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Without solar revenue, Turners Falls airport faces $122K shortfall
01-18-2024 4:04 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

TURNERS FALLS — With anticipated revenue from a solar project not yet in play, the Turners Falls Municipal Airport is facing a $122,000 budget shortfall for fiscal year 2024, according to Airport Manager Bryan Camden. The airport had planned to have...


AG’s office dismisses Greenfield Open Meeting Law complaint
01-18-2024 2:43 PM

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The Attorney General’s Office has declined to review an Open Meeting Law complaint filed against the Planning Board late last year on the basis that the meeting was not subject to Open Meeting Law, nor was the complaint filed on time. In...


Montague and Erving Notebook: Jan. 19, 2024
01-18-2024 1:36 PM

Roast pork supper canceled MONTAGUE — The First Congregational Church of Montague’s roast pork supper, originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 20, has been canceled.Ongoing programs offered at Erving Senior & Community Center ERVING — The following...


Shelburne Falls businesses band together in call for Gaza cease-fire
01-18-2024 1:26 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Village business owners have banded together to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to the Israel-Hamas war. “We as humans have to stand up and say we all deserve to live,” said Bridge Street Bazaar co-owner Mohammad Yaseen....


Turners Falls micro-roastery aims to ‘bring people together’ over coffee
01-18-2024 12:34 PM

By LIESEL NYGARD

TURNERS FALLS — During the pandemic, Ericka Almeida felt claustrophobic. She and her husband were working from home in 2020 and it was difficult to see their friends. But when Almeida had the opportunity to socialize, it was always over coffee. “Some...


Turners Falls apartment fire displaces 8 residents
01-18-2024 11:19 AM

By MAX BOWEN

TURNERS FALLS — Eight residents have been displaced following a second-alarm fire Wednesday night at 12 H St.According to the Turners Falls Fire Department, none of the residents of the two-apartment building were hurt, though one firefighter...


UMass basketball: Philip Alston’s last-second three-point play lifts Loyola Chicago past Minutemen 79-78
01-17-2024 9:49 PM

By GARRETT COTE

Josh Cohen stepped to the line with his UMass men’s basketball team tied against Loyola Chicago on Wednesday night. The Minutemen were trying to avoid consecutive losses for the first time this season, and despite free throws being the weakest link in...


Earl Lorden, 1942 Turners Falls baseball team to be inducted into Western Mass. Baseball Hall of Fame
01-17-2024 6:37 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The 1942 Turners Falls High School baseball team, and its head coach, continue to be recognized for their accomplishments. The Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame announced its 11th Hall of Fame class this week and the 1942 team was selected...


Greenfield city councilors criticize police raises as ‘tone-deaf’ following discrimination verdict
01-17-2024 6:08 PM

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — City councilors are calling the $33,000-plus raises negotiated late last year between the former mayor and top police officers as a “tone-deaf” attempt at a “cash grab.”“The idea that the leadership should be getting this kind of raise is...


Local child and family care providers to see a 14-34% reimbursement boost
01-17-2024 4:56 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

Local child and family care providers are hailing the Healey-Driscoll administration’s recent boost of reimbursement rates for child care services as a “welcome change.” Last week the Board of Early Education and Care approved Gov. Maura Healey’s...


My Turn: Farms as farms, forests as forests
01-17-2024 3:54 PM

By GLORIA KEGELES

The flooding this past summer pulled back the curtain on the vulnerability of our local farmland resources and viability. Responding to what was deemed a crisis, the community, local lawmakers and the governor’s office swiftly responded with more than...


Jim Bates: Utopia meets reality
01-17-2024 3:53 PM

I’m so happy I could cry. Have you ever heard that song?Well, local activists are crying in Wendell over a proposed battery storage project. I seem to recall activists in Wendell holding a funeral ritual and praying over tree stumps after they were...


Richard D. Little: Time to celebrate county’s armored mud balls
01-17-2024 3:53 PM

Dear readers: you don’t need a geology course to visualize dinosaurs! Two hundred million years ago, the Connecticut River Valley was indeed “Jurassic Park” in a great rift valley similar to the famous ones of east Africa today. Podokesaurus, our new...


Sara Cohen: Oct. 7 rape reports weren’t ‘fake news’
01-17-2024 3:53 PM

I am writing in response to Pat Hynes’ recent letter claiming that the reports of rape and sexual violence during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were “fake news” [“Why feminists are silent about Oct. 7,” Recorder, Jan. 10]. She cited her sources. We...


Laurie Boosahda: Our taxes are funding the war in Gaza
01-17-2024 3:53 PM

I urge every tax-paying adult to contact your senator and representative and insist that the U.S. government stop sending funding and weapons to the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Congress is poised to vote on a package of $14.3 billion of...


Maura Morrison: Franklin County’s demographics
01-17-2024 3:53 PM

I read the Dec. 29 My Turn column by Marguerite Willis, “Repackaged old, failed education ideas still fail” and was disappointed that the writer begins with a statement that is incorrect. She states that she lives in the “poorest and whitest county in...


PHOTOS: Getting crafty
01-17-2024 3:35 PM

ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School students displayed more than 30 projects in the library on Wednesday during a Makerfaire.Projects ranged from epoxy resin tables to stained glass lanterns, with students using the various skills they were...


Second try for road funding succeeds in Deerfield
01-17-2024 2:53 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — After falling short the first time, residents on Tuesday signaled their support at the ballot box in authorizing up to $5 million in borrowing for road repairs.After a close rejection in December, voters at a special town election approved...


With coyotes in midst of mating season, pet owners urged to be cautious
01-17-2024 1:12 PM

By MADDIE FABIAN

As coyotes become more active during their mating season, spanning January through March, pet owners are urged to stay vigilant.The eastern coyote — which resembles a medium-size dog, but has pointed ears and denser fur — can be found in almost every...


Greenfield Police Logs: Dec. 27 to Jan. 9, 2024
01-17-2024 12:25 PM

Wednesday, Dec. 27 4:54 a.m. — Unwanted person reported at M&T Bank on Federal Street.9:39 a.m. — Suspicious activity reported on Osgood Street.1:27 p.m. — Forgery/fraud reported at The Weldon apartments on High Street.7:32 p.m. — Zachariah Butynski,...

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