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By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — As a result of an error in calculating the annual property tax rate, Charlemont is facing a $231,958 deficit in its fiscal year 2023 budget that officials plan to cover using free cash.While calculating the tax rate, officials forgot to...

By CARL DOERNER

There were those in the South who fought and lost a war over whether white-skinned people were superior to others. They also thought they were entitled to gain wealth from the labor of people they had shipped here from Africa.Defeated, some put on...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Zoning Board of Appeals has opted to continue its hearing about granting a variance for structures on Justin Maynard’s property that do not meet setback requirements, allowing him time to seek approval from the Conservation Commission...

When Donald Trump finally goes to prison, as a former president, does his Secret Service detail go with him? The guys in G-Pop should get a big kick out of someone with that much make-up and hair spray. Hopefully he’ll be treated the same way he’s...

In my youth, young people protested because they didn’t want to get killed in Vietnam. Today, they protest because they don’t want to get shot at school. Notwithstanding the descent into ever lower circles of hell that this shift represents, the...

Noble, Weisblat holding spring-themed concert CHARLEMONT — Jerry Noble and Tinky Weisblat are teaming up for a free spring-themed concert on Wednesday, April 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Charlemont Federated Church, 175 Main St. This program is sponsored...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Thanks to a state grant, the Franklin Conservation District is partnering with three towns to support pollinators, improve soil health and beautify the region by converting mowed spaces into native plant gardens and meadows.For its first year working...

I hope that the appropriate boards of the city of Greenfield will deny Aldi’s request to place a store on the northern side of Route 2, going west. This area is already dense with retail. The south side contains a mall with Big Y, Staples and a number...

By EMILEE KLEIN and LIESEL NYGARD

A new broadband network for Colrain, Charlemont, Heath, Leyden and Rowe that prevents major outages and improves the resiliency of internet access will be completed by June 30.The system creates three backhauls and a 10-gigabyte circuit connection...

By EMILEE KLEIN

CHARLEMONT — The Hawlemont Regional School District School Committee approved a $2.49 million budget last week for fiscal year 2024, which includes a Charlemont town assessment increase of 3.96% and a Hawley town assessment decrease of 4.22%.The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE — With Tuesday’s storm leaving western Franklin County towns underneath as much as 3 feet of snow, local officials have since been considering how to best prepare for future weather emergencies.The nor’easter left some residents without...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — After hearing from residents, tribal representatives and other officials on Monday, Selectboard members stated they do not intend to get involved in the discussion around changing the Native American statue at the Native and Himalayan...

Call me a masochist, but I have managed to read in succession Agnes Newton Keith’s account of her life in a Japanese prison camp and Wladyslaw [The Pianist] Szpilman’s account of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their stories have made me acutely aware that...

By CARL DOERNER

In the U.S., the term imperialism is used mainly to describe the behavior of others, like the British, but it has been alive here in the U.S. throughout our history.In February 1941, Time and Life magazines publisher Henry Luce launched criticism of...

I’ve been following with interest the fate of the statue outside the Native and Himalayan Views shop on Route 2 in Charlemont. I love kitschy folk art and found it humorous, but in reality a Cigar Store Indian as advertisement is not any more...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Local Indigenous representatives have further affirmed their desire to modify or remove the large statue of an American Indian outside the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop after hearing a suggestion to preserve it while installing...

“I used to think I needed some sort of insight or expertise, but it turns out I only need to string a bunch of words together” from Dilbert in the Recorder on Feb. 27, to me sums up what is happening to speech.We need to laugh at ourselves. The loss...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Jonathan Mirin and Godeliève Richard, artistic directors of Piti Theatre Co., have been taunted by the barn across from their house for years.“It’s hard to run a theater company and live across the street from a barn and not want to make...

Feb. 25: Music, storytelling show at HawlemontCHARLEMONT — Tyler Memorial Library and the Charlemont-Hawley Arts Council are offering a program with musician and storyteller John Porcino at Hawlemont Regional School on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m.The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — School and town officials have sent Gov. Maura Healey a letter urging her to fund an annual appropriation of $60 million directed entirely at rural and declining-enrollment schools.“Now is the time to act. The state has considerable...