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Pioneer’s Innovation Career Pathways environmental science program shows results
06-25-2025 3:33 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — A revitalized greenhouse and garden, rehabilitation of the school’s cross-country trail and work with the Franklin Land Trust are all highlights of Pioneer Valley Regional School’s nascent Innovation Career Pathways environmental science program.

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Group effort drives pavilion construction at Northfield Elementary School
07-11-2025 3:52 PM

By LUKE MACANNUCO

NORTHFIELD — Outside Northfield Elementary School, Parent-Teacher Organization volunteer Cheryl George watched as a Graves Concrete truck poured the concrete foundation for the school’s new outdoor pavilion.


Pioneer seeks new director of finance
07-11-2025 3:16 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The search is underway for a new director of finance and operations at the Pioneer Valley Regional School District.


North County Notebook: July 1, 2025
06-30-2025 2:43 PM

NORTHFIELD – Seniors who are more than 60 years old and own their own home in Northfield are eligible to submit an application to take part in the Senior Tax Work-Off Program starting July 1.


Pioneer Valley Regional School Honor Roll, Fourth Quarter
06-28-2025 4:28 PM

Highest Honor: Aaron Archer, Layla Coffin, Amber Drossart, Emma Goulding, Samuel Lawler, Evangeline Lewis, Avery McKinley, Deveney Pillsbury, Gianna Shattuck, Magnolia Sheridan, Hannah Skorupa, Aza Thompson, Amy VanDoren, Gabrielle Warriner Cardin and Brooke Welcome.


Columnist Judy Wagner: The songs of summer
06-23-2025 11:23 AM

By JUDY WAGNER

June first, it snowed. The cottonwood trees were sending their white fluffy seed puffs down like large, slow-drifting snowflakes. In places they settled on puddles or coated newly raked garden beds with a light covering that did not melt.


New ways to see: Northfield artist shares gifts despite impending blindness
06-20-2025 10:03 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Faced with total vision loss in the near future, many people might understandably respond with despair, fear, anger, or all three. Yet Virginia “Jinx” Hastings, 80, faces such loss in inspiring ways. After undergoing more than a dozen procedures for glaucoma, Hastings learned that she’s exhausted surgical solutions; her response was to create art, which is currently on display through July at the Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield.


Northfield EMS to install temporary building to meet staff housing needs amid 24/7 coverage
06-18-2025 12:58 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — As the new four-town inter-municipal agreement officially kicks into effect at the turn of the fiscal year, Northfield EMS will be installing a temporary structure at its 41 Main St. space to accommodate staff.


Deborah Potee: Superior Greenfield Public Schools leader
06-18-2025 12:11 PM

For anyone who was lucky enough to work with or under the leadership of departing Greenfield Public Schools Superintendent Karin Patenaude, the loss of her from this district is incalculable. Her high standards, work ethic, love for students and deep experience from being a beloved English teacher and highly respected administrator endeared her to staff, students and families in the district. To watch her talk to a quiet teen, a curious fourth grader, a distressed parent or a questioning teacher and see her treat each with understanding, kindness, respect and always an encouraging smile, is to see the very best that public education has to offer. Seen as a "teacher's teacher" by the educators at Greenfield High School, the spontaneous standing ovation that she received by the 900 people in attendance after her words of encouragement for the graduating class on May 31 spoke volumes of how beloved she is as our leader. Karin Patenaude set a standard that will be hard to fill, she will missed and I am grateful to have worked for her.


Cat dies in Northfield house fire
06-13-2025 2:38 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

NORTHFIELD — One cat perished in a house fire on Main Street Thursday night, according to Fire Chief Floyd “Skip” Dunnell III.


My Turn: Invisible connections of the natural world
06-10-2025 2:58 PM

By MARGOT FLECK

Cruelty, unabashed and relentless, is part of our inescapable reality these days. We exist in a media-dominated environment and many of us have become addicted to witnessing the horror and chaos of humans bludgeoning each other with either weapons of war or words.


36 Pioneer grads lauded for discipline, persistence
06-06-2025 9:53 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

NORTHFIELD — Before the 36 Pioneer Valley Regional School Class of 2025 graduates were handed their diplomas, their class advisor Brian Campbell challenged them to “show up” for one another as they take the first step into their adult lives.


Robert Dickerman: Ask the Pope
05-30-2025 9:23 AM

Thomas Aquinas College invited the president of The Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, to speak at its 2025 commencement on May 24. Roberts is the “architect of Project 2025.” I believe that Roberts’ values, and the objectives of his Project 2025, are antithetical to those of the Catholic Church. I think the college is a good school with a challenging curriculum. The students that I’ve met have been polite, respectful, and inquisitive. I hope that Kevin Roberts’ invitation was an aberration, and not an indication of a shift in policy. I suspect that some students — and the pope — might agree.


Protesters oppose Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts as Thomas Aquinas College commencement speaker in Northfield
05-28-2025 3:48 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

NORTHFIELD – Around 80 protesters gathered outside Thomas Aquinas College Saturday in opposition to the school’s selection of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts as its 2025 commencement speaker.


Columnist Judy Wagner: The lions of spring
05-27-2025 7:00 AM

By JUDY WAGNER

“What a blue sky!” so says my husband as we pause in our garden prep work. “Looks pretty grey to me,” I counter, looking straight west under the brim of my garden cap and noting the piling, darkening clouds on the horizon. Then I tilt my head to look up: magnificent depthless blue sky! Yet again this garden place teaches: just a slight change of perspective can alter everything.


Growth of tourism, recreation focus of chamber luncheon
05-19-2025 10:51 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — At Northfield Golf Course Friday morning, the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s monthly lunch was all about how tourism and recreation can drive the local economy.


PHOTO: May flowers at Northfield Elementary School
05-13-2025 3:01 PM


Elizabeth Lareau Whitcomb: Violence affects us all, knows no party lines
05-10-2025 10:21 PM

I am writing in response to the recent letter to the editor about Democrats and gang members [”Democrats and gang members,” April 24]. I agree with the writer that it is sad that no Democrats stood up to acknowledge the profound grief this woman is experiencing over the murder of her daughter. But I feel compelled to point out that the Republicans have time and again been uncaring towards victims of gun violence, in particular the mass shootings that have taken place in so many of our schools. I would also like to point out that it has not been proven that any of the men sent to the prison in El Salvador were gang members, indeed that there is no evidence that they are, regardless of what President Donald Trump and ICE officials have been saying. The fact that these men were denied due process means that no connection to gangs will ever be proven.


North County Notebook: May 9, 2025
05-08-2025 1:45 PM

WARWICK — In what marks the third of five events to be presented in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Dan Thomas Trio will perform at Town Hall, 12 Athol Road, on Saturday, May 10, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.


Proposal for new six-town regional school district heads to DESE for approval
05-07-2025 4:11 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

With its regional agreement sent off to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a technical review, the Six Town Regionalization Planning Board is expecting to bring its new school district proposal to voters in the fall.


Campbell claims Selectboard seat over Brassor in Northfield election
05-07-2025 1:51 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

NORTHFIELD — Assistant Town Clerk Dan Campbell will soon take his seat on the Selectboard after winning the sole contested position in this year’s town election by 60 votes, besting his opponent Barbara Brassor.

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