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GREENFIELD — The region’s behavioral health and wellness resources were on display last week as part of the 23rd Mental Health & Wellness Fair at Energy Park.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — Voters are set to consider a $4.6 million budget for fiscal year 2026, purchasing a $150,000 fire truck and adopting a short-term rental bylaw at Annual Town Meeting.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After less than a year serving as superintendent, Karin Patenaude announced her resignation on Friday afternoon, effective July 3.

By CHRIS LARABEE

BERNARDSTON — As the company seeks to optimize its operations and move production back to its flagship store, Kringle Candle listed its factory building for sale Friday.

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 MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — There is no threat to safety after a student was expelled for threatening the senior class at Mohawk Trail Regional School, according to Shelburne Police Chief Greg Bardwell.

By CHINANU OKOLI

Some local farmers hope bills to mitigate PFAS contamination in Massachusetts could safeguard their work and protect their lives.

By DOMENIC POLI

SHELBURNE — The Shelburne Falls Memorial Day Committee’s plan to use a rotating system to honor the four local men who were killed fighting in Vietnam will continue on Monday when Specialist Ronald E. Wissman is celebrated during Memorial Day festivities.

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 DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Orange Farmers Market is back at its old home, Butterfield Park.

WHATELY — The Whately Congregational Church’s food drive for veterans continues through the town’s Memorial Day celebration.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Franklin County Community Meals Program’s Hope Against Hunger Auction is back on Saturday, May 24, for the 21st year of raising money to support its community meals and food pantry services.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — For the fifth year in a row, three area advocacy groups will be standing out on the Sunderland Bridge to mark the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and keep the racial justice conversation alive in the region.

By EMILEE KLEIN

“Reset!”

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

The Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club celebrated its 100th anniversary at The Blue Rock Restaurant and Bar earlier this month. In twinkling dresses, faux feather boas and pearls, members danced to live music, sipped cocktails and listened to speeches from the club’s president, State Representative Natalie Blais, and retired NASA astronaut Col. Cady Coleman.

By DOMENIC POLI

At least 200 students and staff members passed through the second-annual Mahar Makerfaire last week and its organizer was so encouraged by the feedback he plans to open the event to the public next year.

By KELLY BROWN

My name is Kelly Brown, and I’ve had the pleasure of serving as the office administrator at the United Church of Bernardston (UCB) for the past 10 years. In that time, I’ve been continually impressed by what this church can accomplish through pure volunteerism — and how many lives have been touched because of it.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Math Interventionist Veronica Hirst says when she works with students at Hillcrest Elementary School, she wants to help them understand what makes the number five, a five.

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 — 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.