Cool Rides Car Show returns to Franklin Tech

TURNERS FALLS — The Cool Rides Car Show is returning to Franklin County Technical School, 82 Industrial Blvd., on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission is free. There will be awards for the coolest vehicles, including the People’s Choice Trophy. Food will also be prepared by Culinary Arts students and staff.

Attendees peruse through the line of vehicles during the ninth annual Cool Rides Car Show at Franklin County Technical School last year.
Attendees peruse the line of vehicles during the ninth annual Cool Rides Car Show at Franklin County Technical School. Credit: DAN LITTLE / For the Recorder

Postponed Gill Harvest Festival set for Sunday

GILL — The sixth annual Gill Harvest Festival is back on this Sunday, Oct. 4, from noon to 3 p.m. after inclement weather last weekend pushed the festival back to its rain date.

The festival will take place on the town common outside Gill Town Hall, 325 Main Road. Activities will include farmers and local artisans selling goods, the Gill Fire Department serving food and beverages, along with a door raffle to win a backyard compost bin.

Other activities include tractors on display for children to check out, hayrides, a petting zoo and a coin search, among other family-friendly activities. Music that day will be performed by the Falltown String Band.

Oct. 4: Early American medicine talk

ERVING — The Erving Public Library will host a talk on early American medicine with historical interpreter Matt Villamaino on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 2 p.m.

Attendees can learn about what techniques doctors used, what worked, what didn’t work and why people trusted medicine at the time. Villamaino, who has worked in the interpretive field for more than 15 years, will also show artifacts.

The program is funded by a grant from New Salem Academy.

St. Hyacinth Pierogi Makers Terry Dempsey and Kathi Hoszkiewicz are prepared for the pierogi sale at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church in Turners Falls on Saturday, Oct. 10. Credit: CONTRIBUTED

National Pierogi Day at Our Lady of Czestochowa

TURNERS FALLS — Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84 K St., will celebrate National Pierogi Day with a pierogi sale on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The pierogi are made by the St. Hyacinth Pierogi Makers, who will be selling cheese, sauerkraut, and jumbo potato and cheese pierogis in frozen packages of six for $12. Additionally, the church’s kitchen will serve a polish plate for $15 that includes smoked kielbasa, potato and cheese pierogi, mushroom barley, marinated beets, horseradish coleslaw and rye bread.

During the pierogi sale, there will be Polish baked goods available to buy as well, with paczki, or Polish doughnuts, and chrusciki, called Polish angel wings, on the menu.

Correction, October 5, 2026 4:02 pm: An earlier version of this document incorrectly listed the church that is offering a National Pierogi Day sale on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sale is being offered by Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, located at 84 K St. in Turners Falls.