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By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — With an initiative to raise the required $50,000 match to a Commonwealth Places grant from MassDevelopment having met its goal, the village will move forward with plans to continue mosaic installations and the initial phases of the...

By JANET SINCLAIR and MICHAEL KELLETT

Gov. Maura Healey’s campaign promise for a moratorium for “commercial logging” on the 617,000 acres of state-owned forestland has gotten a lot of press coverage. It has generated a wide range of views on what the role of our forests should be in...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

For most people, spending time with a dog is something good for the heart. For one Shelburne Falls resident, it’s crucial.Haylee Graves suffers from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a chronic condition that causes the heart to beat...

Cemetery days continue in Hawley HAWLEY — The town is hosting volunteer workdays to clean up cemeteries.Cleanup of the East Hawley Cemetery, located at the corner of Plainfield and Ashfield roads, will take place on Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to...

Sewer work continues on Bridge StreetSHELBURNE FALLS — GEG Associates is continuing sewer work within the intersection of Bridge and Main streets this week, during which time Main Street will be closed up to the parking lot behind Greenfield Savings...

Thank you, Tolley Jones, for your “My Turn” columns in the Greenfield Recorder. I appreciate your clear descriptions of what life is like for marginalized people in this country, including in our own sweet little area of western Massachusetts, and...

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...