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By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD – As the city and the Franklin Regional Council of Governments work toward a digital equity plan, a focus group at the Weldon House identified connectivity challenges in the former hotel on High Street as their biggest challenge.In...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CHARLEMONT — In its first session of 2024, the Charlemont Forum is bringing artificial intelligence to the table, as the discussion series looks at media as its overarching topic this year.The Charlemont Forum’s 2024 season opens on Thursday, April...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Business has started buzzing at Busy Bee Computers at 22 Federal St.The family-run venture opened in mid-January and patriarch Doug Ely said he has carried over most of the extensive clientele he built up while operating the business out...

By DEEPTI HAJELA

NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has signed an executive order to create a task force meant to study artificial intelligence and to advise her administration on the state’s role in implementing and encouraging private sector use of the new technology.The...

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst will lead a new $11.9 million center on offshore wind education, research and outreach to expedite development of offshore wind energy and train a national workforce to design, operate and manage the...

By VIRGINIA RAY

ASHFIELD — The Planning Board has granted telecommunications infrastructure developer Vertex Towers a six-month extension on its special permit to build a cell tower on Ridge Hill, a project that has been in the works for more than two years. “The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Planning Board has recently finalized new bylaws for personal wireless service facilities and is poised to present them at a public hearing, with plans to bring them to Annual Town Meeting this spring.“In general, it is very positive...

By DOMENIC POLI

Eversource has introduced to western Massachusetts equipment that can more quickly restore power to customers in the event of a downed or damaged utility pole.Rapid Pole technology was launched in New Hampshire 13 months ago and rolled out in this...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HAWLEY — The efforts behind the creation of the town’s new website are being recognized as the nonprofit Massachusetts Municipal Association has deemed Hawley to have the best website for a Massachusetts town with fewer than 5,000 residents.The new...

MONTAGUE — Informed by data and public feedback, the town is preparing its first-ever Digital Equity Plan in an effort to ensure all its residents have equal access to digital technologies — including the internet, computers and cellphones — as well...

By CARLA CHARTER

While work continues at the Wendell Historical Society’s new museum at the former depot store and post office, those interested in learning about the history of Wendell and the surrounding towns can view items from the society’s archives in its new...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Despite a complicated process of working with Eversource and Verizon, a majority of the survey work in the northern part of the city has been completed, affecting Precincts 1, 2 and 9, according to GCET General Manager John Lunt.“It has...

By LIESEL NYGARD

BERNARDSTON — The town launched a new website earlier this month, replacing its 7-year-old site with something fresh.Lou Bordeaux, who served as town coordinator until his retirement on Nov. 11, said he built the town’s new website after noticing how...

By BELLA LEVAVI

BERNARDSTON — Marking the near-completion of an $88,000 grant-funded project to bring digital literacy tools to seniors, the Bernardston Senior Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new computer lab on Tuesday.“It is tremendous,” Senior Center...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL – The town’s new municipal website is up and running and will soon serve as an official posting place for public meeting notices and other community information.Gillian Budine, vice chairwoman of the Wendell Selectboard, said the newest...

By DOMENIC POLI

Artificial intelligence is changing the phone scam game. But, experts say, the rules are the same.“I think we would always be wary when we pick up the phone when we don’t know who is calling,” said Anita Wilson, director of the Consumer Protection...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Thanks to a $99,773 grant, area seniors will gain increased access to technology and the resources to learn how to use it. The award, which comes from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, will benefit the Council on...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Several area senior centers will help older adults get up to speed on technology thanks to a state digital literacy grant.At the South County Senior Center, seniors will be able to enter a lottery for one of 129 iPads or for a stipend to pay internet...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — There seems to be no limit to the depths scammers will go to create a victim, with fictitious missing child posts serving as one of the latest online trends.Social media posts meant to tug at a community’s heartstrings with a youngster’s...

By MARY BYRNE

The state’s K-12 education department is encouraging districts to restrict or ban students’ cellphone use in schools, possibly moving toward a statewide mandate in the future.Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Commissioner Jeffrey...