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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — Dan Miner, who serves as the school resource officer at Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, is leaving the school temporarily, along with comfort dog Mack, due to staffing shortages within the Montague Police Department.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — All eight articles on the Special Town Meeting warrant were approved Wednesday night, including a contentious article regarding vocational school transportation costs for a Montague student attending Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GILL — The McCollum Hockey Arena at Northfield Mount Hermon School has been closed and a Friday girls varsity hockey game has been moved due to a fire that broke out in one of the four locker rooms Wednesday night.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE CENTER — Before Nov. 5, 2024, Montague Center residents Sarah Bliss and Marina Goldman were strangers. By Feb. 5, they were carpooling to Springfield together to dip their toes in the water of political activism.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — Town officials discussed a financial hurdle on Monday night after Tighe & Bond engineers presented estimates for demolition of the former Strathmore mill complex at 20 Canal St.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — Requests to use $48,500 for a conference room and break room renovation at the Clean Water Facility and $24,000 to supplement the Turners Falls Municipal Airport are among the topics Special Town Meeting voters will consider on Wednesday.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
TURNERS FALLS — The selectboards and finance committees of Gill and Montague met with Gill-Montague Regional School District administrators this week to review the proposed fiscal year 2026 school budget ahead of a Feb. 11 public hearing.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GREENFIELD — Two Nolumbeka Project events will be held at Greenfield Community College this weekend, including a Friday night speaking program and Saturday afternoon social dance.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GILL — Erosion was the Conservation Commission’s chief concern during a discussion Tuesday regarding the state Department of Environmental Protection’s draft decision approving a water quality certification for FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Three Erving police officers and a mental health clinician with Clinical & Support Options (CSO) have been formally commended for their lifesaving actions in two different incidents involving suicidal individuals at the French King Bridge.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — After a year of searching, the Selectboard voted to appoint Greenfield resident Glenn Johnson-Mussad to serve as town planner starting at the end of March.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — The town has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) for traffic-calming measures, as well as bicycle and pedestrian safety infrastructure improvements, in Montague Center.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Department heads presented their fiscal year 2026 budget requests and hopes for capital projects on Monday, including multi-year, $2.35 million Care Drive infrastructure improvements.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
TURNERS FALLS — When The Performance Project’s First Generation ensemble gathered to put together its materials for “Mother Tongue,” one question was used to guide the performers.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — Gill-Montague Regional School District’s $1.3 million projected budget shortfall for fiscal year 2026 has been mitigated, and a revised preliminary budget was unanimously approved by the School Committee Tuesday night.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — State and local officials are feeling optimistic after a Tuesday afternoon presentation detailing Erving’s planned affordable senior and multi-generational housing project called Evergreen Circle at Care Drive.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
TURNERS FALLS — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has issued a draft decision approving a water quality certification for FirstLight Hydro Generating Co., marking the latest required step in FirstLight’s relicensing process through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Though her midwife told her to be prepared for a quick birth, Amy Clukey expected to make it to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield from her home in Templeton in time to deliver her second child.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GILL — Residents can expect a tax rate of $14.66 per $1,000 of assessed value for fiscal year 2025, representing a drop of 82 cents compared to FY24, but the average single-family home will see a $282 increase on its bill due to rising property values in town.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Residents of both Erving and Wendell expressed their interest in a shared-use path to connect the two towns during a community engagement session this week and provided feedback seeking a “less is more” approach to constructing the path for bicyclists, pedestrians and some vehicles.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
Tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 25) at the Rendezvous, the band The Frost Heaves and Hales will play a show that band member Daniel Hales thought he’d never do again.
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