter, Kadence Spring, Agnesse Suther, Elias Tripp, Amelia Waldron and Vasher Westfall.

By DOROTHEA MELNICOFF

One of the treasures of the Connecticut River, as we learned there are many, is Annette Spaulding, master diver and water world explorer. Affectionately known to Connecticut River Defenders as the “little mermaid” of especially this heritage river, as designated in 1998.

I nearly skipped reading a full-page story in the June 23 Recorder because the gigantic all-caps header, “MAGA AND THE SINGLE GIRL,” followed by the subheader, “Conservative women attend conference to discuss careers, marriage, children” initially put me off. I figured the article was replete with tropes and tiresome, divisive rhetoric, none of which I personally need more of these days. I forced myself to read it, though, because I’m trying to broaden my perspectives and better understand our struggling human family.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — In the wake of federal funding cuts, Community Action Pioneer Valley’s plan to renovate the site of the former Barn Grocery Store at 95 River St. and convert it into an all-in-one service center and food pantry now faces significant hurdles.

GREENFIELD — With a program of speakers and music on Saturday, the Immigrant Rights Task Force of Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution hopes to help people learn more about the challenges facing the immigrant community and invite residents to join in the effort to support them.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Officials expressed frustration Monday over procedural delays and complications while reviewing the results of the most recent groundwater testing in the area surrounding the former Lunt Silversmiths site that “strongly confirm” the contaminants are spreading.

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Police Department invites residents to the Greenfield Public Library Periodicals Lounge for coffee, pastries and conversation on Monday, July 7, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

By MIK MULLER

As it happens every year, the Greenfield Recreation Department hosts the annual July 4 fireworks; this event is funded by donations and fundraising, not by the city budget. The cost is about $18,000. Our fundraising events this year have included indoor mini-golf in April and a Cornhole Tournament in May. We are grateful for the generous sponsorship from local businesses, and participation from the community. Our June fundraiser is put on by the Friends of Greenfield Recreation.

Thank you columnist Tolly M. Jones for your important My Turn,” Free-ish since 1865” [Recorder, June 18]. So much truth is spoken in this piece, it should be required reading for all white people. This country was built on genocide and slavery, yet this actual truth is not taught. Racism by erasure.

By LUKE MACANNUCO

GREENFIELD — Though Japanese knotweed towers over Greenfield resident Wisty Rorabacher at the Green River Swimming and Recreation Area, the scale of the invasive plant species is not a source of intimidation for Rorabacher and her group, the Floodplain Forest Restoration Project.

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Every positive change — every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness — involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. ~ Dan Millman

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Green River Festival returned to the Franklin County Fairgrounds for the 39th year, kicking off the summer and showcasing improvements from last year by emphasizing all the Pioneer Valley has to offer in talent — and beer.

Franklin County has unique 200-million-year-old features called Jurassic armored mud balls (“JAMBs”). Hopefully, many readers have heard about these. The Massachusetts Legislature is considering recognizing JAMBs as the official state “Sedimentary Structure,” in addition to over 50 other distinctly Massachusetts items such as Podokesaurus (state dinosaur), Dinosaur Footprints (state fossil), and Boston Crème (state donut).