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By AMHAD ESFAHANI

In the first class on the first day of the first semester of my first year of college, wisdom itself spoke to me in the guise of a quirky, bald professor. Sociology 101, or so it would seem, typically sets the stall out for many a wannabe political theorist, but on this occasion, I was told that my generation would inherit the earth. Well … maybe not in so many words, but here’s the short version.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — A new Opioid Use and Prevention Commission is tasked with finding the best ways to spend the city’s opioid settlement funds and inform the city on issues related to opioid use, overdose and addiction prevention.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — City councilors approved Mayor Ginny Desorgher’s $67.9 million fiscal year 2026 budget Wednesday night, increasing the School Department budget by $254 in a largely symbolic act to ensure it was level-funded from the current fiscal year.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The suspect accused of a home invasion and barricading himself in a home on Elm Street for six hours last Friday was held without bail Thursday morning after video and audio recordings of the alleged standoff were shown to Judge William Mazanec III.

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Garden Club’s 28th annual Plant Extravaganza is coming to the John Zon Community Center on Saturday, May 24, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m, rain or shine.

I was shocked seeing half a dozen fully-outfitted SWAT team members pointing automatic weapons and moving on a local home in the Recorder. There’d been a break-in with an alertly responding occupant quickly escaping; stating they’d seen a weapon. That lengthy vigil ended with tear gas and the suspect in custody.

By PHILLIP RINGWOOD

At a time when our country faces increasing inequality, growing instability, and the weakening of social ties, it’s easy to despair at the scale of the challenges. But for those who believe in the power of collective effort, AmeriCorps offers a solution for progress.

By SHERYL HUNTER

Elvis may have left the building, but he will soon return when Greenfield native Travis Ledoyt brings his Elvis Presley tribute act back to the Greenfield High School on Saturday, May 24, at 7 p.m.

8:58 a.m. — Report of an unwanted person at the homeless shelter on Arch Place. Male got into his vehicle and left. Clinical & Support Options was advised to seek a no-trespass notice via the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

By AL NORMAN

A year ago, state Sen. Jo Comerford sent a letter to the Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, regarding energy infrastructure siting and permitting.

John Brown, speaking at his trial for treason in fomenting a “slave rebellion” in 1859: “I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The man accused of barricading himself in an Elm Street home on Friday morning, resulting in a six-hour standoff with police, pleaded not guilty to home invasion and assault charges in Greenfield District Court on Monday.

By MARY WESTERVELT

The May 3 Recorder’s front-page article, “Beekeepers report 1.6M colony loss,” reports a worrisome decline in honey bee colonies. However, the article gives the erroneous impression that bee colony loss equals pollinator loss. This is not the case.

Thank you for your article on the Biz-M-Power grant recipients by reporter Madison Schofield in the May 16 Recorder (“Local businesses get funding boost”). Biz-M-Power is a great program run through MassDevelopment’s Growth Capital Division. Applicants featured were required to work with one of several organizations statewide, such as the Franklin County CDC, to submit applications and set up a crowdfunding webpage. We were proud to work with most of the businesses featured in the story who were able to raise funds to grow their operations. So many great success stories!

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — As Greenfield Community College’s 308 graduates step out into a tumultuous world, they were urged to stay grounded in their values by a commencement speaker who one time left the world.

By MARGUERITE MORRIS WILLIS

All of my life I have loved fiction as learning and teaching tools, starting with Nancy Drew. Within that genre of books I am grateful that my granddaughter insisted that I read Harry Potter. In fact now we have a book club of two who are reading a fantasy series, Book 1 in the Poppy War series by R. F. Kuang.

The May 16 article titled “Supreme Court could uphold birthright citizenship” raised an issue unrelated to the case itself, which was, when or if federal district court judges can issue injunctions for the entire country to pause implementation of presidential executive orders until the cases are settled at the highest level.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Thirty students who achieved their high school equivalency credentials were honored Thursday, as they were urged to continue their learning journey.

6:34 a.m. — Theft of a 2004 Honda Civic reported on Devens Street. Report issued.

By JON HUER

Nowadays, you ought to feel like Rip Van Winkle: If you had gone to sleep on Trump’s Inauguration Day and woke up today, you wouldn’t recognize your own America you see. What used to be a slow, boring continental drift in political affairs is now an avalanche every day.