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By SHERYL HUNTER

In the 1970s, the California sound played a significant role in shaping mainstream music. Back then, you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing a song by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, or Linda Ronstadt.

TURNERS FALLS — The last of the focus groups the village has been holding, with help from consultant Ann Burke, about the rural downtown coordinator pilot project wrapped up on June 17, with members of the public engaging in a focus group to share their thoughts on what downtown Turners Falls could be.

Franklin County has unique 200-million-year-old features called Jurassic armored mud balls (“JAMBs”). Hopefully, many readers have heard about these. The Massachusetts Legislature is considering recognizing JAMBs as the official state “Sedimentary Structure,” in addition to over 50 other distinctly Massachusetts items such as Podokesaurus (state dinosaur), Dinosaur Footprints (state fossil), and Boston Crème (state donut).

I want to thank the following media outlets for making local sports special in Franklin County.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

TURNERS FALLS — As a final send-off, Franklin County Technical School’s Class of 2025 gave a $5,000 donation to the school’s new food pantry, which was established to meet an increase in student demand for food.

By CHRIS LARABEE

TURNERS FALLS — Several police departments were staged outside an apartment building Monday afternoon near the corner of Turners Falls Road and Avenue C as a crisis negotiation team worked to remove a man from the building after a reported domestic violence incident.

By JEFF LAJOIE

AMHERST — As the innings ticked by Saturday – seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th – and tension grew across Sortino Field, the opportunity arose for someone to etch their name into Franklin County softball lore on the sport’s biggest stage.

By CHRIS LARABEE

MONTAGUE CENTER — The Montague Center Fire Department has officially pinned its new chief.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Franklin County Technical School Committee reviewed eight design options on Wednesday for constructing a new school or renovating the existing building.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — To help Ismail Asaad, owner of the Mohawk Falafel and Shawarma food truck, put down roots in Franklin County, the community is banding together to support Asaad’s goal of finding a property where he can reside while also continuing his business.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — An administrative reorganization in the Gill-Montague Regional School District for the next school year, which includes cutting the family engagement coordinator role, was approved by the School Committee this week.

By MARC BURDICK

The week of May 18-24 marked the 51st Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week in the United States. This year's theme was We Care. For Everyone. As a 35-year career professional and paramedic in EMS I think it's important to recognize our profession and my colleagues. but also and perhaps more importantly acknowledge an opportunity to discuss that EMS in the U.S. and locally are in crisis.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The 41 graduates in the Class of 2025 at Turners Falls High School were described by Salutatorian Ella Guidaboni as being able to create, cultivate and connect — characteristics she, her peers and school administrators spoke to during their remarks at Friday’s commencement ceremony.

By DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — The man who bolstered the Montague Center Fire Department’s capabilities during a 35-year career and formed the Franklin County Firefighter Recruit Training Program died last month. He was 79.

ERVING — The Erving Public Library will host an all-ages puzzle swap on Sunday, June 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. Attendees don’t need to bring a puzzle in order to take a puzzle.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

TURNERS FALLS — An equipment malfunction caused FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Turners Falls dam to leak roughly 300 gallons of hydraulic fluid into the Connecticut River this week, marking the facility’s fourth such incident since 2021.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — A block party on Friday will mark the completion of wheatpaste murals, as well as the one-year anniversary of two downtown businesses.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — On a warm and partly sunny Thursday evening at Franklin County Technical School graduation, Superintendent Richard Martin reminded the Class of 2025 when they kayaked on a pond that formed on the lawn of the school on a cold and icy New England morning.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

TURNERS FALLS — Montague Police requested the assistance of Greenfield Police and officers assigned to the Franklin County Regional Special Response Team in an attempt to serve arrest warrants for two males — one man and one juvenile — on Wednesday in connection with a report of shots fired on Third Street near the Nouria gas station Monday morning.

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TURNERS FALLS — The Montague Police Department is asking anyone with information about the discharge of firearms on Third Street early Monday to reach out to the department.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Beginning this past Monday, Montague is enforcing a new parking restriction that makes it illegal to park a commercial vehicle for more than one hour between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. on all public ways, or in municipal parking lots.