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By LIESEL NYGARD

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder is publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their communities in 2024.As 2024 gets underway, multiple towns in northern Franklin County are set on bolstering...

By CHRIS LARABEE

LEYDEN — With the town having achieved an intermunicipal policing agreement, a growing Fire Department and an ambulance contract, Leyden’s Public Safety Advisory Committee officially dissolved in December, just three days from its two-year...

Two Happy Feet walks plannedNORTHFIELD — The Happy Feet walking group has two walks planned this month.On Monday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m., walkers will meet at the Turners Falls canalside access road leading to Cabot Station. The walk is flat and great for...

Monthly puzzle swap planned for Saturday, Jan. 6 NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.Attendees are advised to park in the back and enter through the side door of the...

By LIESEL NYGARD

LEYDEN — By recruiting members, acquiring more gear and creating plans to purchase a new truck, Leyden’s Fire Department has become “a success story.” At the beginning of 2023, Fire Chief Nikolas Adamski stood alone as the only member of the town’s...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Leyden Recreation Department decks the streets with boughs of holly for the Christmas program it hosts annually, partnering with the Leyden Firefighters Association and the library for some seasonal fun.Since the beginning of the pandemic these...

By CHRIS LARABEE

LEYDEN — After a year of work and walkthroughs, members of the town’s Building Needs Study Committee have presented their list of immediate and essential repairs needed for town properties.In all, the board has identified about $351,000 in needed...

Bishop William Byrne’s Dec. 6 guest column “A message of welcome to the LGBTQ+ community” is disingenuous in the extreme. He and a group called Catholics for Inclusion have met “to discuss how the Catholic churches in our area can become genuinely...

By DOMENIC POLI

LEYDEN — The Leyden United Methodist Church has taken its lumps in the past few years, and parishioners hope a holiday craft fair, paired with a crowdfunding campaign, can help raise the money needed to keep the doors open.The craft fair is scheduled...

By RHONDA WAINSHILBAUM

This is a scary time to be Jewish. Our world turned upside down on Oct. 7. Innocent Israelis were brutally murdered while their Hamas assassins happily filmed the torture of children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.We...

Monthly puzzle swap planned for Saturday, Dec. 2 NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.Attendees are advised to park in the back and enter through the side door of the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Just days after more than 40 town officials, school representatives and other stakeholders convened to consider what regionalization of the Gill-Montague and Pioneer Valley regional school districts might entail, the Pioneer School...

Winery event to mark 11th anniversaryNORTHFIELD — To celebrate its 11th anniversary, Cameron’s Winery at 1046 Millers Falls Road will host a Wine, Cider and Brews Dinner Pirate Party on Saturday, Nov. 18, starting at 7 p.m.Greenfield’s El Greco...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Ahead of this week’s second public forum on facilities planning, the consulting company leading the process briefed the Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee on its initial survey data.At the School Committee’s Oct. 26...

By MARY BYRNE

NORTHFIELD — After a review of four years worth of financial data for the Pioneer Valley Regional School District, officials recommended Thursday that the district return $740,214 to its three member towns, decreasing the overall assessment compared...

Monthly puzzle swap planned for Saturday NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.Attendees are advised to park in the back and enter through the side door of the library....

By BELLA LEVAVI

LEYDEN — Late in life, Trueman Robbins became a community fixture at Robertson Memorial Library.Serving as a library trustee, Robbins became the unofficial greeter at the tiny Greenfield Road building. Faithfully accompanied by his “library dog”...

Beginning Oct. 7, more than 1,200 Israelis were brutally massacred by hundreds of Hamas fighters pouring over the border from Gaza towards the Israeli communities in southwest Israel. They went house to house, shooting and stabbing all in their path....

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I recently ventured into the lovely town of Leyden to serve as the host (and a fan) of a chili cook-off. The cook-off was part of Readyfest, a day-long celebration of emergency preparedness spearheaded by Leyden’s Emergency Management Committee.I...