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By THE REV. RANDY CALVO
This coming Wednesday is Abraham Lincoln’s birth anniversary. In his Second Inaugural Address, as the President of a divided Union, he realized that people of faith were praying to the same God for different outcomes. Lincoln was humble enough to dare not equate God’s will with that of either side, saying, “The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved an additional $100,000 for its fire panel replacement project this week while also awarding a $470,030 bid to Sterling-based DMH Electric.
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Ahead of the March public hearing, Frontier Regional School administrators pitched their fiscal year 2026 draft budget to the full School Committee Tuesday evening.
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — After receiving numerous letters against proposed graduation requirements, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee Tuesday evening tabled a measure that would require students to still pass the MCAS or a similar standardized test to graduate.
I am a senior living in a senior housing building in Sunderland. Neither PVTA nor FRTA provide on-demand van service in Sunderland.
By CHRIS LARABEE
Civil rights activists, war tax refusers, supporters of local agriculture and advocates of simple living Wally and Juanita Nelson left an outsized impact during their decades in Franklin County.
By CHRIS LARABEE
With help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR), businesses across Franklin County will use grant money to increase their capacity and expand the local food supply chain.
By CHRIS LARABEE
For the second year in a row, the Sunderland Human Rights Task Force’s weekly standout is expanding for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
More than 30 groups come together this Saturday, Jan. 18, for a free event called “Our Projects for 2025, Envisioning the World We Want,” at the Second Congregational Church, just off the Greenfield Common.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A 500-acre section of forested land connected to Mount Toby in Sunderland, west of Route 63, is being returned to the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band as a gift from W.D. Cowls Inc.
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Frontier Regional School administrators pitched their revised graduation requirement proposal to the School Committee this week, as schools around the state prepare for the fallout of Question 2.
Deerfield residents invited to Tree House public feedback session DEERFIELD — The town is inviting residents to a public feedback session on Tree House Brewing Co.In the wake of several complaints about concert noise toward the end of the 2024 season,...
By CHRIS LARABEE
Editor’s note: To mark the start of a new year, the Greenfield Recorder is publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2025. When the calendar flipped to 2024, Conway and Deerfield were...
Staff Report
SUNDERLAND — The Sunderland Men’s Club, South County Senior Center and numerous volunteers came together on Christmas at the First Congregational Church of Sunderland to prepare and deliver more than 110 free meals to seniors in Deerfield, Sunderland...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SUNDERLAND — In what is becoming an annual tradition for community service, the South County Senior Center and the Sunderland Men’s Club are once again coming together to offer Christmas Day meals to older adults in Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SUNDERLAND — In December 1989, one of the coldest on record in the region, John Sackrey was in Conway with a small team building an addition onto a home.That addition, for an associate working with Berkshire Design Group, kicked off a decades-long...
What a wonderful article regarding the holiday lights atop Mount Sugarloaf. [“Mt. Sugarloaf’s holiday lights a community treasure, help needed to keep 75-year tradition alive,” Recorder, Dec. 9, 2023].The dedicated people doing this for years wish to...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — With the scope and price of Frontier Regional School’s fire alarm replacement project changing, requests are coming before each of the four community’s selectboards to allocate more money.The district previously allocated $200,000 of...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
Leading a roughly 100-person crowd across a two-day, 43-mile trek from Springfield to Greenfield, NEPM radio host Christopher “Monte” Belmonte raised more than $572,000 to end hunger during the 15th annual March for the Food Bank.Belmonte, dressed as...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SUNDERLAND — As the town’s Energy Committee continues to explore potential transfer station locations in town, the executive director of the Franklin County Solid Waste Management District suggested a different route: Why not share with a neighbor?In...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — With more than 800 farms and hundreds and thousands of workers providing food to the region and beyond, farming is more than just a way of life here in Franklin County.To celebrate what Franklin County Chamber of Commerce Executive...
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