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By JUDY WAGNER

June first, it snowed. The cottonwood trees were sending their white fluffy seed puffs down like large, slow-drifting snowflakes. In places they settled on puddles or coated newly raked garden beds with a light covering that did not melt.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — Residents will be asked to vote on nine articles during this week’s Special Town Meeting, including funding requests for the Farley Bridge repair project and replacement of the Church Street Bridge.

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Every positive change — every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness — involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. ~ Dan Millman

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Green River Festival returned to the Franklin County Fairgrounds for the 39th year, kicking off the summer and showcasing improvements from last year by emphasizing all the Pioneer Valley has to offer in talent — and beer.

By MIKE PESOLIand JOSH BOAK

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites while Vice President JD Vance said the strikes have given Tehran a renewed chance of negotiating with Washington.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Community members are invited to learn about river corridor mapping and work being done along the Clesson Brook Watershed during an open house on Saturday, June 28.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — The Charlemont Forum’s 2025 speaker series will continue Thursday, June 26, with a presentation by David S. Tatel, a former U.S. Court of Appeals judge.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — The organizers of the 17th annual Ashfield FilmFest have a new challenge for filmmakers in western Massachusetts, and a $1,000 prize for the filmmaker who best meets it.

By JEAN IDA HOFFMAN

I was a student at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 when the National Guard murdered four students (including two of my friends) and wounding nine. This was the worst memory of my life and I experienced a visceral reaction this month as I watched Trump call in the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of the mayor of the city as well as the governor of California.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — “Electronic cocaine.” “A youth behavioral health crisis on steroids.” “Nothing’s more aggravating to me as a parent.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

MONTAGUE — The Community Health Center of Franklin County is getting ready to hit the road.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town now owns the 1.06 acres at 16-36 West River St., the former site of an old cereal factory that three juveniles destroyed by arson three years ago.

Trailing 4-0 into the bottom of the seventh inning, it seemed like Greenfield Post 81 was headed toward a third consecutive loss to open its American Legion Senior Division season on Friday night.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — With a Proposition 2½ override vote coming to the ballot boxes on Monday, roughly 50 people gathered in Town Hall’s Ruth B. Smith Auditorium this week to voice their thoughts to the Selectboard on the budget proposal.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Wednesday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, locally based Transhealth is sending a clear message to its patients and the community: health and community services for trans individuals in Massachusetts will persist as long as trans people exist.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — Fixing a sinkhole that was caused by a broken clay sewer pipe on East Main Street closed a portion of the road from Cumberland Farms to Grove Street on Friday.

By CHRIS LARABEE

The federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and President Donald Trump that was filed by Red Fire Farm and other organizations over frozen government money will move forward, as a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has laid out a schedule of further proceedings.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — Voters will be asked to approve transferring $76,341 to cover budget overages for Highway Department supplies and vocational school tuition during next week’s Special Town Meeting.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — From education and affordable housing, to agriculture and federal funding cuts, area legislators at the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative breakfast shared their priorities for this session.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After several years of darkness, the lights behind the clock faces at the South Deerfield Congregational Church finally flicked back on recently, brighter than ever.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A Special Town Meeting is set for next week, as residents are asked to register an official notice of interest for the 1888 Building’s rehabilitation that would allow the project to move forward.