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By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — No injuries were reported Thursday evening after a fire that started in a garage spread to the house next to it on Phillips Street.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Two Community Preservation Act funding requests and two bills from prior fiscal years were approved by residents in a swift Special Town Meeting Wednesday evening.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Frontier Regional School students will be setting sail into the Gulf of Mexico this weekend when they put on performances of “Wild Kate: A Tale of Revenge at Sea.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — For the fourth year in a row, every race on the town election ballot is uncontested.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — For the second time in two years, Annual Town Meeting voters once again rejected a citizen’s petition on Monday that would have asked the state Legislature to lower the municipal voting age to 16.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — For a quarter of a century, Deerfield Academy and the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew have been serving up helpings for body and soul.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WARWICK — With a May 2021 contract signed between the town and Charter Communications, Warwick residents were expecting to finally receive fiber-optic internet service in one of the county’s most rural communities.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Monday’s Annual Town Meeting will see residents consider a roughly $19.7 million budget and vote again on a citizen’s petition seeking to ask the Legislature to lower the municipal voting age to 16, which failed by three votes last year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Residents will be asked to consider two Community Preservation Act requests and two bills from prior fiscal years at a three-article Special Town Meeting on Wednesday, April 30.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The May 5 town election will see a rematch of 2022’s race, as Selectboard Chair Tim Hilchey faces a challenge from former Selectboard member David Wolfram for a three-year term.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The town will pursue engineering of a phased upgrade plan for the Old Deerfield Wastewater Treatment Plant, as the community continues to examine the best route forward for the aging facility.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Residents at Friday’s Annual Town Meeting will consider a $10.56 million budget and a $472,173 Community Preservation Act allocation for the proposed restoration of the Graves Memorial Library, as well as a citizen’s petition regarding land acknowledgment.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — The town will avoid dipping into its reserves to address its omission of $409,875 in capital stabilization assessments to taxpayers in fiscal year 2025.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — For nearly a quarter of a century, Carolyn Baskowski has welcomed students into Northfield Elementary School.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A group of residents who have opposed the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed new location off Plain Road East, voicing concerns about traffic and the siting of the facility on a quiet, dead-end road, have hired attorney John McLaughlin to represent their interests.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A Whately resident was transported to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield by South County EMS Friday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while she was cycling.

By CHRIS LARABEE

There’s no need to don your corset or three-piece suit for Historic Deerfield’s opening exhibition this season.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Police Chief Erik Demetropoulos will be sticking around for the next three years, as the Selectboard has unanimously approved a new contract.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — More than 120 area residents packed into Town Hall on Wednesday for a conversation with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern to voice their ongoing concerns with the Trump administration.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Whether your family traditions are pysanky egg decorating, wycinanki paper cutting or traditional folk dancing, residents are invited to celebrate all things Polish and Eastern European at The LAVA Center.