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Folks on Plain Road East must be getting pretty desperate if they are concerned about the noise from the proposed dog shelter. Hey, come my way. Now we have almost continual concerts about a mile away at the brewery and they play til 10 or 11 p.m. Good if you don’t work or like rock and roll and maybe if you don’t have little kids who need their sleep, like the neighbors.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Giving Circle Thrift Shop at 3 Sugarloaf St. will close at the end of the month and is offering a closing sale, as it tries to empty its inventory.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Brenda Bialecki, 60, formerly of South Deerfield, was sentenced to two years probation and must pay $13,600 in restitution after she pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon to single counts of Medicaid false claims, larceny over $1,200 and Medicaid kickbacks.

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 CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The few hundred feet of undeveloped land between Industrial Drive West in Deerfield and Fairview Way in Whately, which separates the two communities’ industrial parks, was once jokingly referred to as the “DMZ,” or demilitarized zone, by Whately’s former police chief in 1995.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The town’s zoning bylaw is clear: a special permit is required for any use that creates noise perceptible more than 200 feet from the property line.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Two juveniles are being referred to Greenfield Juvenile Court for allegedly stealing two vehicles and crashing one into a River Road home on Sunday afternoon.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — For many Bikes Fight Cancer cyclists, they are riding in honor of friends or family members who have battled the disease that has touched the lives of so many people.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The town’s search for a developer to create affordable senior housing on the former St. James Church property will continue.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Deerfield Academy has reached a “low six-figure settlement” with another sexual abuse victim of longtime teacher Peter G. Hindle.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Despite persistent rain showers, 92 Frontier Regional High School seniors graduated on Friday and were encouraged to break barriers.

By CHRIS LARABEE

As the national art and celebrity worlds coalesced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala in early May, the exhibition coinciding with the event at the nation’s most-visited museum also featured several local ties.

By JOHN CARNEY

Proponents of Death with Dignity legislation in Massachusetts are heartened by positive feedback in the current session of the State House. At the present time, 10 states, and Washington D.C., have laws which allow terminally ill patients the legal option to end their lives with a physician-issued prescription. Massachusetts is not one of those states.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With a late-arriving elevator, Tilton Library’s expected completion date has been moved to August.

By SAM FERLAND

DEERFIELD — Deerfield Academy’s 207 graduates were urged to be who they are, fearlessly, by a commencement speaker who seized the opportunity of a lifetime.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — As the school looks to bring more language learning opportunities to students, three soon-to-be Frontier Regional School graduates have taken an extra step to showing off their language skills.

WHATELY — The Whately Congregational Church’s food drive for veterans continues through the town’s Memorial Day celebration.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The gravestones of veterans received some extra attention from students this week ahead of the community’s annual Memorial Day ceremonies.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The mother of Meaghan Burns, a South Deerfield resident and U.S. Navy corpsman who was murdered in 2019, is bringing back a 5K walk and run this Memorial Day weekend to honor fallen American service members.

I had to laugh when I read about the protest from the neighbors on Plain Road East in South Deerfield about the traffic concerns and noise. We also live in South Deerfield on a street with three houses and get over 1,000 cars, trucks, buses, and farm vehicles daily plus we have noisy AMTRAK.