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By BELLA LEVAVI

Northfield resident Annie Chappell couldn’t bear the thought of throwing away her Styrofoam. Assuming others had the same aversion, she worked to ensure community members wouldn’t have to.The community group Drawdown Montague, individual volunteers...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE CENTER — A man was arrested Sunday afternoon following a two-vehicle collision that resulted in a rollover at the intersection of Routes 47 and 63.Emergency personnel responded to reports of a vehicle rollover at around 4:20 p.m. Upon...

Saturday, March 18 4:07 p.m. — Suspicious white vehicle reported on Avenue A. Suspected drug activity.5:20 p.m. — Caller at Unity Park reports a man on the bike path asked to take pictures of her son.Sunday, March 19 12:59 p.m. — Employee at the...

By EMILY THURLOW and JULIAN MENDOZA

When digital downloads became widely available in the early 2000s and later surpassed sales of physical music, the music industry and the public had all but signed the death certificate for local record stores, resigned to the idea that music...

Discovery Center holding Jurassic Armored Mud Ball Festival TURNERS FALLS — The Great Falls Discovery Center will host an exploration of the formation and discovery of Jurassic armored mud balls, a rare, region-specific geological formation, on...

On Saturday, April 10, hundreds of children and family members from throughout Franklin County (and beyond) flocked to Unity Park to participate in Montague Parks & Recreation’s Annual Peter Cottontail’s EGGstravaganza. Children ages four to 12 were...

The Montague Cemetery Commission is coordinating a clean-up day on Saturday, April 15 at the Highland Cemetery, located at 390-398 Millers Falls Road, Rt 2.The clean-up will include the removal of dead flowers and wreathes, broken items, and debris...

By MARY BYRNE

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder has been providing regular updates on the risk level of COVID-19 transmission as wastewater testing results are received.After several weeks at a “moderate” risk level, the COVID-19 transmission risk has dropped...

In response to 1st Franklin state Rep. Natalie Blais’ assertion, Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll are now showing they care through a budget proposal that increases rural funding, I ask Rep. Blais whether western Massachusetts rural is...

I understand we need to save the planet or so I have been told by the Dems, so to do that among other things we need to drive electric with up to someone else’s $7,500. OK, so we will save the planet. How will we find the electricity to make that part...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

April, the month tax filings are due, prompts us to ponder what our income taxes pay for. Are they used to provide all citizens sufficient resources and public goods for human security and well-being — the core of our national security?How much of our...

The Franklin County Solid Waste Management District is collaborating with volunteers from the towns of Montague and Northfield to hold recycling collections for blocky Styrofoam packing material on April 8, 15, 22 and 29, from 9 a.m. to noon.These...

Easter is just a hop, skip and a jump away, and so are the annual egg hunts organized across Franklin County.New SalemThe New Salem Recreation Committee is sponsoring an egg hunt around the town common on Saturday, April 8, starting at 10 a.m. All...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The third time may be the charm for Montague’s Health Department, which will consider holding a third round of interviews to fill its health director vacancy after retracting an offer to Candaicy S. David.The health director hiring process...

FreshmenHigh Honors: Angelina Alonso, Ashlynn Andrews, Erin Banister Potter, Miguel Bartolon, Shawn Beckwith, Tristan Bliss, Samuel Bodenstein, Teagan Boliski, Camden Bonnett, Elizabeth Boudreau, Mason Brunette, Rocco Buccaroni, Dani Chagnon, Ashlyn...

By MARY BYRNE

When Mary Fraser walked into Karen Collins’ weaving workshop in Forres, Scotland, nearly a decade ago, she knew it was where she was meant to be. “It was a visceral reaction of, ‘I have to do that,’” she recalled. Fraser, now 29, and a professional...

By BART BOURICIUS

A number of recent contributions to these pages have argued that each patch of forest should be professionally managed by logging it in some way, usually by contracting with commercial loggers to do so. If private landowners want to buy into this...

“Urinetown,” the musical, a 2001 Broadway play with two Tony Awards to its credit, is being performed by the Wild Goose Players at the Bellows Falls Opera House on March 30-31, and April 1.This rural Vermont community theatre has a plethora of talent...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Family and friends will gather for a celebration of life on April 20 for Montague resident Garrett Giustina, who was killed in a single-vehicle crash along Turners Falls Road earlier this month.Giustina, 22, and formerly of South Hadley,...