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The My Turn column “Getting renewable energy, battery storage right” (Recorder, June 19) was signed by the president of the Alliance for Climate Transition. This writer is a registered lobbyist for that organization and also president of New England Clean Energy Connect, which is developing a multi-million-dollar deal with the Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec to sell hydroelectric power to distribution companies in Massachusetts.

NEW SALEM — Due to an inability to transport compost to Orange at this time, the Transfer Station is unable to accept compost until further notice. Residents should now put their compost in their regular trash, according to Lynn Layton, a member of the Board of Health, which operates the Transfer Station.

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — The torch has officially been passed at the New Salem and Wendell fire departments, with Matt O’Donnell replacing longtime Chief Joe Cuneo in the dual role on July 1.

ORANGE — The newly named Donald J. Hurtle American Legion Post 172 will be officially dedicated at a special ceremony set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 28.

Today, as I was going through old Recorders, I came across two headlines that caught my eye — Nov. 28, 2024, Northfield: “AG pulls plug on energy bylaws” and Dec. 3, 2024, Shutesbury: “State overrules bylaw on battery storage.”

NEW SALEM — Retired reporter and editor Richie Davis will read from his edited collections of Greenfield Recorder feature stories from around Franklin County and beyond at the New Salem Public Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 12.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

WENDELL — The 117 voters who convened at Town Hall Wednesday night passed a Proposition 2½ override, marking the first time the town has approved an override in two decades.

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Voters that convene at Town Hall on Wednesday night will be asked to pass a Proposition 2½ override to fund town operations.

I was disappointed by the uncritical reporting of the words of Kevin Roberts: “The whole world is mission country today — just like Northfield, Massachusetts, was for the first people who settled here.” [”Protesters oppose Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts as Thomas Aquinas College commencement speaker in Northfield,” Recorder, May 29]. This statement is simply incorrect. The first people who settled here were not Christian missionaries, they were Indigenous Americans with their own culture and spirituality. Colonialism and Christianity have been at the root of countless atrocities, and the destruction of Native American people is one of them. We need moral people of faith to understand how to repair the damage that their own forbears have done, not double down on the kind of Christian nationalism that is embraced by Heritage and Project 2025.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Who better to give a graduation pep talk than a former NFL cheerleader?

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The citizens group that formed in 2023 in opposition to a since-withdrawn proposal for a battery storage facility has filed a motion asking the Land Court to overturn the state Attorney General’s rejection of the group’s proposed bylaw.

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The struggle to finalize a Ralph C. Mahar Regional School budget for fiscal year 2026 has spilled into Wendell, where Orange residents and school officials spoke at a Selectboard meeting to advocate for what they want the budget to reflect.

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Residents voiced concerns about recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehensions and deportations, and support for a Medicare-for-All system and land conservation, during a town hall-style meeting with the Democrat representing the 7th Hampden District on Monday afternoon.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

WENDELL — Before his death in November, Joshua Jay Dostis, better known locally as the politically charged jester Waffles T. Clown, announced his terminal illness in a fashion typical to him, with a communal gathering at the Full Moon Coffeehouse.

Our firefighters take care of us. Courage to confront ultimate hazards is unique to first responders. We reciprocate by trying to assure adequate funding for safety equipment and the means to avert conflagration.

I read in newspaper that April 12, 1861 was the “official” start of the American Civil War. It “0fficially” ended some, what, four years later?

WENDELL — Adam Feltman collected 87 votes in his uncontested bid for a three-year Selectboard seat during Monday’s town election.

By ALEXA LEWIS

HOLYOKE — Unperturbed by the rain that pelted their colorful signs, dozens of impassioned community members hailing from cities and towns across the region gathered in song and frustration to protest state clean energy siting practices they think will be more harmful to the environment than helpful.

Thank you, Gene Stamell, for a wonderful My Turn column about my favorite punctuation, the semicolon! For many years I have edited my children’s writing and now that of my grandchildren, even friends and colleagues, all along educating them about the use of the semicolon to clarify and dress up a sentence, bringing crispness and elan to prose writing. You provided a great deal of information new to me about the semicolon’s history and current usage. I appreciate your amusing column which I do not find “rather trivial“; I love the semicolon!

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Adam Feltman has never served on a municipal board or committee. But that will soon change as long as there are no surprises in Monday’s election.