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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The School Committee voted 6-1 on Saturday to appoint Monson Public Schools interim Superintendent Roland Joyal Jr. to serve as Greenfield’s interim superintendent after six candidates were interviewed over the course of the day.

By GREG VINE

ORANGE — The nationwide “No Kings Day” protests brought an estimated 600 people to Memorial Park over the weekend as residents came together to voice opposition to a range of policies under the Trump administration.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

High school softball players from Western Massachusetts have been waiting for this week for years; they will never again have to step into the batter’s box and see Greenfield’s MacKenzie Paulin, Turners Falls’ Madi Liimatainen or Franklin Tech’s Hannah Gilbert standing in the pitching circle.

SHELBURNE FALLS — Summer is here, and so is the Shelburne Falls Military Band’s concert season.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Madden Coates, Dalton Towne and Jaxon Bartlett each had two hits, Bartlett driving in four runs, to help Pipione’s Sport Shop capture the Newt Guilbault Community Baseball League championship following a 16-3 win over St. Stan’s in Game 2 of the championship series over the weekend. 

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — To mark Juneteenth this week, the Sunderland Public Library and the Human Rights Task Force are inviting the public to a film screening and discussion exploring systemic inequities in the United States that have lingered from post-Civil War society to today.

By BEN CLARKE

Good news. Inflation is basically gone, the economy is roaring, and America is “hot” again. I know this because Donald Trump said so. And he’s a man of his word. Just ask his wives. Or bankruptcy lawyers.

By JOHN BERKOWITZ

I think it’s urgent that the current negotiations end the war in Ukraine soon, even if Ukraine has to make some territorial concessions and stay out of NATO. If we keep helping Ukraine escalate — such as its recent drone attacks on Russian bases housing nuclear-armed strategic bombers, and last year’s attack on Russia’s early-warning radars that damaged three out of a total of 10 — it will only bring even more suffering and devastation to Ukraine, while risking an unimaginably worse WWIII/nuclear war with Russia.

Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution (FCCPR) would like to say thank you to all who made Saturday’s “No Kings” march and rally such an amazing experience. Three hundred and eighty-nine people signed up to attend the march through www.mobilize .com, so we expected that up to 500 might actually attend. Nearly 3,000 came out, nearly six times what we expected, a recognition of the outrage, concern, anger, and fear generated by the Trump administration’s attacks on our communities, our institutions, and our democracy.

In case you missed it, the estimated cost of the military parade held on Saturday is $45 million. That number does not include the cleanup or repairs to the damage to the roads there from the tanks and heavy military equipment. Meanwhile, 7,000 soldiers will be corralled into two unused government buildings for their visit to Washington. The New York Times reported on May 15 that the thousands of visiting soldiers in Washington for the parade will stay in unused government buildings and sleep on cots, according to the Army. The soldiers are mere pawns in Donald Trump’s vision of himself in the grand viewing stand.

6:10 p.m. — Reporting party from East Main Street states there is a child locked in a room in an apartment who has been screaming for more than an hour to be let out. Second floor, right side. Officer advising the child is fine, just overtired.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The bids are in for the 1888 Building rehabilitation project, with the lowest one coming in at roughly $5.93 million.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Thursday is June 19, also known as Juneteenth, Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, or Manumission Day.

It’s not too late to enroll in the YMCA’s summer camps.

By KARL MEYER

When Donald Trump proclaimed on the first day of his lame-duck presidency that the ancient, globally recognized Gulf of Mexico would receive his own new moniker from that day forward, I recognized what dictatorship looked like. His fundamental attack on common reality, on history, on the right to speech itself, was an opening salvo on democracy here in the United States. And places beyond. This international body of water was known to people across the globe by its centuries-old Aztec-derived name. Now, one petty soul on a planet of eight billion people was demanding all global maps be changed.

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

We don’t often discuss the war, but one day last week Olesya and I spent a few minutes doing just that. She told me with some pride about the destruction of the bridge to Crimea, which I hadn’t yet heard about. Somehow tons of explosives had been planted there. And this came on the heels of daring drone attacks on Russian air force bases. Many drones were being made by Ukrainians in their homes, she said, using 3-D printers and other easily accessible materials.

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

Those who understand, really don’t have to say anything, and never is this more self-evident than within the Boston State House. Last week, I attended the “Massachusetts Muslim Day at the State House” put on by the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and apart from the decorum, the diagonal waves of hidden intent left me reeling.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents with docks and other structures along the Lake Mattawa shoreline will have to pay a fee that goes toward the upkeep and betterment of the lake if the Selectboard’s proposed policy gets approved by town counsel.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — As a massive military parade comprising 128 U.S. Army tanks and more than 6,000 soldiers rolled through Washington, D.C. on Saturday, thousands from across Franklin County took to the streets to protest President Donald Trump in a “No Kings Day” demonstration.