Greenfield Recorder Feed https://www.recorder.com/SpecialPages/RSSHeadlines RSS Feed for most recent Greenfield Recorder articles en DCR sees booking surge at state campgrounds https://www.recorder.com/DCR-sees-booking-surge-at-state-campgrounds-54444414 It seems people from all over are anxious for spring to arrive as bookings at the three state camping locations in Franklin and Hampshire counties are filling up fast.The state Department of Conservation and Recreation reports that at least 756 total... By DOMENIC POLI / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:23:32 -0400 Headlinealerts outdoors goshen ma Charlemont Ma Massachusetts facebook Recreation Erving MA nature Department of Conservation and Recreation https://www.recorder.com/DCR-sees-booking-surge-at-state-campgrounds-54444414 UMass hockey: 9-time national champion Denver awaits Minutemen in NCAA Springfield Regional opener https://www.recorder.com/UMass-hockey-hosts-Denver-in-Springfield-regional-of-NCAA-tournament-54544594 SPRINGFIELD — Greg Carvel had his house to himself last Saturday, the date of the University of Denver’s NCHC title game with Omaha. If Denver won, the UMass ice hockey head coach and his team would be back in the NCAA tournament. A loss would mark... By GARRETT COTE / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:08:08 -0400 Headlinealerts umass hockey NCAA ncaa tournament colleges facebook Greg Carvel DENVER https://www.recorder.com/UMass-hockey-hosts-Denver-in-Springfield-regional-of-NCAA-tournament-54544594 PHOTOS: Frontier students consider future career paths https://www.recorder.com/PHOTOS-Frontier-students-consider-future-career-paths-54542750 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:05 -0400 Headlinealerts SOUTH DEERFIELD MA facebook Frontier Regional School https://www.recorder.com/PHOTOS-Frontier-students-consider-future-career-paths-54542750 High schools: Spring sports season gets underway Thursday https://www.recorder.com/High-schools-MIAA-Spring-sports-season-gets-underway-Thursday-54542100 While the brisk, chilly weather this week doesn’t make it seem like the spring sports season is here, local high school baseball, softball, tennis and volleyball teams will get their campaigns underway Thursday and Friday.With it being a light winter... By THOMAS JOHNSTON / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:46:08 -0400 Headlinealerts baseball softball facebook tennis volleyball PVIAC https://www.recorder.com/High-schools-MIAA-Spring-sports-season-gets-underway-Thursday-54542100 My Turn: Discover and protect a Greenfield treasure https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Rorabacher-54436854 There is hidden treasure right here in Greenfield. Years ago, the treasure was in plain sight. Now it is practically unrecognizable except in the early spring. I discovered small nuggets of the treasure when Ted Watt, well-known naturalist and... By WISTY RORABACHER Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:43:59 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Greenfield MA facebook https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Rorabacher-54436854 My Turn: Creating our own reality and staying grounded during times of chaos https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Williams-54526249 Since what we focus on is where our energy flows, why not focus on good. We create our own reality, every moment of every day. Since this is the case, there is great news. We no longer have to focus on negative things unless we choose to.It has been... By JEREMY WILLIAMS Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:42:23 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Williams-54526249 Leo Ojala: Santos for Pence https://www.recorder.com/LtrOjala-54508135 Mike Pence has made it clear he’s not going to hang around. King Con needs a replacement. George Santos is the obvious choice. He’s another New York con man. Both men are made of the same moral fiber. They both have disrespect, disdain and disregard... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:41:04 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Shelburne MA https://www.recorder.com/LtrOjala-54508135 Mike Conboy: Blaming U.S. for war in Ukraine misguided https://www.recorder.com/-54500172 I applaud writer Patricia Greene’s efforts to support peace in the world wherever it is threatened [“There would be no war in Ukraine without the U.S.,” Recorder, March 23], but I am unconvinced of the claim stated in the headline of her column. I am... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:41:04 -0400 Headlinealerts Letter to the Editors https://www.recorder.com/-54500172 Judge Laurie MacLeod: GCC key to literature program’s success https://www.recorder.com/LtrMacleod-54524208 Thank you to reporter Anthony Cammalleri and the Recorder for publishing the article about the innovative programs supported by the Massachusetts Trial Court (“Promoting Justice,” March 21). I write only to make a minor correction regarding the... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:41:03 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/LtrMacleod-54524208 David Parrella: Conspiracies and immigration https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54526766 A recent My Turn in the Recorder blamed our problems at the border on a deliberate Marxist-Globalist conspiracy to destroy our country. Many of those who seem to hold these views are descendants of the Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century who... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:41:01 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Buckland Ma https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54526766 Greenfield’s Lucas Allenby, Landon Allenby qualify for USASA Nationals https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-s-Lucas-Allenby-Landon-Allenby-qualify-for-USASA-Nationals-54541945 A pair of local athletes are heading to Colorado next month to compete against the best skiers in the country. Landon Allenby and Lucas Allenby, 12-year-old twins from Greenfield, began skiing at Berkshire East but have mostly taught themselves how to... Staff Report Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:31:52 -0400 Headlinealerts skiing facebook USASA https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-s-Lucas-Allenby-Landon-Allenby-qualify-for-USASA-Nationals-54541945 Greenfield Police seek robbery suspect https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Police-seek-robbery-suspect-54540680 GREENFIELD — Greenfield Police are looking for the individual who allegedly robbed Call’s Corner Store on Conway Street on Tuesday night before fleeing the business with its cash register.According to Deputy Police Chief William Gordon, investigating... By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:29:13 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield MA crime facebook Greenfield Police Department https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Police-seek-robbery-suspect-54540680 Greenfield hockey’s Jake Jurek, Shawn Baumann take home Bessone Awards https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-hockey-s-Jake-Jurek-Shawn-Baumann-take-home-Bessone-Awards-54527455 The 2024 Amo Bessone Western Mass. High School Hockey Awards were announced earlier this week, and a pair of Greenfield players were honored for their outstanding seasons on the ice.Green Wave junior forward Jake Jurek was one of two players to... By THOMAS JOHNSTON / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:29:12 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield facebook Greenfield hockey bessone awards https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-hockey-s-Jake-Jurek-Shawn-Baumann-take-home-Bessone-Awards-54527455 Parking, future city projects dominate listening session with Greenfield businesses https://www.recorder.com/Parking-future-city-projects-dominate-listening-session-with-Greenfield-businesses-54536364 GREENFIELD — Local entrepreneurs shared their views on an array of topics impacting business during a listening session with the mayor on Tuesday, with a focus on parking downtown, construction and future economic development projects.As attendees... By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:36 -0400 Headlinealerts Business Greenfield MA facebook parking https://www.recorder.com/Parking-future-city-projects-dominate-listening-session-with-Greenfield-businesses-54536364 Driver taken to hospital after Interstate 91 rollover in Bernardston https://www.recorder.com/Driver-taken-to-hospital-after-Interstate-91-rollover-in-Bernardston-54540506 BERNARDSTON — A man was transported to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont on Wednesday morning after the vehicle he was driving rolled over in the area of mile marker 54 in Interstate 91’s northbound lane.According to a post on the Bernardston... Staff Report Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:47:50 -0400 Headlinealerts Bernardston MA facebook Brattleboro VT https://www.recorder.com/Driver-taken-to-hospital-after-Interstate-91-rollover-in-Bernardston-54540506 On The Ridge with Joe Judd: A call to the creator https://www.recorder.com/On-The-Ridge-A-call-to-the-creator-Niles-Oesterle-54540976 As opening day of the 2024 turkey hunting season slowly approaches, I found myself wandering into my den looking over my collection of turkey calls while reaching for certain ones that have meant something to me over the years. Now, this yearly... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:34:44 -0400 Headlinealerts outdoors facebook columns Joe Judd https://www.recorder.com/On-The-Ridge-A-call-to-the-creator-Niles-Oesterle-54540976 Sounds Local: Thriving on a riff: Percussionist Tony Vacca brings Fusion Nomads to Hawks & Reed this Friday for ‘a magic carpet ride’ https://www.recorder.com/sounds-local-march-28-54525044 ‘From the first time a musician went beyond his or her home village, or region, or nation,” percussionist Tony Vacca says, “music has been an ever-expanding, multi-culti hybrid of instruments and ways to play them.” According to Vacca, that is the... By SHERYL HUNTER / For the Recorder Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:04:07 -0400 Headlinealerts music Greenfield MA sounds local facebook Jamaica events jazz Hawks & Reed Simon White reggae Tony Vacca world music https://www.recorder.com/sounds-local-march-28-54525044 Latest plan for Whately Center School opts to retain town ownership https://www.recorder.com/Latest-plan-for-Whately-Center-School-opts-to-retain-town-ownership-54538334 WHATELY — With the rejection of two reuse proposals that involved selling the building, the future of the Whately Center School is now back in the hands of the town, as the Selectboard opted on Tuesday to let the school’s Visioning Committee flesh out... By CHRIS LARABEE / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:01:49 -0400 Headlinealerts Whately Ma facebook Whately Center School https://www.recorder.com/Latest-plan-for-Whately-Center-School-opts-to-retain-town-ownership-54538334 Greenfield Police Logs: March 13 to March 20, 2024 https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Police-Logs-March-13-to-March-20-2024-54484158 Wednesday, March 132:43 p.m. — Larceny reported on Haywood Street. Services rendered.3:22 p.m. — Casey Christian Guillemette, 38 of Wells Street in Greenfield, was arrested at the Winslow building on a warrant. 4:21 p.m. — Hit and run investigated at... Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:47:58 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield MA Greenfield Police Department https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Police-Logs-March-13-to-March-20-2024-54484158 Reps of ‘sticky businesses’ share stories at March Chamber of Commerce breakfast https://www.recorder.com/Reps-of-sticky-businesses-share-stories-at-March-Chamber-of-Commerce-breakfast-54487552 GREENFIELD — Representatives of Franklin County’s stickier industries, ranging from honey and maple syrup to doughnuts and asphalt, took center stage at this month’s Franklin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast.Speakers at Terrazza Ristorante... For the Recorder Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:03:52 -0400 Headlinealerts Business Greenfield MA facebook Franklin County Chamber of Commerce https://www.recorder.com/Reps-of-sticky-businesses-share-stories-at-March-Chamber-of-Commerce-breakfast-54487552 Pioneer Valley farmers spotlight agricultural drainage ditch troubles https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-Valley-farmers-spotlight-agricultural-drainage-ditch-troubles-54525315 HADLEY — During a summer in which area farms dealt with significant rainfall and flooded fields, keeping agricultural drainage ditches cleared became essential to protecting crops by ensuring excess water could be removed.Often, though, farmers found... By SCOTT MERZBACH / Staff Writer Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:38:13 -0400 Headlinealerts Agriculture hadley ma FARMING CLIMATE CHANGE facebook https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-Valley-farmers-spotlight-agricultural-drainage-ditch-troubles-54525315 Ex-superintendent, medical director of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home change pleas https://www.recorder.com/Ex-super-med-director-of-Holyoke-Soldiers-Home-change-pleas-54530799 NORTHAMPTON — Four years after reports of veterans’ deaths at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke began to grow in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal cases against the home’s former superintendent and medical director came to an end at a... By JAMES PENTLAND / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:49:28 -0400 Headlinealerts court holyoke ma facebook covid-19 Holyoke Soldiers Home https://www.recorder.com/Ex-super-med-director-of-Holyoke-Soldiers-Home-change-pleas-54530799 Springfield man gets 5 years in Greenfield shooting case https://www.recorder.com/Springfield-man-gets-5-years-in-Greenfield-shooting-case-54513967 GREENFIELD — A Springfield man who fired 15 bullets at a Greenfield Gardens apartment in July 2022 before fleeing was sentenced to five years in prison after changing his plea to guilty on Tuesday afternoon.Qadree M. Hutchins, 29, pleaded guilty in... By DOMENIC POLI / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:47:50 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield MA court SPRINGFIELD MA facebook Franklin County Superior Court https://www.recorder.com/Springfield-man-gets-5-years-in-Greenfield-shooting-case-54513967 Bulletin board: Frontier baseball ‘Ham Slam Raffle’ this Friday https://www.recorder.com/Bulletin-board-Frontier-baseball-Ham-Slam-Raffle-this-Friday-54525658 The Frontier Regional baseball team will hold its sixth annual ‘Ham Slam Raffle’ this Friday, March 29 at the South Deerfield Polish Club.The Redhawks’ raffle will begin at 6 p.m., and raffle rounds include prizes from local businesses like... Staff Reports Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:28:31 -0400 Headlinealerts https://www.recorder.com/Bulletin-board-Frontier-baseball-Ham-Slam-Raffle-this-Friday-54525658 Greenfield’s energy and sustainability chief returns after Northampton stint https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-s-energy-and-sustainability-chief-returns-after-Northampton-stint-54522105 GREENFIELD — Less than six months after leaving her decade-long role as Department of Energy and Sustainability director to serve at the helm of Northampton’s first-ever Climate Action and Project Administration Department (CAPA), Carole Collins is... By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:22:58 -0400 Headlinealerts energy Greenfield MA Northampton MA facebook https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-s-energy-and-sustainability-chief-returns-after-Northampton-stint-54522105 UMass football: Minutemen back to work, ‘good feeling to be back’ for Don Brown as spring practice opens https://www.recorder.com/UMass-football-competes-in-first-day-of-spring-practice-Tuesday-morning-54529935 AMHERST — Prior to the UMass football team’s first spring practice of the season on Tuesday morning, head coach Don Brown addressed his team regarding the Minutemen’s current standing with the Mid-American Conference.Brown looked at his players and... By GARRETT COTE / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:18:51 -0400 Headlinealerts UMASS Spring Practice colleges UMass football facebook don brown https://www.recorder.com/UMass-football-competes-in-first-day-of-spring-practice-Tuesday-morning-54529935 UMass basketball: Minutemen’s Jaylen Curry, Daniel Hankins-Sanford agree to NIL deals with The Massachusetts Collective https://www.recorder.com/UMass-men-s-basketball-players-Jaylen-Curry-and-Daniel-Hankins-Sanford-sign-NIL-deals-54529665 AMHERST — Within the last two days, the UMass men’s basketball team received big news regarding two of its student-athletes.Freshman guard Jaylen Curry and sophomore forward Daniel Hankins-Sanford each signed NIL deals with The Massachusetts... By GARRETT COTE / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:02:43 -0400 Headlinealerts UMASS men's basketball facebook NIL Massachusetts Collective https://www.recorder.com/UMass-men-s-basketball-players-Jaylen-Curry-and-Daniel-Hankins-Sanford-sign-NIL-deals-54529665 Deerfield woman gets probation in stabbing case https://www.recorder.com/Kady-Flanagan-gets-probation-for-stabbing-54514031 GREENFIELD — A Deerfield woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation after admitting in Franklin County Superior Court to stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for as a personal care attendant last year.Kady J.... By DOMENIC POLI / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:59:50 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield MA DEERFIELD MA crime court facebook Franklin County Superior Court https://www.recorder.com/Kady-Flanagan-gets-probation-for-stabbing-54514031 Hearing to consider Erving Elementary’s budget; $4.06M proposal favored by committee https://www.recorder.com/Hearing-to-consider-Erving-Elementary-s-budget-4-06M-proposal-favored-by-committee-54484209 ERVING — The Erving School Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday to pick one of three potential fiscal year 2025 budgets — two to the tune of nearly $4.06 million and another that totals approximately $4.13 million.The committee voted in... By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:56:49 -0400 Headlinealerts education facebook Erving MA erving elementary school https://www.recorder.com/Hearing-to-consider-Erving-Elementary-s-budget-4-06M-proposal-favored-by-committee-54484209 UMass hockey: Breaking down the four teams (Denver, Maine, Cornell, UMass) in the Springfield Regional https://www.recorder.com/Breaking-down-the-four-hockey-teams-at-the-NCAA-Division-1-Northeast-Regional-MassMutual-Center-Springfield-54529419 SPRINGFIELD — For the first time ever, Springfield will serve as a regional host for the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament this week.The MassMutual Center will play host to Denver, Maine, Cornell and UMass in a four-team regional with a spot... By JEFF LAJOIE / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:54:18 -0400 Headlinealerts UMASS hockey NCAA Springfield colleges https://www.recorder.com/Breaking-down-the-four-hockey-teams-at-the-NCAA-Division-1-Northeast-Regional-MassMutual-Center-Springfield-54529419 As expansion project begins, Tilton Library move set for April 15 https://www.recorder.com/As-expansion-project-begins-Tilton-Library-move-set-for-April-15-54512821 SOUTH DEERFIELD — Tilton Library has an official date for its move next door to the South Deerfield Congregational Church’s function hall, as its long-awaited expansion project is nearly set to begin.The library will officially move on April 15, but... By CHRIS LARABEE / Staff Writer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:12:51 -0400 Headlinealerts SOUTH DEERFIELD MA DEERFIELD MA facebook Tilton Library South Deerfield Congregational Church https://www.recorder.com/As-expansion-project-begins-Tilton-Library-move-set-for-April-15-54512821 ‘No bunnies in the Bible’: Unpacking the myths and history of hot cross buns at Easter https://www.recorder.com/tinky-weisblat-march-27-54507679 When I was a child, I loved embracing spring at this time of year by eating a hot cross bun. I still do.Hot cross buns are sweet, yeasty rolls traditionally served toward the end of Lent, specifically on Good Friday. The cross of icing that tops them... By TINKY WEISBLAT / For the Recorder Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:55:21 -0400 Headlinealerts Food tinky weisblat recipe baking easter facebook cooking hot cross buns https://www.recorder.com/tinky-weisblat-march-27-54507679 My Turn: Greenfield’s record on housing strong, but more work to do https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnWedegartner-54361312 It’s hard to pick up a local or national newspaper that doesn’t have an article that is either about a housing issue or refers to a housing issue as a factor in the topic being discussed, whether it’s about a lack of affordable housing, or the need... By ROXANN WEDEGARTNER Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:24:57 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Greenfield MA facebook https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnWedegartner-54361312 My Turn: To be or not to be — March’s dilemma https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnWagner-54475052 This is March’s dilemma: Is it time to be spring or not? March has a tough role to play. It is haunted by the old saying: “In like a lamb, out like a lion; in like a lion, out like a lamb.” March is saddled with expectations of changeable behavior and... By JUDY WAGNER Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:22:51 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Northfield MA https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnWagner-54475052 Julia Duncan: Pandemic reflections https://www.recorder.com/LtrDuncan-54508035 It’s been four years since the pandemic hit, yet sometimes it still feels like 2020. I was in a store in Greenfield recently where a young woman was shopping with two small children. All three were wearing masks. I think that’s child abuse, but I said... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:15 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Northfield MA https://www.recorder.com/LtrDuncan-54508035 Glenn Johnson-Mussad: Not a thankless job https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54499676 I was born a twin and my mother already had a 22-month-old, so she was raising three children under the age of two. When people found this out, they often expressed how sorry they were for her. They tried to connect with her about how hard her life... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:12 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54499676 Richard Hilllier: Keep municipal flagpole policies ‘strictly municipal’ https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54483268 The policy for municipal flagpoles seems pretty straightforward to me. Perhaps I’m looking at it too simplistically, but here is my “opinion.”American flags, the state flag, the county or parish flag (whichever (is)(are) applicable), township flag,... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:11 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion SOUTH DEERFIELD MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54483268 Thomas Newton: What veterans can bring to the ballot box https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54508098 I writing in regards to the March 18 letter to the editor by Paul Gallo [“Gratitude for heroes who gave their lives”].In Mr. Gallo’s letter he describes viewing the World War II Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy and of the thousands of American white... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:10 -0400 Headlinealerts Opinion Bernardston MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-54508098 Montague Notebook: March 27, 2024 https://www.recorder.com/Montague-Notebook-March-27-2024-54521550 Housing authority staff coming to Brick HouseTURNERS FALLS — The Brick House Community Resource Center at 24 Third St. will host the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority on Wednesday, March 27, from 9 to 11 a.m. Attendees will... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:58:26 -0400 Headlinealerts MONTAGUE MA TURNERS FALLS MA https://www.recorder.com/Montague-Notebook-March-27-2024-54521550 Greenfield Notebook: March 27, 2024 https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Notebook-March-27-2024-54473187 20,881 gallons discharged during sewer overflow GREENFIELD — A sanitary sewer overflow consisting of 20,881 gallons of untreated sewage and waste occurred in Greenfield on Saturday, March 23, from 7:35 to 9:30 p.m.The untreated sewage discharged from... Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:57:43 -0400 Headlinealerts Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-Notebook-March-27-2024-54473187