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As the weather turns and the spring flowers bloom, you may be thinking of picking up a new outdoor activity and I hope golf is at the top of that list. While long considered a sport for the elites in country clubs, recent research by the National Golf Foundation has reported some encouraging new trends. The number of golf trials has hit record or near-record levels in recent years, with 3 million or more on-course beginners starting every year since 2020.

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.

SHELBURNE FALLS — Alumni are advised that if they did not receive the notification about the Arms Academy Association Reunion, to contact Marlene Peck Field at 7 Laurel St., Shelburne Falls, MA 01370 or 413-834-1106.

BERNARDSTON — The Bernardston Unitarian Meetinghouse will host a Jazz Night on Saturday, May 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. featuring Harborside Jazz, a trio of musicians from Cape Ann, as well as a talk by Bernardston filmmaker Rawn Fulton about his still photo works that are on display at the meetinghouse.

By DOMENIC POLI

MONTAGUE — Voters adopted the Annual Town Meeting warrant’s final 14 articles on Wednesday after having deliberated on the initial 17 articles on May 7.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A new effort to address food insecurity and generate community connection is taking root in Whately.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — Voters have elected Emma Coburn to be the new town clerk.

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.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — After the procedure for using the new electronic voting system clicked with Erving voters, all 27 articles on the Annual Town Meeting warrant were approved.

By MICHAEL SEWARD

Amherst College blithely contributed to the housing shortage in Amherst. That was the takeaway of a recent Gazette article about the liberal arts college’s request to demolish two historic properties, which, according to the article, was purchased to prevent a housing development by outbidding private housing developers with $4.3 million in 2003. It’s an astonishing case of wealth and privilege preventing the construction of much-needed housing, regardless of the detriment to others, while irresponsibly allowing two historic homes to fall into a state of disrepair.

Most of us will become disabled at some point in our lives. Whether through accident, illness, or simply old age, we will all join the largest minority in the U.S. For decades, institutionalization was standard for people with disabilities. Conditions were commonly squalid, overcrowded, and abusive.When the deinstitutionalization movement gained momentum in the 1960s and 70s, we developed support systems to help people with disabilities live on their own.

There is no doubt that Oct. 7 was brutal and demoralizing for the Israelis. What was especially shocking was that Palestinians finally fought back. It took them 75 years to retaliate, but they finally did. Before 1948, the land that is now called Israel was called Palestine, even when under various empires’ control. But after 500 Palestinian villages were massacred and 750,000 Palestinians were driven off their land and out of their homes by predominantly European-origin Zionist forces, it took the Palestinians (not Arab countries) 75 years to mount a serious retaliation. How dare they? Don’t they know their place? Didn’t the decades-long brutal occupation teach them anything?

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 ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — To commemorate the 349th anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre and the 21st anniversary of the 2004 reconciliation ceremony, the annual Day of Remembrance gathering will be held on the lawn behind the Great Falls Discovery Center on Saturday, May 17.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — Residents are set to vote on two contested races in this year’s town election on Saturday, May 17, that will determine if there will be new faces on the Selectboard and Finance Committee.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Marina Goldman of Montague Center is running a write-in campaign for a three-year seat on the Montague Selectboard, and declared her candidacy on May 2.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is proposing to repeal a law put in place by voters as part of a worldwide nuclear freeze movement, a bid to open the door to greater deployment of newer nuclear energy facilities as part of a push to save ratepayers $10 billion over a decade.