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By JON HUER

Nowadays, you ought to feel like Rip Van Winkle: If you had gone to sleep on Trump’s Inauguration Day and woke up today, you wouldn’t recognize your own America you see. What used to be a slow, boring continental drift in political affairs is now an avalanche every day.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

As Greenfield’s All Souls Church congregation gears up to celebrate its 200th anniversary with a day of worship and celebration, lunch and music on May 18, Chair of Worship Kate Mason and Membership and Heritage Committee member Russ Pirkot discussed the ever-changing role Unitarianism brought the for those wishing to break free from more restrictive religions.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee members voted 4-2 to provide a resolution to City Council requesting that $350,000 be added to the School Department’s fiscal year 2026 budget as Mayor Ginny Desorgher maintains her commitment to a conservative budget amid rising insurance costs and uncertain state and federal funding.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A former Leyden police chief must pay $10,950 in restitution after having been found in possession of town-owned equipment received through a program that transfers excess military equipment to nonmilitary law enforcement agencies.

GREENFIELD — Dogs and their human companions will unite on Sunday, May 18, at 11 a.m. for the annual Mutts and Mayhem obstacle course at the Green River Swimming and Recreation Area. All proceeds benefit Paws Park on Petty Plain Road.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The city will host its 15th annual Bee Fest on Saturday, featuring the unveiling of the city’s first bee sculpture to be stationed at the Big E festival this summer.

Oil is polluting our land. It’s making it so that it’s hard to grow crops in some places, and also because it’s polluting our rivers, and it’s causing global warming.

I think we should protect our oceans because the sea animals are eating the trash, and some are dying. One thing I think would help is using cardboard containers instead of plastic ones.

Mosquitoes, fruit flies, lovebugs, and cockroaches all have something in common. They are all bugs. Or I could say, all humans kill them. I think that killing bugs is wrong because, first of all, some bugs are pollinators and pollinate our plants, and second of all, the spiders eat these bugs and it keeps them alive. So, in my opinion, you should never, ever kill bugs.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Six Franklin County businesses have benefited from a series of Biz-M-Power grants awarded by MassDevelopment’s Growth Capital Division, with a total of $779,397 being distributed to 62 small businesses across the state.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Fire service leaders from across the region viewed footage of battery storage facilities, electric scooters and electric vehicles combusting into flames on Tuesday, broadening their knowledge of the unique challenges associated with extinguishing battery fires.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — It’s the end of an era for local agriculture, as Butynski’s Farm Stand has ceased operations following the retirement of the four people in charge of it.

By SHERYL HUNTER

For music fans, there is nothing better than enjoying music in the great outdoors, and we are about to have that experience when the StrangeCreek Campout kicks off festival season on Memorial Day weekend. The StrangeCreek Campout, now in its 21st year, will take place at Camp Kee-wanee in Greenfield, from May 23 to 26. Presented by Wormtown Trading Co. out of Worcester, this weekend festival features camping and music from over 60 bands performing on three stages, along with late-night shows in cabins in the woods.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) fueled cyclists and pedestrians Tuesday morning, continuing its Bay State Bike Month tradition of the Bike Breakfast for the 12th year.

I know you probably don’t want to listen, but listen to this. Stop using cars, they created climate change, which means oceans can rise. I mean they are rising. Why do cars make pollution? They use gas, which pollutes the air. My opinion: I think if we start using electric cars and walk or bike when it’s nice out and you aren’t hurt, then we could slow down climate change, which means no ice melting!

In the NFL, teams know by Monday why they lost the game. It’s been a little over six months, and the Democrats still don’t understand why they lost.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A new playground awaits campers when Camp Kee-wanee opens for the summer on June 30.

Benjamin Franklin started the first public library in Philadelphia in 1731. He borrowed books from the well-to-do and put them in one place. Lenders take the books for a fee. Any damage/loss would have to be paid.

If we keep polluting the world will turn into trash itself. If you think that trash is great, think about 1,050,625 years into the future. The world will be trash for sure. Stop polluting, it’s not good to do. That’s not the way to safety.

When you don’t clean up your dog’s poop over time it will become nitrogen and if it rains the dog poop will flow into the river and if it’s in the river it will flow into the ocean and kill the animals and pollute all of the water including drinking water.