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By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The lights will be a little brighter on Frontier Regional School’s stage this upcoming school year, as the School Committee has approved a $100,000 transfer to replace the auditorium’s lighting.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Staff at the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) were checking their inboxes on April 2 and found a strange email in the spam folder.

By CHRIS LARABEE

Beginning more than a decade ago and wrapping up in 2016, a wide-ranging coalition in western Massachusetts banded together to resist Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.’s Northeast Energy Direct project, which proposed a pipeline running through eight Franklin County towns.

SUNDERLAND — Frontier Community Access Television (FCAT) will host open hours for drop-in video editing help each Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Three Franklin County farms have been awarded $101,875 in land stewardship grants from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) to aid in maintenance efforts that will ensure the land remains farmable for future generations.

By CHRIS LARABEE

The Greenfield Garden Cinemas is rolling out a red-carpet premiere of its own on April 16, as it welcomes the public to a free screening of a locally-produced short film with a question-and-answer session to follow.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional and Union 38 School Committees solidified their policies on access to education, student privacy and immigration enforcement this week.

By EDITH and ALAN LIPP

The political race season is upon us again in Deerfield, which got us to thinking about an actual road race in a December 2012 international competition. The lead runner, Kenyan Abel Mutai, stopped just shy of the finish line. He had become confused by the unfamiliar signals.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — When one thinks of high school concerts, they may think of a choir, the marching band or a classical orchestra, but at Frontier Regional School Thursday evening, the public is invited to see a show of a different kind.

By CHRIS LARABEE

The survey results detailing resident feedback on two proposed South County Senior Center sites are in, with Whately as the first choice among the 120 respondents.

Congratulations to columnist Jon Huer (”How liberty itself killed liberalism in America,” Recorder, March 5), who has once again shown us all how smart he is, and how the America we now find ourselves in is an expected outcome given our history. If we had only listened to him all these years, then … what?

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A peer review for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed location off Plain Road East has found no “fatal flaws” that would pose a risk to public health or safety, according to the engineer, but there are some details regarding traffic and noise that need to be addressed.

By BILL DANIELSON

We have reached that time of year when going to work in the morning becomes more difficult with every passing day. The world is waking up from its winter slumber and more and more items of interest present themselves to be observed and adored. I have a rather lengthy commute to work and as the amount of daylight increases each day, so to do the number of distractions. Like Odysseus tempted by the Sirens, I navigate this passage of temptation every day. There are mornings when I feel like my heart will break as I am forced to pilot myself past birds and flowers that sing out to me and beg me to stop and pay attention to them.

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

DEERFIELD — When the New England West Skating Club hosted its yearly exhibition at the Deerfield Academy ice rink on Saturday night, the skaters performed not only for a crowd of family members and friends, but to honor the figure skaters who died in the Jan. 29 American Airlines crash in Washington D.C.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The town’s new planning and economic development coordinator officially settled into Town Hall on March 24, bringing a background in planning, zoning and grant applications.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A six-member review committee for the senior housing project’s request for proposals was appointed Wednesday night, about two weeks before the April 17 deadline.