• Danielle Ponder belts out a song on the main stage at the Green River Festival in June. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Turners Falls Fire Capt. Luke Hartnett hands Bella, the dog, to police after rescuing her from a kitchen fire in Turners Falls in December. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Fireworks blur over Poet’s Seat Tower as the camera is defocused during the exposure at the Independence Day fireworks celebration at Beacon Field in July. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern listens to a question from Greenfield resident Michael Nix at the town hall meeting at Greenfield Middle School in March. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Franklin Tech’s Carsten Couture intercepts the ball but was out of bounds defended by Frontier’s Brady Poreda in Montague in September. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Mohawk’s Addie Loomis competes in the slalom at the PVIAC Individual Championships at Berkshire East in February.
  • A firefighter is silhouetted against the flames at the Montague Center bonfire in July. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Alex McClelland carries Jackson Campbell after Pioneer beat Boston English, 6-5, to capture the MIAA Division 5 State Championship at Polar Park in Worcester in June. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • Greenfield’s Elderina Cecunjanin, who scored her 100th goal, poses with her team in September in Greenfield. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo
  • A maple tree on an island in the Millers River is ablaze, with Montague pictured in the background, in October. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff File Photo

Paul Franz is the Photo Editor of the Greenfield Recorder and has worked there since 1989. He can be reached at pfranz@recorder.com