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By AL NORMAN

I spent two hours on the phone recently listening to a Greenfield Conservation Commission Zoom meeting reviewing an application from Benderson Development of Newtonville, New York, “one of the largest privately-owned development companies” in America....

By AL NORMAN

Two months ago, an elderly homeowner in Maplewood, New Jersey, burned down her 18th century home, which she had lived in for 60 years, rather than let an investor acquire it from the township for back taxes. The elder went to the basement and stabbed...

By AL NORMAN

Ellie Mandell and her husband moved from Watertown to Greenfield in 2013. “I have environmental illness. Over time it became clear that our 1920s home in Watertown was making me ill,” she explains. “One of the reasons we chose Greenfield was that we...

By AL NORMAN

Tonight, the Greenfield City Council may take the first step towards ending an unconstitutional state law that has come to be known as “home equity theft.”Massachusetts is one of only 13 states that allows home equity theft. In Alabama, Arizona,...