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By MARTHA RULLMAN

By ELIZABETH LAREAU WHITCOMB

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — The McCollum Hockey Arena at Northfield Mount Hermon School has been closed and a Friday girls varsity hockey game has been moved due to a fire that broke out in one of the four locker rooms Wednesday night.

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

NORTHFIELD — With a four-day lineup of festivities, the first-ever Winter Weekend Festival is making the most of the fresh snow, including through its featured event: a snowman contest.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Pioneer Valley Regional School administrators said they are deepening their commitment to investing in curriculum, staff compensation and facilities in the fiscal year 2026 budget presentation last week.

By LIESEL NYGARD

Two Franklin County towns are each receiving a $15,000 grant as part of a program that trains town officials on how to engage in public art projects most effectively.

By JOHN ADAMS

BERNARDSTON — The United Church of Bernardston’s next Second Saturday Roast Beef Supper will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, with seatings at 5 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. Suppers will continue on the second Saturday of each month through April.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NORTHFIELD — The Northfield Fire Department has found a used rescue truck in New York to replace its 1986 GMC rescue truck.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has issued a draft decision approving a water quality certification for FirstLight Hydro Generating Co., marking the latest required step in FirstLight’s relicensing process through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

By LIESEL NYGARD

NORTHFIELD — The town is working to enhance its municipal website by upgrading its software, which hasn’t been done in nearly 10 years.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NORTHFIELD — Selectboard members signed two letters of support this week as the town looks to make up the funding gap preventing the Schell Bridge reconstruction project from moving forward.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Northfield Mount Hermon School announced Thursday that it received a $50 million bequest from the late John Mitchell, representing the largest donation received by NMH and one of the largest given to an independent school in the country.

By JUDY WAGNER

Winter can be a time of clarity. The colors of flowers, shrubs and grasses are stripped down to earth tones. Trees have lost their camouflaging leaves, baring the dark branches highlighted against chill blue or frost-colored skies ripe with unshed snow. The branch patterns are bold, or lacy, sometimes tangled with strangling vine designs. Broken branches become apparent; the squirrels’ nests, often precarious at the tips of limbs, are exposed.

Hip hip hooray! President Donald Trump is back in the White House where he belongs, and, as expected, liberals everywhere are freaking out. Maybe I’ll put on my MAGA hat when I go to the supermarket. Yeah, I think I will. It’s time to ruffle some feathers.

BERNARDSTON — The Bernardston Kiwanis Club’s annual chicken pot pie dinner fundraising series is returning this weekend, with proceeds from the first dinner going toward the Pioneer Valley Regional School’s athletic booster programs.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — While the Winchester High School Selection Committee only moved Hinsdale High School to the next stage in its process of finding an anchor school for high schoolers from Winchester, New Hampshire, the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is planning on staying in the mix as a choice school.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

As the organization explores a new assessment model amid regionalization, the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget for Northfield EMS is seeing an increase in the contributions paid by the four communities it serves.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NORTHFIELD — After voters shot down a proposal for a public safety complex in May 2023 due to concerns about the burden on taxpayers and wetlands encroachment, the Emergency Services Facility Committee is evaluating plans for a facility on the same property that would only house the Fire Department.