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By CHRIS LARABEE

MONTAGUE — The Community Health Center of Franklin County is getting ready to hit the road.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Annual Town Meeting voters on Tuesday must decide how to balance the budget after rejecting a Proposition 2½ override at the polls on Monday.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Voters flocked to the polls at 62 Cheney St. on Monday to have their say on a Proposition 2½ override.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town now owns the 1.06 acres at 16-36 West River St., the former site of an old cereal factory that three juveniles destroyed by arson three years ago.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — With a Proposition 2½ override vote coming to the ballot boxes on Monday, roughly 50 people gathered in Town Hall’s Ruth B. Smith Auditorium this week to voice their thoughts to the Selectboard on the budget proposal.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — Fixing a sinkhole that was caused by a broken clay sewer pipe on East Main Street closed a portion of the road from Cumberland Farms to Grove Street on Friday.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Felisha Foisy wants to help you, and your baby, out.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A Worcester man who struck Warwick’s police chief with a vehicle while fleeing a traffic stop last year will spend the next 2½ years in jail for charges related to the crime.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A suggestion to postpone a budget vote at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting until after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote at the ballot box caused some to speak against the idea, arguing that it was taking the decision out of voters’ hands.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An Orange man is being held without bail after allegedly confessing to stabbing his girlfriend during an argument.

By GREG VINE

ORANGE — The nationwide “No Kings Day” protests brought an estimated 600 people to Memorial Park over the weekend as residents came together to voice opposition to a range of policies under the Trump administration.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents with docks and other structures along the Lake Mattawa shoreline will have to pay a fee that goes toward the upkeep and betterment of the lake if the Selectboard’s proposed policy gets approved by town counsel.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ORANGE — An Orange resident is the subject of a Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ Law Enforcement investigation after the April removal of 147 animals on the property, many of which have since been adopted.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town administrator plans to suggest that voters at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting table voting on the town’s budget and revisit the matter after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Fairman Road is closed to vehicle and foot traffic so the Highway Department can fix a failed culvert.

By CHRIS LARABEE

As the “No Kings” movement prepares to take to the streets in all 50 states this weekend, activist groups in Franklin County have organized their own events.

NEW SALEM — Retired reporter and editor Richie Davis will read from his edited collections of Greenfield Recorder feature stories from around Franklin County and beyond at the New Salem Public Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 12.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Fisher Hill Elementary School students typically spend their days studying core subjects like science, math and writing. But on Monday they were able to carve out some time for lessons in weaving, blacksmithing, mosaics and jousting.