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By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — After decades of exhibiting on the second floor of the iconic Roundhouse at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, limited mobility in recent years prevented retired Roundhouse Superintendent Kathy Halberg from accessing the space. “Before, I’d...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Nine Franklin County Technical School students embraced last week’s national FFA Convention and Expo as an invaluable opportunity to connect with agriculturally inclined youth from all over the country.FFA, which originally stood for...

By DAN CROWLEY

GREENFIELD — As winter draws near, the Warm the Children fundraising drive is once again preparing to supply coats and clothing to children in need in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.Warm the Children was started by the Greenfield...

By BELLA LEVAVI

TURNERS FALLS — By connecting with women working in trades on Friday, Franklin County Technical School’s freshmen girls had the chance to consider what career paths might be right for them, potentially in a traditionally male-dominated field.Gathered...

By BELLA LEVAVI

GREENFIELD — Business leaders came together at the monthly Franklin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Friday morning to discuss how they can continue to support the region’s farmers amid the increasing challenges they face. With about 830 farms...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

This past July, I was flying home from visiting family back East and was about to board the final leg from Atlanta to Albuquerque. In the gangway leading to our aircraft, I noticed a gaggle of teenage girls talking loudly and enthusiastically, waving...

By DOMENIC POLI and JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — A 32-year-old man accused of causing a head-on crash on Route 2 that resulted in serious injuries to a Rhode Island family of four has had his pretrial conditions of release amended in regards to his right to drive.Massachusetts...

The Franklin County Solid Waste Management District will hold its fall “Clean Sweep” Bulky Waste Recycling Day on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at three locations. The bulky waste drop-off sites are Mohawk Trail Regional School at 26 Ashfield...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A recent Home & Garden column featured Supreme Microgreens, a burgeoning home business founded this year by two UMass Amherst students in their early 20s. It seems fitting, then, that today’s spotlight is on a Deerfield-based company founded 30 years...

By DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — Franklin County Technical School has received a seven-figure grant to continue providing free technical education to adults through a program launched last year.Superintendent Richard Martin said the $1.18 million state Career...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

Back during the civil rights era, a certain billboard began to appear across the rural South. It showed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sitting with an integrated group, apparently listening to a lecture. The caption underneath proclaimed in big, bold...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Ashfield man pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to drug and firearms charges on Wednesday, two years after his arrest in the Big Y Plaza parking lot.Justin R. Page, 30, changed his plea regarding one count of unlawful...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The New Hampshire man accused of impersonating a police officer in a decommissioned cruiser in June pleaded not guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Wednesday after his charges were transferred from Greenfield District Court due to...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Hundreds of people meandered through Franklin County’s YMCA to the gymnasium on Tuesday for the free clothing store, now in its second year since a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Shoppers browsed a collection of donated clothing...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter could potentially find a new home next to the Police Station on Route 2, per preliminary Selectboard discussions this week.According to Trish Howells, who serves on the Friends of the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Orange man who lied about how his girlfriend got shot in their bedroom will spend the next 3½ to 5½ years in state prison after changing his plea in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.Conan J. Gentile, 52, pleaded...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With the implementation of statewide centralized screening, the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority hopes to see improvement in the filling of its public housing units.This service, which is being provided by the Lawrence-based...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Springfield man accused of shooting a man in Turners Falls and fleeing the scene last month has been denied a reduced bail and will remain held as dangerous until around Dec. 25, when his $100,000 bail will go into effect.Gil Viera,...

By JONATHAN MIRIN

On Aug. 13, 2021 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found the Federal Communication Commission guilty of ignoring 11,000 pages of submitted scientific evidence about harms to children and the environment from exposure to wireless...