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I love my spaceship. It’s so fragile and I wish to leave it better than I received it. What say you? This all could end in a minute and we are so oblivious to it.Why are we fighting and not helping? We think we are creators but all we do is destroy....

I enjoyed Dan Manka’s humorous Dec. 27 letter about Lincoln and Trump having both stood for the American Way. That was very funny!Brian PrescottTurners Falls

Talk focusing on canal history TURNERS FALLS — The Great Falls Discovery Center will host “Going Against the Flow: The History of Montague’s Navigational Canal” on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 2 to 3 p.m.Participants will learn about the original canal...

By DOMENIC POLI

BERNARDSTON — The Farm Table restaurant on the Kringle Candle Co. property is set to reopen under new management at the end of May.Restaurateur Ashley Evans, who grew up in Turners Falls, was home from Florida visiting family last year when she...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Welding students at Franklin County Technical School and beyond will soon be joining more than just pieces of steel with a half-million-dollar investment that is set to fuse the real and the imaginary.Come next school year, the school...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — After around five years of advocacy, Franklin County Technical School’s aviation program is ready for takeoff within the next two years with help from a $4.2 million state grant.Superintendent Rick Martin accepted the award, which was...

Freshmen First Honors: Jackson Cogswell, Ethan Eichorn, Elsee Galvez Martin, Clara Guidaboni, Cameron Johnson, Michaela Klempner-Siano, Nathaniel Kolakoski, Noah Kolodziej, Curtis Kretchmar, Vaughn LaValley, Estes Lemerise-Reinking, Caleb Lincoln,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man was sentenced Thursday to 12 to 14 years in prison for aggravated rape and abuse of a child.Jeffery Fleury, 55, was found guilty by a Franklin County Superior Court jury last month and Judge Michael Callan issued the...

By MARY BYRNE

Less than three years after Baystate Franklin Medical Center acquired the medical offices on Burnham Street in Turners Falls, Baystate plans to consolidate the practice this fall with its offices on Sanderson Street in Greenfield.The consolidated...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — The ninth annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival will feature around twice as many Native American tribes as last year’s gathering, with “at least 30” slated to be represented this weekend, according to event coordinator Diane...

FreshmenHigh Honors: Devon Brown, Joshua Carey, John Carmichael, Owen Cody, Gianna DiSciullo, Nicolas Drake, Kylee Gamache, Kristine Given, Alexis Guimond-Swan, Caleb Hall, Owen Heilman, Trent Holst, Ryan Kokoszyna, Colby Leete, Kathryn Lengieza,...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — After receiving a major state grant, Franklin County Technical School will begin holding night classes that prioritize helping unemployed and underemployed adult students this fall.The program is made possible by Massachusetts’ Career...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — The family of Turners Falls resident Dylan Lapointe is collecting donations in the wake of his death, which resulted from a car that collapsed onto him due to the failure of a jack stand Tuesday morning.According to his mother, Debi...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Gill resident Rufus Thomas, 40, is facing charges in both Greenfield District Court and Franklin County Superior Court resulting from his alleged trafficking of various drugs, including about 730 bags of fentanyl. Thomas, who had a...

By DOMENIC POLI

SHIRLEY — Gregory Martino, the former Greenfield man sentenced to life imprisonment for what turned out to be the first of four unrelated domestic violence killings in Montague over a 20-month period in the late 1980s, died of cardiac arrest on July...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Christopher Barnes, the new principal of Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, hopes his breadth of experience can serve as the foundation for a long-lasting relationship with the local school district.After...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — As the world celebrates the return of community events, Santo Taco looks to contribute with a new Mexican food truck.Since originally meeting in Montréal, Canada, Santo Taco co-owners Ivette Mateos and Eric Dew have been looking to...

By DOM POLI

GREENFIELD — A Turners Falls man who was arrested after allegedly beating a man for five hours while interrogating him over alleged stolen marijuana pleaded not guilty Thursday and is being held without the right to bail pending an Aug. 6...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — A marijuana grower is aiming to move into the former Southworth building, bringing new business to the location for the first time since the paper company abruptly closed in August 2017.The grower, a new company called Hydroflower,...

By MAX MARCUS

MONTAGUE — As the historical namesake of Turners Falls has again become a point of controversy, the Montague Historical Commission hopes to provide an education on what really happened and who was involved in the incident that the name memorializes.It...