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By LORA WONDOLOWSKI and JOHN GARRETT

By GEORGE KRIEBEL

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — As students in the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts prepare to return to the classroom on Wednesday, Aug. 27, they can expect to see a few new faces and detailed guidelines on acceptable behavior outlined in codes of conduct.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — After a week of construction, months of fundraising and decades of waiting, Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School students will have a new playground to enjoy beginning Tuesday, Aug. 26.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Claudia Chamberlain had an unexpected guest over for breakfast recently.

GREENFIELD — The Community Preservation Committee is seeking proposals for projects requesting Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding for fiscal year 2026.

There’s a new country music duo in the world today. Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu are playing the Trumpster like a couple of very accomplished Ozark fiddlers. In his ignorant glory “Captain Bone Spur” is crooning a tune for a Nobel Peace Prize. What Exoneration Don doesn’t realize is that he’s adding a few new verses to Sgt. Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction.” Trump + Peace Prize, what a joke.

It seems we could me missing a great opportunity to address multiple issues: The fees collected from cannabis growers could be put in a fund to pay for municipal solar power. In reference to the Aug. 9 article, “Cannibis Impact Fees: Where Are They?” it seems the view of how a growing facility impacts a community is limited. Indoor cultivation is one of the most energy intensive agricultural activities and some recent analyses suggest that it contributes to 1% of US total emissions!

We live in a world of constant motion. Significant social and political changes swirl like ocean riptides, and fighting against them may be just as exhausting, deadly, and fruitless as struggling against an undertow. For me, sports offer a tiny sandbar to plant my feet and catch my breath as I ignore all its confusing changes, and the larger ones as well.

By Thomas Johnston

David Kennedy and Jamie Crocker were the winners in the Jon Hunt Senior Two Ball at Country Club of Greenfield on Friday, carding a score of 64. Dennis Rabtor and Charlie Vanasse shot the low net (62).

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Doctors John Romano and Rachel Anderson met as medical students at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester in 2018. Seven years later, the now married couple is sticking around Greenfield as family medicine physicians.

Good morning!Less than five months ago the UMass hockey team lost by a goal to Western Michigan at the regional finals in Fargo, N.D., to end with a respectable 21-14-5 record. Almost a year to the day earlier, UMass lost in double overtime to Denver at the NCAA regionals in Springfield. Their record was a nearly identical 20-14-3.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — In an effort to reverse City Council’s July decision to declare the parking lot at 53 Hope St. as surplus and to seek a developer for the site, Franklin County Register of Probate John Merrigan has completed his petition to have voters weigh in on the matter when casting their ballots in November.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Police have identified a suspect in the December theft of more than $100,000 from the “Money Tree” ATM owned by Greenfield Savings Bank.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The School Committee considered raising the pay rate for some of its lower-paid positions on Wednesday after members explained that the School Department is having trouble filling vacant positions across the school system.

By LUKE MACANNUCO

TURNERS FALLS — Don’t expect any flora at the new garden that is in the works behind Sheffield Elementary School.

By CLAIRE MORENON 

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Holy Name of Jesus Parish will host a takeout chicken barbecue on Sunday, Aug. 24, from noon to 2 p.m. at 15 Thayer St.

SHELBURNE FALLS — With the nearly $3.2 million repair project at the Bridge of Flowers complete and the bridge reopened, the community is invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate on Monday, Aug. 18, at 2 p.m. near Buckland Town Hall.

By LUKE MACANNUCO

GREENFIELD — Before July, Greenfield resident Hannah Heineman “really never thought” she would own a home.