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By CHRIS LARABEE

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is seeking information about weather-related losses in 2023 and 2024 from farmers across the state as it prepares to report damages to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which will split up $220 million in relief funding among eight states.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — The Selectboard conditionally approved the renewal of Club Castaway’s licenses Tuesday evening, as the business has paid off the majority of money it owed to the town.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — A coalition of more than 30 groups from around western Massachusetts will gather in Greenfield Saturday to lay out their plans for the incoming Trump administration.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — While the Pioneer Valley Regional School District opted last summer to revisit the idea of moving the sixth grade classes to the middle and high school, the conversation is again being put on pause.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Residents will soon have an opportunity to provide input on a proposed marijuana manufacturing bylaw amendment put forward by Debilitating Medical Condition Treatment Centers (DMCTC).

By CHRIS LARABEE

Just over a month since Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) benefits were cut by a minimum of 50%, local businesses and advocates for the initiative are hopeful that it will be restored, as farmers, vendors and stores are seeing the effects of reduced benefits.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A Greenfield man was issued a criminal summons following a crash on Pine Nook Road in Deerfield on Thursday afternoon, which required the help of several area departments and State Police to search for him after he allegedly left the scene.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Frontier Regional School administrators pitched their revised graduation requirement proposal to the School Committee this week, as schools around the state prepare for the fallout of Question 2.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Regional School District is one of three finalist districts that could serve as an anchor school for high schoolers from Winchester, New Hampshire, who will be without a district at the end of the 2026-2027 school year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With screening interviews set for next week, the town expects to have its vacant planning and economic development coordinator role filled in February.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — After more than two and a half years on Main Street, The Imaginary Bookshop is closing at the end of January.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Four people, including a woman who was seven months pregnant and a 9-year-old child, were severely injured and transported to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after a crash near the Whately town line on Routes 5 and 10 on Wednesday morning.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With unanimous site plan approval from the Deerfield Planning Board, the 1888 Building rehabilitation and addition project has cleared the last of its major hurdles.The town came before the board on Monday evening for a continuation...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) has invited the Pioneer Valley Regional School District into its eligibility program for building a new school, the first major step in what could be a years-long process.The MSBA’s board...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Editor’s note: To mark the start of a new year, the Greenfield Recorder is publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2025. When the calendar flipped to 2024, Conway and Deerfield were...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — The former Zion Korean Church will stand for at least six more months, as the city’s demolition delay bylaw kicked into effect Thursday night following a vote by the Historical Commission to designate it as a “preferably preserved...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BERNARDSTON — The Selectboard has tapped a longtime housing manager with deep experience in event coordination to succeed its outgoing Senior Center director.The board, in a special meeting Monday evening, appointed Pam Parmakian, former director of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With the help of $40,749 from a Colorado-based foundation supporting older adults and their caregivers, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments will begin to implement two of its regional priorities in its Age- and Dementia-Friendly...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Franklin County’s YMCA will come before the Historical Commission again Thursday, as the commission will hold a public hearing to determine whether the city’s demolition delay bylaw will apply to the former Zion Korean Church.In the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — After more than three years in Land Court, a judge has ruled in favor of Deerfield in the case of whether the entirety of Steam Mill Road is a public way.The town and the Billings family have been entangled in the lawsuit over the status...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has approved a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to study what portions of the Deerfield River and its tributaries could be incorporated into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.The Senate’s Dec. 18...