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By BELLA LEVAVI
Artist Mary Frongillo loves to play and employs play to understand the world around her.Frongillo is the first featured lobby artist of the year at Greenfield Community Television (GCTV), located at 393 Main St., with her solo show, “Shapes in Space,”...
By JAN FLASKA
I often ask the students I teach to tell me which fruit was forbidden by God in the Garden of Eden. A quick, abrupt answer is speculative: “Apple!” A thoughtful answer obligates us to read the source, which states that it is not specified. Now the...
The Massachusetts hockey team survived Maine’s first power play of the third period. When the Black Bears went back on the power play just 47 seconds after the initial UMass kill, it was a different story. Tied 1-1, Aydar Suniev was whistled for a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — The Mahar boys basketball team’s run in the MIAA Division 5 state tournament was in serious peril after eight minutes of Friday’s game against Boston English. Hosting the No. 13 Eagles in the quarterfinals, the fifth-seeded Senators found...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GILL — A man was airlifted to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield on Friday evening after his motorcycle collided with a car near 39 French King Highway.Gill Police and Fire departments, assisted by the Montague and Erving Police departments, shut...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Some residents are not too friendly to the idea of a Starbucks setting up shop in Franklin County.At its meeting on Thursday, the Planning Board delayed its decision on whether to approve a site plan for the national coffeehouse chain to...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
AMHERST – UMass director of athletics Ryan Bamford confirmed on Thursday that UMass will increase its men’s basketball budget upon entrance to the Mid-American Conference for the 2025-26 academic year. UMass spent $4.5 million on men’s basketball last...
By JAMES PENTLAND, CHRIS LARABEE, BELLA LEVAVI and DOMENIC POLI
A $4 million grant for the 1888 Building in Deerfield, as well as million-dollar grants for Hilltown Community Development Corp.’s Mobile Market and Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield are included in the budget bill approved Wednesday by the U.S. House...
By STEVE PFARRER
Augusta Savage rose to prominence as a sculptor and educator when she moved to New York City in the 1920s, where she soon became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.But Savage, who was also a determined advocate for equal rights for African...
By STEVE PFARRER
Chester Theatre Company turns 35 this year, and for its 2024 season, the ensemble is throwing in some new wrinkles to mark the occasion, from the world premiere of two new plays, the addition of some Friday matinee shows, and a production that the New...
By PAUL FRANZ
TURNERS FALLS — Firefighters from several towns extinguished a small fire in a one-story home at 41 Coolidge Ave. on Friday.A call came in at 11:59 a.m. reporting smoke coming from the home. According to Fire Chief Todd Brunelle, upon arrival,...
Good morning!The UMass Minutemen are the prodigal children of college football, returning to the Mid-American Conference from whence they came.It took nine seasons of anchoring the FBS, of winning 16 games and losing 72, of burning through millions of...
By BELLA LEVAVI
When Brolin Winning owned Smokey Bro’s BBQ on the Mohawk Trail several years ago, tons of tourists who stopped at his Shelburne establishment for a bite to eat had the same question for him.“Every single weekend, people would ask us if there was a...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — After a four-year hiatus, the Greenfield High School Drama Club will return to the stage for its production of “Myth Adventures: Five Greek Classics.”Sporting laurel wreaths, crowns and togas, the young actors maneuvered the stage...
By BELLA LEVAVI
CHARLEMONT — The Academy at Charlemont’s winter play reveals that people have feared AI for far longer than computers have existed.The Academy at Charlemont’s theater program invites the public to its production of Karel Capek’s 1920 play “Rossum’s...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Following its presentation earlier this week, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved a $12.9 million fiscal year 2025 budget on Thursday evening.The FY25 budget represents a 3.14%, or $395,037, increase over...
By DOMENIC POLI
WENDELL — A minor oil leak at the police substation was remedied by the supplying business last week, according to Wendell’s projects coordinator.Phil Delorey told Selectboard members at Wednesday night’s meeting that Sandri Energy responded to clean...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
A modern spin on the Greek mythology will hit the stage at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center Friday, March 8, with the world premier of “Gorgons,” a play written by Megan Tripaldi and directed by Kevin Vandevelve. The two-actor play, starring Human...
By DOUG SELWYN
A recent essay by Blythe Thomas, initiative director at 1000 Days, an organization that fights “to make health and well-being during the first 1,000 days (between pregnancy and a child’s 2nd birthday) a policy and funding priority,” begins by asking...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — At one time, the U.S. post office in town center doubled as a general store, a place where adults picked up and sent their mail or filled their gas tanks and children could choose from a wide variety of penny candy on their way to and from...
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