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By LUKE MACANNUCO

With its newest event, the Montague Retreat Center hopes to offer “a weekend art and cultural immersion with nature as our muse.”

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

A Turners Falls business wants to help you with your honey-do list, no matter who that honey may be.

By JULIAN MENDOZA

In the year since locally filmed drama “Money Game” premiered in Greenfield, the vitality of the film’s message has only gotten stronger, members of the cast and crew say.

By THE REV. CINDY LAJOY

We awaken today to find the detritus of many a Fourth of July celebration scattered around us. We pick up leftover fireworks remnants, perhaps deal with trash piled high from barbecue remains, and we might even need to straighten bunting and streamers flying askew. We don’t give it much thought from year to year, but when you stop to think about it, July 5 is when the real work begins.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — The Selectboard is urging residents to be aware that wastewater should be treated before being released into the ground.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Rick Leskowitz of Buckland is a fascinating figure. He’s a psychiatrist, a bit of a historian and a pioneer in the field of energy medicine. This field aims to explore unseen forces and connections within the human body and between human beings.

Three weeks before this year’s Boston Marathon, the Boston Globe’s “Weekend” section featured a piece titled “A playlist for your long run this weekend.” Three weeks prior to race day is when marathoners typically do a long training run, perhaps 18 or 20 miles. The idea of the Globe piece was that such a long run can be mentally as well as physically challenging. Are you really up for spending that much time putting one foot in front of the other? Would some music help you get going?

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — Griswold Memorial Library is looking for a new leader.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE — Selectboard members had transportation on their minds this week, as they considered a potential public parking bylaw, proposed roadwork from the state Department of Transportation and a resident’s request for access to his property through a municipal lot.

By BOB KATZEN

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The 44th Montague Mug Race is right around the corner, with signups ongoing for the race which is scheduled for Aug. 16.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Summer and after-school programming appears to be in jeopardy after the U.S. Department of Education announced it is withholding certain funding, including 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants, for the 2025-2026 school year.

A 21-year-old Granby man and University of Massachusetts Amherst student who was interning for U.S. Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., died Tuesday from injuries in a triple shooting in Washington, D.C.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With food insecurity rising across the state and food pantries seeing their highest number of clients since the pandemic, the public is invited to a fundraising event this weekend to support local pantries.

By CHRIS LARABEE

Half of all households in Franklin and Hampshire counties and roughly 2 million adults across the state experienced food insecurity in 2024, according to a new statewide report published by The Greater Boston Food Bank and Mass General Brigham.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

As we head into Fourth of July weekend, the summer season is in full swing.

By TSULTRIM DOLMA

I want to say happy 90th birthday to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, whose birthday is July 6. He has been my inspiration since I first went with my father on a religious pilgrimage to Lhasa, Tibet, at about age 7 in the early 1980s. It took us about three months to walk there from our village in the Khampa region of eastern Tibet. When we got inside the Jhokang Temple, I was truly amazed to see huge statues and also pictures on a wall of the Dalai Lama and other religious leaders.

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

One of the great things to celebrate about America is our tradition of generosity in feeding the hungry. We are the nation that has saved millions of lives from starvation going back decades. When there are cries for help from abroad, we take action.