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By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — Residents passed most of the 31-article Annual Town Meeting warrant on Saturday, with the exception of the Mohawk Trail Regional School District regional agreement amendments and the purchase of a new truck for the Highway Department.During...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — After learning of the poor condition of the Route 8A bridge over West Branch Brook during routine inspections, the state Department of Transportation is now accepting public comments regarding a $6 million bridge replacement...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — Cuts to the Highway Department may inspire discussion on the Annual Town Meeting floor on Saturday, when voters will be asked to consider the proposed $1.53 million operating budget for fiscal year 2024.Town Meeting, which will take up a...

By DIANE STOWE and WILLIAM DROUIN

Once again, the tone-deaf Heath Select Board has made a counterintuitive decision that will impact every resident in town without soliciting the input of the town residents. We are sitting here in stunned disbelief after learning that the Select Board...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — This year’s annual town election features a new candidate running for Selectboard, as well as contested races for constable and a two-year Planning Board position.Polls will be open at the Heath Municipal Building on Friday, May 5, from noon...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The third time proved to be the charm for Brian DeVriese.While a member of the Conservation Commission, DeVriese decided in the late 1990s that he wanted to do more to serve Heath. He ran unsuccessfully for Selectboard twice before being voted...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee has asked its eight member towns to add three articles to each of their Annual Town Meeting warrants that would amend the town assessment formula outlined in the regional agreement. However,...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — More than 30 people gathered in the Heath municipal building’s cafeteria on Thursday to protest the layoff of a Highway Department laborer/operator in the wake of budgetary concerns.“Do you think I made this decision so 30 people can sit there...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — Citing budgetary concerns, the Selectboard has eliminated one laborer/operator position from the Highway Department.“This is the hardest decision I’ve had to make in my 24 years on the board,” Selectboard member Brian DeVriese said during...

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 BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — Selectboard Chair Robyn Provost-Carlson described trying to rename the building at 18 Jacobs Road for the second time as trying to point out a cat without being able to use the word “cat.” “It’s hard to come up with a name,” Provost-Carlson...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — After a year of deliberation, town officials have agreed to pay $44,443 to the Mohawk Trail Regional School District for a fiscal year 2022 assessment error.“The Selectboard and Finance Committee have decided they will pay the amount the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

HEATH — Community Hall remains closed after a broken pipe flooded the facility and damaged the sink cabinet, tile floor and the elevator pit earlier this month. While the leaks have been repaired and the elevator is operational, the floor on the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The Selectboard has decided not to go forward with participating in a community forum on naming the former school turned municipal offices at 18 Jacobs Road, a topic that inspired angry emails from at least 30 residents.“We decided at this...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Heath man was sentenced to five years in jail on Tuesday for trying to “hunt down” two of his friends in the woods while intoxicated in October 2020.Olin D. Schwenger-Sartz, 39, will serve consecutive 2½-year sentences at the Franklin...

Colrain student named to Castleton Dean’s List COLRAIN — Sarah Herzig of Colrain was named to the Dean’s List at Castleton University in Vermont for the fall 2022 semester.She previously attended Mohawk Trail Regional School and is the daughter of Ken...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Two Open Meeting Law complaints were filed with the Attorney General’s Office this month regarding government business in western Franklin County communities.One complaint was filed by Buckland resident Janet Sinclair against her town’s Conservation...

By VIRGINIA RAY

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder has been publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2023. Details about projects in the western part of the county were shared in two parts. This...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The Selectboard is going back to the drawing board in the process of renaming the former school turned municipal offices, after receiving roughly 30 emails from residents denouncing the board’s decision to call it the “Heath Community...

By PAUL FRANZ

HEATH — Deirdre Gleason was driving home to 161 Colrain Stage Road with her boyfriend and two young children when she noticed a column of smoke.“Oh my God, what’s going on?” she exclaimed.Her home was not on fire, but the adjacent standalone studio...