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By RANDY KEHLER

My partner Betsy and I have often been referred to, usually derisively, as “tax resisters,” or “tax refusers,” which implies that we are people who refuse to pay all taxes, across the board. In fact, we’ve always paid all of our state and local taxes....

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — At 15 years old, Shelburne Falls resident Martín Espada, now a nationally renowned poet, wrote his first poem.At the time, he had no idea it would become the first poem in a lifelong body of work. It was simply a writing assignment for an...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club will welcome ornithologist Mara Silver for a free talk on the natural history and conservation of native birds of our meadows.The program, which is open to the public, will be held Wednesday,...

Intersection sewer work startingSHELBURNE FALLS — GEG Associates plans to start sewer work at the intersection of Bridge and Main streets during the week of April 10.Precast concrete structures will be delivered on Monday and stored along the edge of...

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 BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Bridge of Flowers will open for the season on Saturday, April 1, weather permitting. “Once the gates are open, people can walk across and enjoy watching the wonderful plants come up this spring,” said Carol Angus, co-chair of the...

SHELBURNE FALLS — Franklin Land Trust will kick off National Poetry Month with a poetry reading at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, located at 53 Main St., on Saturday, April 1.The reading, dubbed “Plein Air: Poetry of Nature, Environment and...

Kiwanis Club holding Sugar on Snow Supper SHELBURNE FALLS — The Shelburne Falls Kiwanis Club will host its annual Sugar on Snow Supper at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center on Saturday, with servings at 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets for the event are $15...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Arms Library Trustees are looking to address three issues the 60 Bridge St. library is facing, two of which involve capital projects while the other entails changing the funding formula by which Buckland and Shelburne contribute...

Feb. 25: Music, storytelling show at HawlemontCHARLEMONT — Tyler Memorial Library and the Charlemont-Hawley Arts Council are offering a program with musician and storyteller John Porcino at Hawlemont Regional School on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m.The...

The recent letter by forester Joe Zorzin criticizes Gov. Maura Healey’s planned moratorium on logging in state-owned forests (“The forestry wars,” Recorder, Feb. 14). He notes that “policymakers do not appreciate the full complexity of forests.” I...

SHELBURNE FALLS — Minor damage and no injuries resulted from a fire on Mechanic Street Sunday evening. Shelburne Falls Fire District responded at around 6:25 p.m. on Sunday to 54 Mechanic St., where firefighters found “light smoke from the eaves and...

By MARY BYRNE and JULIAN MENDOZA

The Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) will contract consulting services to pursue downtown development across the county with help from a $171,000 grant.The grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — A “Sled Zeppelin” decal will be seen on the side of a state Department of Transportation snowplow this winter, thanks to the creativity of two Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School students.In its first statewide competition, MassDOT...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Now that two village projects have received a $50,000 Commonwealth Places grant from MassDevelopment, residents are seeking donations to fund the required grant match.The projects involve expanding the mosaic murals featured on...

Salmon Falls Gallery reopens SHELBURNE FALLS — The Salmon Falls Gallery at 1 Ashfield St. reopened its doors on Jan. 19 following a winter break. The gallery will be open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.“We are fully...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge has taken under advisement two motions to dismiss filed by the defense attorney representing a former Bernardston and Buckland police officer who faces 10 child pornography charges.Judge Jane...

I was shocked to read the column, Earthtalk, in the Greenfield Recorder on Jan. 9. In a full column, from the top to the bottom of the page, Earthtalk was supposed to answer the question “Why isn’t the government limiting plastics?”At no place in the...