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Faith Matters: Invoking God in politics: Learning from Lincoln’s humility
02-07-2025 10:39 AM

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.”

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With extra $100K allocation, Frontier awards bid for fire panel replacement
02-13-2025 11:29 AM

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.


Frontier pitches level-service budget of $13.29M
02-13-2025 11:08 AM

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.


Frontier School Committee tables vote on standardized testing graduation requirement
02-12-2025 1:17 PM

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.


Julie Gerstman: Why is Sunderland the only place with no on-demand van service?
02-04-2025 4:55 PM

I am a senior living in a senior housing building in Sunderland. Neither PVTA nor FRTA provide on-demand van service in Sunderland.


‘Eyes on Freedom’: Audio documentary on Wally and Juanita Nelson will premiere at the Sunderland Public Library next week
01-31-2025 9:47 AM

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.


For Franklin County farmers, $434K in grants allows for a ‘big leap forward’ in increasing capacity
01-22-2025 2:43 PM

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.


Martin Luther King Jr. Day events planned in Sunderland, Greenfield
01-16-2025 11:44 AM

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.


Susan Triolo: Envisioning a brighter world
01-15-2025 9:50 PM

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.


500 acres of Sunderland forestland returned to Nipmuc tribe by W.D. Cowls
01-13-2025 11:54 AM

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.


Frontier administration pitches revised graduation requirements
01-10-2025 4:05 PM

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.


South County Notebook: Jan. 8, 2025
01-07-2025 4:12 PM

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,...


Public safety building, municipal campus top of mind for South County officials in 2025
01-05-2025 2:01 PM

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...


PHOTOS: Third year of Christmas meal distribution feeds more than 110 seniors
12-31-2024 8:20 AM

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...


Christmas Day meals coming to South County seniors
12-18-2024 7:01 AM

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...


Sackrey Construction Co. of Sunderland celebrating 35 years in business
12-12-2024 10:31 AM

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...


Carol A. Crafts: Keep Mount Sugarloaf lights tradition going strong
11-29-2024 10:31 AM

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...


Replacement of Frontier fire alarm system needs more funding
11-27-2024 11:35 AM

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...


‘We all feel good inside’: March for the Food Bank with Monte Belmonte raises $572K in 15th year
11-26-2024 6:30 PM

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...


Sunderland to explore sharing transfer station with neighbors
11-18-2024 11:34 AM

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...


Chamber breakfast celebrates farming, agritourism as ‘critical’ economic driver
11-15-2024 3:52 PM

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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