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Volunteers, students team up in penpal program

GREENFIELD -- C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" has been a classroom bookshelf classic for six decades, a blockbuster movie hit and, this spring, the topic of a series of letters between…

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Third Thursday in Turners Falls kicks off

TURNERS FALLS -- The RiverCulture program's latest venture, a monthly downtown cultural evening, begins Thursday with knights and photography taking center stage and closing with a free outdoor screening…

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Council to vote on controversial reappointment

GREENFIELD -- Mayor William Martin has said he is not going to play "political games" with town councilors who are trying to block a longtime Planning Board member's nomination to a new term. After hearing…

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Town Council to discuss election changes

GREENFIELD -- Town Council will discuss possible changes to election dates and how long officials serve in town government at its regular monthly meeting tonight beginning at 7. The full council will…

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Motion to slash preschool opposed

ORANGE -- While some tweaks to budget line items were approved at the annual meeting this week, tempers wore thin as the hour grew later and a major cut in school spending was suggested by a Finance Committee…

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Goodbye, Carlinville: Filming ends in Shelburne

SHELBURNE -- The "Crawford County Sheriff's Dept" sign is gone from above the doorway of Memorial Hall, and the "Carlinville Savings Bank" is once again Greenfield Cooperative Bank. On Monday and Tuesday,…

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Charney/My Turn: Unintended consequences

"The opposite of poverty is not wealth but justice." -- Bryan Stevenson Kiera, 16, was an honor student in Bartow, Fla., until she was expelled. Kiera, curious to find out if it was true that an eight-ounce…