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As a 43-year-old stay-at-home mother of three and the first in my family to graduate high school, pursuing a college degree has been both a personal dream and a powerful act of transformation. For years, I put my children first, guiding them through life with love, sacrifice, and hope that they will have opportunities I never had. But somewhere along the way, I realized that my own dreams still mattered and that it wasn’t too late to pursue them. And coming from parents who did not graduate from high school, let alone go to college, I had no guidance in doing so for myself. I was left to figure life out while my friends’ parents took them on trips to visit campuses across the country.

The Trump administration has been slashing funding for a broad array of “wasteful” government programs in the name of “efficiency.” Among the victims are funding for research grants. Science is probably “under the radar” for most people, but the irrational, destructive cuts are affecting the advancement of medicine, technology and environmental science; achievements we depend on which have been developed by private businesses applying basic research discoveries funded by taxpayer supported institutions, such as the National Institutes of Health.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

The French are getting ready to celebrate their big national holiday, 14 Juillet (July 14, known internationally as Bastille Day). So are Francophiles around the world.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MILLERS FALLS — Continuing to build on a groundswell of support for Greenfield Fire Capt. John Whitney and his family following a brain cancer diagnosis, Element Brewing Co. is looking to raise money and awareness through a “Thankful Thursday” fundraising event on Thursday, July 10.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Three local entrepreneurs recently took the floor at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center, splitting $10,000 in the final installment of an annual pitch competition.

By LUKE MACANNUCO

The painted gaze of Littlefox, a Native American woman from Minneapolis, follows viewers who enter The LAVA Center to view the arts venue’s current exhibit, “Portraits in RED: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People” by artist and activist Nayana LaFond.

By LUKE MACANNUCO

SHELBURNE FALLS — Sunny blue skies greeted attendees of the annual Fourth of July parade and chicken barbecue on Friday.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — After more than a decade of planning, the West County Senior Services District has officially come to fruition.

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

The fight continues as the battle rages. In my lifetime, I have never seen nor experienced such bifurcation in politics and between and within our political “parties.” It all seems and feels unending, and who knows what (bad) news lurks just around the corner, pregnant and waiting for the release of the next news cycle? Am I the only one out there who feels exhausted and exasperated? The never-ending element of all this “news” has begun to feel like being forced to watch — and live — in that iconic Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. Over and over we go, doomed in a way to recapitulate all that happened yesterday again today until, and if, we learn and integrate our lessons into our lives.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — After 25 years running Sidehill Farm, founders Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein are moooving on.

ROWE — The town of Rowe will hold its annual Summer Social on Sunday, June 13, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Pelham Lake Park.

GREENFIELD — Just Roots community farm at 43 Glenbrook Drive will offer “The Care & Keeping of Flowers,” a workshop led by Ferron Dooley Fairchild of Fernie Floral, on Saturday, July 19, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — The city was bursting with pride and fireworks this weekend as hundreds gathered at Beacon Field for the annual Independence Day celebration

Remember when we used to worry about the uninsured? Of course you do! It was only 15 years ago and that nice Black man passed a bill that succeeded in reducing the percentage of Americans without health insurance to less than 10%!

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After announcing in March that the city’s new Fire Station used 250% more energy than anticipated, Director of Energy and Sustainability Carole Collins said teams have identified the problem and are working to solve it.

2:26 p.m. — Franklin County Technical School principal reports a male party on a bicycle has shown up twice on campus today. He is talking “jibberish” and is raising concerns among staff. Male party was out for a ride on his new bike. He was advised to stay away from the school.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — The South County Senior’s governing document has finally received a long-overdue review.

By ALLEN WOODS

In the movie dramatizing the Watergate scandal, a secretive informant meets a reporter in a dark parking garage and advises him to “follow the money” in order to unravel the mystery involving a botched robbery directed by Richard Nixon’s White House. The actual events (testimony from White House lawyers, a mysterious 18-minute gap in the Oval Office tapes when the crisis was discussed) might have been even more sensational than the movie, but the movie phrase had legs. It is now a directive for understanding controversial government and business actions.