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By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — With a once-in-a-decade practice having been carried out, it was a noteworthy year at Jay Healy’s Hall Tavern Farm.The roughly 350 acres owned by Healy’s family is the site of the oldest operational certified tree farm in the state....

Hawlemont students spearhead food driveCHARLEMONT — As a community service project, the Hawlemont Regional School 4-H Clubs have organized a food drive to benefit the Charlemont Good Neighbors Food Pantry. Three baskets located throughout the school...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The day before the deadline to pay taxes owed on the historic building, Charlemont Inn owner Charlotte Dewey filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy for a second time, thus stalling the foreclosure process. Dewey indicated she has potential...

Carl Doerner’s recent column [“History happening behind the scenes,” Recorder, Nov. 27] along with recent critiques of Henry Kissinger’s reign, recalls the days of what Bill Moyers called “the secret government,” when a coup d’etat, as the Kennedy...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Walking through the woods in late autumn with the Coates brothers is an eye-opening experience. “Look here,” said Brandin Coates, 42, crouching to brush leaves aside. “A doe was here within the last day or so.” When asked how he detected footprints...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Massachusetts Forest Alliance, a Marlborough-based organization that advocates for a strong, sustainable local forest economy, has honored two Franklin County land stewards for their notable work in the industry. With nearly 80% of the county...

By CARL DOERNER

Back before succumbing to fame, poet and folksong creator Bob Dylan wrote a ballad about how people are used by the powerful titled “Only a Pawn in Their Game.” The subject — the rifle shot in darkness by a white man taking the life of Black civil...

Thank you, Daniel Brown, for your Nov. 15 column [“Hypocrisy Now! The American left and Israel”].In addition to the double standards and hypocrisy, there is the matter of our historical ignorance that he addressed.I feel like the old farmer Wang Lung...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The butcher is back.Avery’s General Store has partnered with Heath’s Freeman Farm to bring hand-cut butchering back to the store after a five-year hiatus. Customers can now come to the meat counter and buy cuts of local grass-fed beef....

Dec. 2: Author Joan Livingston talk CHARLEMONT — Shelburne Falls author Joan Livingston will talk about her writing experience including her latest novel, “Northern Comfort,” on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. at Tyler Memorial Library. Like most of...

Historical Society selling calendars BUCKLAND — The Buckland Historical Society’s 2024 calendar of Robert Strong Woodward’s paintings, titled “Rugged New England,” is now available for $20.The calendars can be purchased at Andy’s & The Oak Shoppe, 352...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Published author, professional organizer and designer Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson’s biggest piece of advice about getting your house organized is to stop buying bins. Tomlinson visited the Tyler Memorial Library last month for an event sponsored by the...

After reading of all the bad news happening in the world, I was overjoyed to read in the Nov. 4 Recorder of the efforts of the students in Cherilyn Bulger’s Essential Skills class at Greenfield High School, who are raising money for the Wounded...

As a fiscal conservative, I was delighted to see the success of the BEACON Learning Program [“Giving students a beacon of hope” Recorder, Nov. 4]. Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Most people look for solutions,...

Nov. 8 school talk to center on life choicesBUCKLAND — The Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts are inviting the community to gather for a talk on life choices led by Ron L. James in the auditorium of Mohawk Trail Regional School on...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that we have school shootings because parents no longer teach their children the difference between right and wrong. Yet Mr. Johnson played a key role in the House’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. Say again —...

By SHERRILL HOGEN

On Oct. 7, Palestinian militants burst out of Gaza and invaded Israel. They broke through fences and walls built by Israel to keep them out — or rather to keep them in.To keep them inside Gaza, under surveillance and deprived of control over their...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — If we take down monuments and there is no physical record of their having existed, would we forget about the past? How can we use historical objects to see how we came to that juncture in time and to inform where we need to go in the...

By CARL DOERNER

Early in his leadership of Blacks for civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Riot is the language of the unheard.” While those protests were nonviolent, the phrase has evolved to “violence is the language of the unheard.” As an historian...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Although the town opted against updating its cell tower bylaws at the request of resident Jonathan Mirin in 2021, the Planning Board may discuss the topic on Thursday.Mirin is a Charlemont resident and co-founder of Hilltown Health, an...