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By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee didn’t have to look too far to find its new director of finance and operations.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Crumpin-Fox Club held its Senior Club Championship over the weekend and it came down to a playoff to determine the champion.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — Advocates for single-payer health care say creating a Massachusetts Healthcare Trust could save the state $37.36 billion in health insurance costs.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Baystate Franklin Medical Center’s newest doctors were introduced to Franklin County on Friday through a tour of some not-so-hidden gems in the local health care system.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Replacement of the 79-year-old bridge carrying North Main Street over the railroad tracks is expected to begin sometime later this year, according to the state Department of Transportation.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — The release of 2024 statistics earlier this month indicated crime was down in Massachusetts last year, which the Healey administration said shows the state’s “strong momentum” toward reducing crime and maintaining public safety.

By ISAAC MASS

I am a 14-year criminal defense attorney in private practice primarily representing indigent clients in rural Franklin County.  At first, I joked that I was like Atticus Finch, I worked for hickory nuts.  This grinding job that puts you in touch with people’s most vulnerable moments eventually loses its literary romance.  You realize that fighting for justice is simply not economically sustainable.  Passion and zeal give way to children’s college tuition and funding retirement.  Yet I still feel the call to demand justice.

On Dec. 3, 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol attempted a self-coup by declaring emergency martial law. He and his wife were facing various criminal charges, and his party had only about one third of the seats in the National Assembly, the legislature. Yoon sent soldiers to the legislators’ building to prevent them from exercising their constitutional power to vote down the martial law. They still managed to vote, aided by citizens who surrounded the building to delay the soldiers. On April 4, the Constitutional Court impeached Yoon, who is currently in jail and on trial for insurrection.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — In Biblical fashion, Blessed Trinity Parish’s newest priest felt a clarifying call to the vocation during 40 days in a Middle Eastern desert, while he was serving his country in the U.S. Marine Corps.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

My father used to say that we are all cheap in our own ways. I prefer to use the terms “frugal,” “economical,” or “cost conscious.” Still, I knew what he meant. Whatever our budgets may be (and mine is sometimes very small), we each establish personal priorities about how we want to use those budgets.

By GRACE CHAI

BOSTON — A veteran of the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office and longtime appellate attorney has been nominated to become a Superior Court judge by Gov. Maura Healey.

By ROB OKUN

“The press is the people’s window to the truth, and we need that window to be clear and unobstructed.” — Ronald Reagan, White House briefing for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 17, 1986.

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Kudos to Temple Israel of Greenfield! Its leadership took a huge risk recently, inviting five Palestinians and Israelis to provide deeply personal sharing about their lives back home. Given the “great divide” bifurcating folks into pro and anti Israeli/Palestinian factions, all present knew they would be entering swirling controversy no matter what was spoken by whom. The full group of nine visitors included two co-organizers/coordinators, one who had lived in Palestine for 32 years and the other who resided in Israel for 11 years.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College has received $613,095 in state funding for programs aimed at training 72 students for jobs in health care and early childhood education.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Should Buckland merge its four ZIP codes into one?

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Summer reading programs, English language classes, online research databases used in public schools across the state, free newspaper archives, e-book access and career prep resources are on the chopping block as a cut to federal funding is poised to hit Massachusetts libraries.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — Following the resignation of Health Agent Claudia Sarti, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments is taking over her duties in Ashfield.

By CHRIS LARABEE

COLRAIN — Residents who are interested in supporting pollinators are invited to join the Colrain Pollinator Project on Sunday, July 27, for a biodiversity presentation and meadow walk.