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The first of two regular season games between the Greenfield and Frontier baseball teams took place on Saturday in South Deerfield, with the Green Wave walking away with a 4-0 Suburban League West victory over the Redhawks behind a complete game shutout from Caleb Thomas on the mound.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — “Part of a democracy is speaking up,” says Sarah Pirtle, who brought together dozens of protesters at the Iron Bridge on Saturday to sing songs of hope and spread resistance against the Trump administration as part of the national 50501 movement.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

The headlines last week were dire. Egg prices had reached an all-time high, just in time for Easter.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Two men who were involved in a 2023 incident in which a man was stabbed in Orange before the assailants led police on a high-speed chase that ended in Belchertown were sentenced on Friday.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Garden Cinemas is collecting donations for victims of the southern California wildfires by selling tickets to a theatrical slate of trailers, never-before-seen footage and behind-the-scenes content.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — To celebrate Earth Day, the Energy Committee is helping to organize free, family-friendly activities at Fisher Hill Elementary School on Tuesday, April 22.

GREENFIELD — Residents can learn about the beginnings of the Clamshell Alliance as a nonviolent movement that sought to stop the construction of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant through two upcoming screenings of “Acres of Clams.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — For nearly a quarter of a century, Carolyn Baskowski has welcomed students into Northfield Elementary School.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — Among the five questions on this year’s town election ballot are a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion to pay to repair a retaining wall on Bronson Avenue, as well as a series of advisory questions asking if residents would approve of using herbicides at Ashfield Lake and closing Sanderson Academy.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — The Selectboard is expected to vote on a $5.29 million fiscal year 2026 budget to recommend to voters at Annual Town Meeting.

By BEN GROSSCUP

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SPRINGFIELD — Bishop William Byrne not only introduced the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield’s new executive director for its Catholic Charities agency last week but also laid out the evolution that the agency will see now that protection of immigrants is no longer part of its agenda in the wake of federal cuts.

By ALEXA LEWIS

Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Head Start services could be facing setbacks if the Trump administration does not allocate money to the federal program next fiscal year — a very real possibility that advocates say would be catastrophic for vulnerable young children and their families.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Residents used a hands-on game to visualize what they’d like to see at the site of the former Farren Care Center.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — A 25-acre portion of the city’s downtown will soon be home to dozens of trees through a state grant-funded effort to combat extreme heat with shade.

Make it four wins in a row for the Frontier girls tennis team. 

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The warm weather picked a perfect time to arrive in Franklin County. 

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — University of Massachusetts officials are dispelling unconfirmed chatter this week that federal agents affiliated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were present on the Amherst campus.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Following testimony from an attorney and a radio frequency expert representing the abutters of a proposed 170-foot monopole cell tower near 112 Newton St., the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday formally requested that AT&T provide dropped call data, reception data collected from driving tests and a report from a third-party radio frequency engineer.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Recognizing April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, city and state officials gathered at the Greenfield Common Friday morning to raise awareness of child harm, abuse and neglect.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A group of residents who have opposed the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed new location off Plain Road East, voicing concerns about traffic and the siting of the facility on a quiet, dead-end road, have hired attorney John McLaughlin to represent their interests.