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ORANGE — An Orange District Court judge sentenced Athol resident Gregory J. Batchelor to 18 months in jail on Wednesday following a conviction on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old, according to the Northwestern...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

ERVING — Gateway Regional School District’s curriculum director, the principal at Athol Community Elementary School, and the director of assessment and accountability for the Westfield Public School District are the finalists to become the next...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — One of the five North Quabbin residents facing charges of kidnapping and other crimes stemming from an alleged incident last February has had nine of her charges dismissed while other charges, and all those of her co-defendants, remain in...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With an eye toward increasing climate resilience and reducing public safety risk, preliminary design studies to examine the removal of three dams in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region are being backed by funding from the state Department of...

By THE REV. CANDI ASHENDEN

We are now right in the middle of the Advent season and also in the middle of the frenzied holiday rush. We are trying desperately to find the joy in the season as we shop for gifts, or help others out, or begin to consider baking special treats, or...

ATHOL — The Athol Bird and Nature Club’s 2024 calendar, filled with nature notes, trivia questions and photos of local birds, animals and plants, is now available.The “Birds and Nature of the North Quabbin” 2024 calendar focuses on the beauty of the...

I don’t often agree with columnist Jon Huer. I have to agree his recent column was spot on [“Pictures without words,” Recorder, Dec. 2]. Without dialogue one does not know what the image is trying to say. An image can conjure up a multitude of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man will remain free another week before serving time in county jail after pleading guilty to eight charges stemming from a domestic incident involving a firearm on April 30, 2022.Timothy Chandler, 37, had his sentence stayed...

By MAX BOWEN

A handful of Franklin County and North Quabbin organizations were among the recipients in the latest round of workforce development planning grants from the state, including an Athol-based organization aiming to develop a program to train those who...

By DOMENIC POLI

Heather Taylor knows how it feels to be a child waking up to zero gifts on Christmas morning.The 38-year-old Athol resident grew up in Spencer, in a household with parents “who chose their addiction over buying presents for me, or my brother or my...

Thanks to the Department of Public Works for the great job on replacing old pieces of sidewalk on Orange Street. Under the crunch of Halloween and winter, the men worked hard and cleaned up afterwards leaving a safe, and level surface to use. Thanks...

It seems quite remarkable that a government may allow the life of an unborn to be arbitrarily terminated and disallows an adult to consciously and knowingly choose to end one’s suffering and very existence. Instead, an adult who would choose to...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ATHOL — Five people were transported to Athol Hospital with minor injuries on Friday night after a tractor involved in hayrides crashed near Silver Lake.Athol Police and Fire departments were dispatched to the crash at around 7:45 p.m., according to a...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A group of North Quabbin women have worked their fingers to the bone to help the Ukrainian people stand up for their country.The Dragonfly Sock Knitters joined forces with a Pennsylvania knitting group to craft about 190 pairs of wool socks...

I recently read the letter to the editor trying to make the people of Athol feel guilty for voting down the hiring of eight new firemen and would like to provide the information that was left out [“Second thoughts on firefighters,” Athol Daily News,...

By JULIAN MENDOZA, BELLA LEVAVI, MARY BYRNE and MAX BOWEN

Gill Elementary School and Petersham Center School have emerged as two of the state’s 66 strongest-performing schools relative to MCAS test taking, while 10 others in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region have been classified as “requiring...

By MITCHELL R. GROSKY

Although certain Americans who receive their daily news from television and social media may not realize it, President Joe Biden has already accomplished an incredible amount in his two-plus years in office. These accomplishments are of great...