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So this past week, on Nov. 27, the recycling truck refused to pick up my cardboard boxes. I caught them while they were going down the other side of the street and asked why. I was told that because I stacked my cardboard boxes inside of another...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With bodies of water receding and brush fires throughout the state, it was clearly a dry fall for the Pioneer Valley and new data analysis confirms the season was historically dry for western Massachusetts.Preliminary National Weather Service data for...

Monday, Nov. 412:48 p.m. — Larceny reported on Oak Hill Acres. Services rendered.2:04 p.m. — Threat reported at Federal Street School. Report issued.3:58 p.m. — Larceny reported on Lincoln Street. Services rendered.7:22 p.m. — Heriberto Carmona, 69,...

By AMALIA WOMPA

GREENFIELD — Building off the longstanding tradition of the tree lighting ceremony and the days when Santa would visit the now-closed Wilson’s Department Store, the Greenfield Business Association (GBA) has been adding to the holiday cheer with its...

By ROB PECK

Our society, and our community, are at a crossroads. Do we decry our country’s deep divisions and bemoan our personal differences? Do we seek common ground, pool our resources and play to people’s strengths? (Details at 11!) Culture wars separate and...

According to a Nov. 22 article, the Board of Assessors report they have discovered 91 businesses(?) in Precinct 5 in Greenfield that had not been billed — for who knows how long — for personal property taxes, according to the language of their finding...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With just dozens of the more than 1,000 items placed on the Greenfield Common remaining as of Monday afternoon, The Scarf Project’s seventh annual donation of scarves, mittens and other warm clothing proved to be another success.Each year...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Changing Lives Though Literature, an alternative sentencing option that offers those on probation reduced sentences upon completion of a 10-week literature program, is inspiring many of its graduates to pursue higher education.The program...

Dec. 10: Cookie Tasting & Recipe Exchange GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Public Library invites the community to participate in its annual Holiday Cookie Tasting & Recipe Exchange on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m. The program is intended for ages 14 and...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

Gov. Maura Healey signed the Statewide Accelerated Public Health for Every Community (SAPHE 2.0) bill in late November on the coattails of a $4 billion economic development bond bill. Now roughly four years in the making, local health officials say...

We are confused. We cannot decide whether this Trump’s new government is an evolutionary continuation of American politics (alternating between Republicans and Dems) or a revolutionary break from the past (as some call it, Trump’s “hostile...

By ALLEN WOODS

In the weeks since the gut punch of Donald Trump’s reelection, The Boston Globe reports that some fervent supporters of Kamala Harris have fully retreated from the political arena — an area which now feels like the Roman Colosseum where slaves and...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The regional human services organization Behavioral Health Network Inc. has begun a new 16-bed addiction and mental health rehabilitation program for women at its Kenwood Street location.“Recovery is never a one-size-fits-all approach,”...

By MARA MELLITS

Expanding access to methadone, a medication used to fight opioid addiction, is imperative in the effort to curb the nation’s substance use disorder epidemic, regional officials say.Their comments come in response to a recent study published by the...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — With the telecommunications company Viridi Wireless scheduled to present its application to build a 170-foot monopole cell tower on Newton Street before the Zoning Board of Appeals next month, a group of residents neighboring the site are...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College will use $96,323 in grant funding to plan training programs in the fields of clean energy and weatherization technology.Out of a roughly $2 million pool of Equity Workforce Planning and Capacity Grants awarded...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

More than 200 children darted energetically from the starting line at Bernardston Elementary School on Wednesday morning to take part in the community’s longstanding turkey trot tradition.As fifth graders held hand-drawn mile-marker signs, a stampede...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — After a year off, the Franklin County Festival of Trees is returning this year with a new venue and a glowing partnership.The annual fundraising event is coming to the Roundhouse at the Franklin County Fairgrounds and will run alongside...