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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The county’s only Catholic preschool is set to open in September near the former site of Holy Trinity School.Beacon of Light Preschool is expected to start inside the Blessed Trinity Parish pastoral center and parish office at 14 Beacon...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HEATH — Thanks to a $100,000 three-year grant from the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, Hilltown Youth Recovery Theatre, which is now at capacity, will be able to increase its staffing to provide its mental health arts programming to area youths....

NORTHAMPTON — With summer official this week, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office and children’s advocacy centers of Hampshire and Franklin counties and the North Quabbin region urge anyone caring for children to recognize the unique dangers...

It was a weekend to remember in the Tri-County League, as two Northfield youth softball teams matched up for the league title.In the end, the Northfield Wolves outlast the Northfield Cougars, 10-5, to claim the Tri-County League championship. The...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Girls Softball League kicked off its season on Saturday at Murphy Park, with Franklin First Credit Union squaring off against Freedom Credit Union in Junior Division action. Behind a trio of hits and three strikeouts in the...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Community members on Monday expressed their disgust with the Orange Elementary School Committee over the hiring of unqualified man as Fisher Hill School’s licensed practical nurse.Robert Davis, who was employed from Oct. 2 to Feb. 28,...

By DOMENIC POLI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Fifty-two students coming of age during a time enveloped by social media and online influence spoke with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Monday to discuss proposed legislation that would update a law enacted 26 years ago to better protect...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Children’s Advocacy Center of Franklin County and North Quabbin has secured $194,000 in federal funding to sustain its number of clinicians and expand its reach into the North Quabbin area.Executive Director Jeffrey Trant explained...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A local youth league is recruiting volunteers and monetary donations to help give area softball players a field of their dreams.The board of directors for Athol-Orange Chuck Stone Baseball/Softball has decided to renovate the abandoned Spear...

It’s been quite the winter season for the Franklin County Hockey Association 14U Green team.The club nabbed a championship in the Tier IV Small Division at the Massachusetts Hockey State Tournament, and followed that up this past weekend with another...

The inaugural New England Interscholastic Girls Wrestling Championship took place on Friday and Saturday at Providence Career & Technical Academy in Rhode Island, with a pair of local athletes competing. Frontier’s Jocelyn Antes and Franklin Tech’s...

The Greenfield Knights of Columbus Hoop Shoot took place on Saturday at Franklin County’s YMCA in Greenfield. Greenfield’s Savannah Thomas was the winner in the age nine girls group. On the boys side Kent Warner of Leyden won the age nine group, South...

The annual Greenfield Knights of Columbus Hoop Shoot will be held on Saturday at Franklin County’s YMCA in Greenfield. The event is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., with registration getting underway at 2:30 p.m. The hoop shoot is open to all boys and...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Most unhealthy habits among youth have been trending downward in the past few years, according to data recently released by the Communities That Care Coalition.The Franklin Regional Council of Governments program surveyed 1,439 eighth,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — It is not unheard of for a library to host an event so authors can read their work to the public and answer questions. But those writers typically don’t have homework and bedtimes.Emma Barrett, 11, and Belley Barrett, 8, recently published...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard voted this week to reduce the automatic amusement license fees for Dave’s Arcade for this year to help the operation get off the ground.State law requires municipalities to charge businesses $20 to $100 each year for every...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Working alongside Montague’s elementary schools and the Parks and Recreation Department, Our Family Legacy Farm co-owner Natalie Spatcher is working to ensure every child can express themselves at the playground, even when they can’t do so...

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

GREENFIELD — Over weeks of collecting stories and experiences of teens in a local theater group, one issue seemed to resonate with students more than others: gun violence.“One day, the majority of the group came to rehearsal after there had been a...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The statistics are out there, but some say they don’t show the whole picture.Glance at a youth crime rates chart with proverbial blinders on and you’ll feel as though numbers have recently climbed to an unprecedented degree. But, as those...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The local Upward Bound program that in 2021 moved from Northfield Mount Hermon School to Greenfield Community College announced on Tuesday that a lack of federal funding is forcing its closure after roughly 55 years of serving...