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By BELLA LEVAVI

Traveling around the country on his motorcycle, Lou Wallach sees nature like no one else. Thirteen hanging framed prints and 22 unframed works of Wallach’s black-and-white photography will be on display at Salmon Falls Gallery, located at 1 Ashfield...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Outgrowing the Car Barn built in 2016, the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is expanding so that it can store more trolleys in its facilities.The expansion will increase its already existing 40 by 60-foot Car Barn by 43 feet. The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Art Garden will showcase local artists’ creativity once again with a night of ephemeral art installations at the Winter HooPla event.For the past eight years, artists have transformed the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum’s freight...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Local attorneys Kevin Parsons and Lina Alexandra Hogan are aiming to attract more businesses to the village with their newly rehabilitated building.Parsons was looking for a new office after the location where he was renting space...

This week, a local TV news station ran a story about the reasons for increased auto insurance rates. They cited the increased cost of replacing bumpers and even had some dollar figure comparisons. The report ignored the elephant in the room. There was...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Senior centers around Franklin County are preparing to dip their toes into the digital and hybrid worlds thanks to $151,500 in grant funding from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs.Through the agency’s Hybrid Programming for Councils on Aging grant...

By ALAN HARRIS

Our Barnum and Bailey world gets more bizarre every day. Nothing astonishes. My core beliefs, however, are my guides. There’s always a higher way. There’s always a world where we know morality from apostasy, or renunciation of core beliefs.We’re...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Village business owners have banded together to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to the Israel-Hamas war. “We as humans have to stand up and say we all deserve to live,” said Bridge Street Bazaar co-owner Mohammad Yaseen....

Library hosting Offers and Needs Market SHELBURNE — An Offers and Needs Market will be held on Sunday, Jan. 14, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Arms Library, 60 Bridge St.Offers and Needs Markets showcase hidden talents, skills, resources and needs within...

By BELLA LEVAVI

A sixth grader at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School and a seventh grade physical education class at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange have emerged as victors in the state Department of Transportation’s second annual “Name a Snowplow”...

Until I’d read Sara Schley’s Jan. 2 column in the Recorder, “Planting Dates,” nothing I’d previously read or heard about the horrendous, ongoing Israel/Hamas all-out war in Gaza gave me any real hope of a possible near-term — or even longer-term — end...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — An $11,850 grant from the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture’s Coldwater Stewardship Program awarded to the Massachusetts Woodlands Institute and Franklin Land Trust will support engaging the community in coldwater fisheries habitat...

Sen. Paul Mark’s staff holding office hours in BucklandBUCKLAND — State Sen. Paul Mark’s staff will hold office hours on Tuesdays, Jan. 9 and Jan. 23, from 10 a.m. to noon at Buckland Town Hall, 17 State St.Constituents of Mark’s Berkshire, Hampden,...

Thank you Jim Johnson for the column on fall prevention [“Don’t fall,” Recorder, Jan. 2]. It was good to see it included in the sports section, a place where sports fans and many readers of all ages scan the headings. The tips to strengthen the legs...

Many of the Founding Fathers were afraid to trust the masses with the vote. They didn’t have confidence that the common man (it was just white men voting then) could really be trusted to make the decisions to let our democracy thrive. And yet for over...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Sunday will be the last day Molly Cantor’s pottery gallery at 20 Bridge St. will be open, but she assures residents she isn’t going anywhere.“It’s kind of micro-retiring,” Cantor said. “I’m giving up one part of my work so I can...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder is beginning to publish stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2024. Details about projects in the western part of the county will be shared in two...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With winter just beginning, bars and eateries across Franklin County are inviting people in for specialty drinks inspired by the cold season. Each venue, with changing menus, has a different take on what winter cocktails mean. But all are showing up...

By ALAN HARRIS

Last season I submitted a My Turn called “Remember who we are.” It’s easy to feel pessimistic with two wars simultaneously vying for our compassion. That column eschewed pessimism in favor of respecting our real place in the universe. I cited a...