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By CHRIS LARABEE

TURNERS FALLS — There are superheroes among us in Franklin County, but don’t expect to see them in a comic book.The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region held the first “Super Chamber Breakfast” on...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Steven Grayhm spent over a decade writing and directing the locally shot film, “Sheepdog,” which screened publicly for the first time last weekend at the 40th annual Boston Film Festival. The film follows the story of U.S. Army Combat Veteran Calvin...

Dear Community: I want to address a troubling incident that recently occurred: a child was hit by a car driving recklessly, and it was only due to the quick actions of local Samaritans that the driver didn’t flee the scene. This has sparked anger and...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Residents of Montague, Gill and Erving won’t have to look far to find a fall festival this weekend, with abundant activities planned on Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29. Gill Community Contra Dance and Fall Festival The second annual Gill...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Toting buckets and nets, roughly 30 volunteers made the trek down into the muddy pit that is the drained power canal to rescue sea lampreys on Monday. This yearly rescue, conducted when the power canal is drained for yearly...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Amid continued complaints about odor emanating from Flower Power Growers, the Selectboard voted 2-1 in favor of having Town Administrator Walter Ramsey look into the cost and feasibility of having a third-party consultant evaluate the 180...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Residents and town officials are discussing concerns about speeding after a 12-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle last weekend at the corner of Fifth and L streets, resulting in a head and knee injury.According to Fifth Street resident...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — RiverCulture Director Suzanne LoManto believes “good public art is a response by an artist to the times we live in and the people who make up a community.”The completion of the 3,200-square-foot mural on the exterior of the Shea...

By CHRIS LARABEE

TURNERS FALLS — With the help of a $211,331 grant, The United Arc will invest in technology for its staff to better serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the region while streamlining their work.The Turners Falls-based...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

TURNERS FALLS — After Jess Marsh Wissemann moved to Sunderland in 2010 to work on her husband’s family farm, she took on creative jobs, such as crafting signs that Warner Farm could take to farmers markets. What began as sketching on chalkboards grew...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Over the last 13 years of creating his movie “Sheepdog” through building relationships with veterans and their families, director and actor Steven Grayhm sought to tell the stories of U.S. veterans once they return to civilian life.The...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — A lot has changed since 1954. What hasn’t changed is the tight-knit relationships fostered by the Turners Falls High School Class of 1954.On Thursday, nine of the class’ 19 surviving members got together at Terrazza Ristorante to mark...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

TURNERS FALLS — A day never forgotten, remembered again. On Sept. 11, 2001, the world was shocked by four coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people and injured thousands more. That morning, the Muslim militant group...

By SHERYL HUNTER

It’s never easy to bid farewell to summer, and fortunately, there are a few summer music series chugging along, providing us with a last gasp of the warm weather months before we have to resign ourselves to life in the great indoors. Let’s take a look...

Bork-Tinen-Kahn Trio to perform at Discovery CenterTURNERS FALLS — The Bork-Tinen-Kahn Trio will perform at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, on Friday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. Ferne Bork, Dan Tinen and Bruce Kahn will use their three voices,...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — The Selectboard approved spending $431,707 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money during Monday’s meeting, including $75,000 that will fund the after-school program at Sheffield Elementary School.The ARPA package contained other funding...

By WALT GORMAN

Well, the season is winding down. As I look forward to not going to the Franklin County Fair and tossing my cookies on the Tilt-A-Whirl, I hope to be less cranky as the nights become cooler and the days grow shorter. And since this newspaper...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

North Carolina-based muralist Darion Fleming has arrived to Montague to begin working his creative magic on the 3,200-square-foot exterior wall of the Shea Theater Arts Center on Avenue A.The mural’s final design and painting timeline were released on...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — For decades, it was assumed the federally endangered shortnose sturgeon did not live upstream of the Turners Falls dam on the Connecticut River, although two confirmed sightings in 2017 and 2022 raised some compelling evidence.New...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE – Shawn Rickan has started as the new principal of Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School as the school year begins for the Gill-Montague Regional School District (GMRSD).During a School Committee meeting on Tuesday, GMRSD...