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Beacon Hill Roll Call: May 5 to May 9, 2025
Greenfield School Committee resolution seeks extra $350K in FY26 budget
Montague OKs $135K for DPW purchases, starting PILOT negotiations
‘Neighbors helping neighbors’: Whately hosting biweekly seed, plant exchanges
Colrain voters elect new town clerk
Funding for fire truck, cemetery expansion OK’d in Erving
My Turn: Everyone is entitled to due process
Saturday event to remember Great Falls Massacre, 349 years later
Greenfield’s Bee Fest celebrating 15th year this weekend
GREENFIELD — The city will host its 15th annual Bee Fest on Saturday, featuring the unveiling of the city’s first bee sculpture to be stationed at the Big E festival this summer.
‘It’s the way I feel faith, like a river’: Greenfield’s All Souls Church celebrates 200th anniversary this Sunday
As Greenfield’s All Souls Church congregation gears up to celebrate its 200th anniversary with a day of worship and celebration, lunch and music on May 18, Chair of Worship Kate Mason and Membership and Heritage Committee member Russ Pirkot discussed the ever-changing role Unitarianism brought the for those wishing to break free from more restrictive religions.
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Longtime farmers retire, close Butynski’s Farm Stand in Greenfield
Gill-Montague superintendent announces plans to resign
Former Leyden police chief must pay nearly $11K in larceny case
My Turn: Everyone is entitled to due process
Real Estate Transactions: May 16, 2025
National Fire Protection Association official speaks to battery storage fire dangers
Editors Picks
In heavenly harmony: The Singing Priests to perform at Our Lady of Peace in Turners Falls, May 22
North County Notebook: May 16, 2025
West County Notebook: May 16, 2025
Greenfield Notebook: May 16, 2025
Sports
HS Roundup: Frontier girls tennis defeats Chicopee, 4-1
Frontier girls tennis player Ella Sibley had to grind to earn her team a point on Thursday against Chicopee.
Bulletin Board: Franklin First Credit Union defeats Pristine Orientals in GGSL action
The Real Score with Emily Must: Teeing Up the Next Generation of Sport Leaders
HS Roundup: Pioneer baseball moves to 16-0 following 8-1 win over Greenfield (PHOTOS)
Bulletin board: Mohawk Trail alum Grace Poplawski tabbed at Westfield State’s Female Senior Scholar Athlete of the YearOpinion
My Turn: How wealth and privilege prevent much-needed housing
Amherst College blithely contributed to the housing shortage in Amherst. That was the takeaway of a recent Gazette article about the liberal arts college’s request to demolish two historic properties, which, according to the article, was purchased to prevent a housing development by outbidding private housing developers with $4.3 million in 2003. It’s an astonishing case of wealth and privilege preventing the construction of much-needed housing, regardless of the detriment to others, while irresponsibly allowing two historic homes to fall into a state of disrepair.
Rachael Cowan: Medicaid HCBS needs your support
Genevieve Harris-Fraser: The Zionist agenda
Rowan Redman: If you want to use oil, use it on a different planet!
Ramona Brewster: Protect the ocean
Your Daily Puzzles
An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."
A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.
Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.
Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.
Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
Business
Six Franklin County businesses get funding boost through Biz-M-Power grants, fundraising
Six Franklin County businesses have benefited from a series of Biz-M-Power grants awarded by MassDevelopment’s Growth Capital Division, with a total of $779,397 being distributed to 62 small businesses across the state.
Longtime farmers retire, close Butynski’s Farm Stand in Greenfield
Customer demand drives expansion of Flis Market’s pizza offerings
$200K grant fuels expansion at Radial Dynamics in Greenfield
As Shady Glen Diner awaits buyer, current owner extends hours, shores up staffinge-Edition
Arts & Life
‘Once I started playing the organ, I was hooked’: Beloved longtime minister of music Dick Matteson bids farewell
After 65 years playing and directing church music, 17 of those as First Church Amherst minister of music, Dick Matteson is ready to celebrate his legacy with the Pioneer Valley. He plans to retire next month, and a farewell concert will be held this Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m.
Preserving the work of a dear friend: Making Hilary Sloin’s acquaintance on the page
Valley Bounty: Hillside Nursery thrives in a niche market: Small plant farm in Ashfield specializes in lady-slipper orchids and woodland wildflowers
Sounds Local: StrangeCreekCampout returns next weekend: Family-friendly camping, jamming, and over 60 bands on three stages
Speaking of Nature: Learning bird songs: Ninety percent of bird-finding is done with one’s earsObituaries
Jean M. Desrosier
Orange, MA - Jean Marie (Roussel, Gore) Desrosiers, 81, went home to be with her Lord on Saturday (5/10). Born on September 25, 1943 in Athol, she was the daughter of Roland J. & Estelle M. (Letourneau) Roussel. She was a graduate o... remainder of obit for Jean M. Desrosier
Paul M. Rich
Greenfield, MA - Paul M. Rich, the self described "Last of the Mohawkians", was born May 22, 1943, and lived his entire life in Greenfield, MA. He graduated from Windham College in Putney, VT with a BA in Economics and a minor in Americ... remainder of obit for Paul M. Rich
Raymond Wilson
Rowe, MA - Raymond Wilson, 79, passed away on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in Douglas, MA Raymond was born on August 16, 1945, in Rossington, England, to the late Henry Havelock Wilson and Eveline (Jones) Wilson. Raymond earned a degree in... remainder of obit for Raymond Wilson
Douglas R. Gordon
Greenfield, MA - Douglas Robert Gordon, Doug to his family and friends, passed unexpectedly at home on May 8, 2025. Doug was born on March 2, 1954 in Greenfield, MA where he was raised by his father Ralph E. Gordon Sr and his beloved g... remainder of obit for Douglas R. Gordon
