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By MADISON SCHOFIELD
A Charlemont mosaic artist is looking for people to join her on a working trip to Guatemala in early 2025. Cindy Fisher of Bing Bang Mosaics has been working with mosaics since 2000, but said she’s been interested in them since she was a kid. “I just...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
COLRAIN — Voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to adopt the Community Preservation Act and institute a 3% surcharge on real estate taxes to fund historic preservation, recreation and housing projects.Question 6 failed, with 573 “no” votes...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE — Following problems where Transfer Station users have been refusing to identify themselves to the attendants and non-residents have been disposing of items, the Selectboard is planning to implement a new system.Starting July 1, Shelburne...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Living in Franklin County, a helping hand is never far from reach, and to highlight just how close some of those hands are, the Mary Lyon Foundation held its second annual West County Community Resource Fair on Wednesday.There are so...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
COLRAIN — Voters will have a chance to reconsider a measure they turned down at Town Meeting in June. Colrain’s Question 6 on the Nov. 5 ballot asks whether or not the town should institute a 3% surcharge to its real estate tax in order to adopt the...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
COLRAIN — Community members are rallying together to raise money for a couple who lost their supply of winter firewood in a blaze on Saturday. The Colrain Fire Department was dispatched to 83 Archambo Road at 3:17 p.m., where the woodshed of Walter...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
ROWE — The Rowe Park Commission has selected Briel Gibson of Charlemont as the new park manager of Pehlam Lake Park, a role she is expected to begin in November.Gibson has worked for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation for the past few...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — With Halloween just a few days away, nearly all the displays and decorations are set up, but for those seeking a final touch, consider a pumpkin with a heart carved into it.For eight years, community members have gathered to carve...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
MONTAGUE — A $2.8 million project involving a screw pump replacement and other essential equipment upgrades is underway at the Montague Clean Water Facility. The facility at 34 Greenfield Road was originally built in 1962, according to Clean Water...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — Forty voters filled Town Hall on Tuesday evening to approve the discontinuation of a portion of Old Upper Street and the borrowing of up to $150,000 for Avery Road repairs, as well as a couple housekeeping items, in a swift 24-minute...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — During a time of rising costs, stagnant state aid and declining enrollment, the 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, has selected five options of possible reorganization for the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
Although Boston meteorologist Dan Leonard beat out nearly 9,000 registered treasure hunters to locate a 24-karat gold statue valued at $26,725 in the Wendell State Forest, it was ultimately a dark-horse treasurer hunter who cracked the code to the...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — Most of the decisions to be made at Tuesday’s four-article Special Town Meeting pertain to roads, including whether to discontinue a portion of Old Upper Street and borrow up to $150,000 to repair Avery Road.The meeting will be held at...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Get a glimpse of life before industrialization at the annual Working Weavers Studio Trail. On Saturday, Oct. 19, and Sunday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weavers in Franklin and Hampshire counties will open their studios for all...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
In the world of fast fashion, the life cycle of a fabric is pretty grim: cut, quickly sewn together into a garment and mass produced, then worn and enjoyed for a season or two before being retired to the back of the closet or tossed into a landfill....
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
HAWLEY — After about nine months serving as Hawley’s primary ambulance service, the Shelburne Falls Fire District has announced it will no longer be answering calls in Hawley after Nov. 25.As a potential solution to its ambulance needs, the town is...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
CHARLEMONT — A group of people with Indigenous ancestry hopes to bring back the powwow and revitalize the Indian Plaza in Charlemont as a hub for celebrating Native American culture.It began with a dream. Theresa “Star” Stewart recounted having a...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
ASHFIELD— A new solar array may be coming to the wastewater treatment plant on Conway Road. The Ashfield Selectboard has given the Energy Committee the go ahead to begin designing an array to fit the town’s needs with Solect Energy, a solar company...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
ASHFIELD — Sunday morning was cloudy and gray, but the rain cleared away just in time for the second day of the 54th Ashfield Fall Festival, and all the community celebratory fun scheduled with it.Since October of 1970, Ashfield Fall Festival has been...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
A new conservation agent has been hired to serve the towns of Ashfield, Buckland, Hawley, Whately and Williamsburg.Greenfield resident Kelly Kowal was chosen out of 27 applicants. A hiring committee consisting of representatives from each town...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
ASHFIELD — Wanted: the weirdest trash in western Franklin County. A local 9-year-old is organizing a litter pickup competition to encourage people to clean up their communities. Everett Miller has been focused on cleaning up trash for a few years now....
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