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By BELLA LEVAVI and PAUL FRANZ

COLRAIN — A two-car garage with a vacant apartment above it at 397 Main Road (Route 112) was destroyed by a two-alarm fire that started Thursday at around 3:15 a.m.“We are not 100% certain, but we believe the fire started near the wood stove,” Colrain...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

COLRAIN — A Colrain man was hospitalized with neck pain Wednesday afternoon after snowy road conditions caused a two-vehicle crash on Dwight Cross Road.According to Massachusetts State Police Trooper Eric Baumann, a black Toyota Tacoma pickup truck...

By CHRIS LARABEE

COLRAIN — With Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. officially shutting down at the end of next week, the defunct Colrain Sewer District has called its first meeting in years to discuss how sewage from homes in the neighborhood will be processed.The cotton...

By SHERYL HUNTER

Greenfield resident Michael Nix has long been challenging people’s perceptions of the banjo, an instrument that many view as limited to bluegrass or country music. Through his extensive work as a musician, composer and teacher, Nix has shown us that...

Few knew or loved Catamount more than Tom (“Monsai”) Maloney.  Aside from growing up on the southern-most extremity of the mountain, it was Tom’s playground from the time he could ambulate.  Starting with bicycles and advancing to an old VW Beetle, to...

By BELLA LEVAVI

COLRAIN — The Catamount Hill Association, a nonprofit founded by descendants of residents who lived on the hill before 1875, now owns the land best known as the site where the first American flag was raised above a public schoolhouse in 1812.During...

By JANET KEYES

In 2022 our church had two special funerals for deceased members.First there was Tom. I did not know Tom very well, but my husband knew him as a high school classmate, and later as a customer and friend of ours. Tom was a lifelong bachelor in his...

By KEVIN HODGSON

I typed in: “How will ChatGPT change the way teachers are teaching writing in the classroom?” and clicked the “submit” button. Within seconds, words scrolled across the screen from ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chat tool:“ChatbotGPT is a variant...

By SHERYL HUNTERFor the RecorderPhil Simon of Warwick has been in the music business for over 30 years. He operates Simon Says Booking and Publicity based in Orange, and last year he assumed the role of Program Consultant at the Shea Theater Arts...

By BELLA LEVAVI

COLRAIN — When the town’s biggest employer announced it would be closing by Feb. 1, the news inspired concern among residents who wondered where their sewage will be processed.Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. at 247 Main Road processes sewage from 19...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE — When Brolin Winning worked outside smoking meat at Smokey Bro’s BBQ on the Mohawk Trail, he would often stare up the hill at the abandoned Anchorage Nursing Home and think, “I can do something really cool with that place.”Now, five years...

By STEVE PFARRER

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, and what she calls “the feeling of Christmas when...

By BRETT REITENBACH

From Dec. 23 to 27, parts of Buffalo, New York, received a stunning 50 inches of snow along with wind gusts of at least 70 mph. One didn’t have to travel too many miles away from there to see drastically smaller accumulations due to the localized...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Colrain and Shelburne joined forces to contract a company to tear down three abandoned houses and a small barn close to the town line.Nine contractors attended the initial bid meeting that included an on-site inspection, according to Shelburne...

Call me foolish but I just can’t let go of the following fact: If the constitution states clearly that election procedures — rules and regulations — are set by state legislatures, and a handful of attorneys general in a handful of states unilaterally...

By DON STEWART

With admission now free until April, through March 12 at Williamstown’s Clark Art Institute you can view Parisian drawings and prints from the 1700s, ranging from colorful views of flowered landscapes to the mysterious and the fantastic. “Promenades...

By MONYA RELLES

Have you heard about gay penguins? You may remember Ray and Silo, the gay penguins of the Central Park Zoo of 2004, proud parents of their own adopted chick. Since then, there have been dozens of gay penguins in zoos, in news articles and even on TV’s...

By THE REV. FATHER ROBERT M. KOERBER

“On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother; and they knelt down and paid Him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” (Matthew 2:11) The final piece of the story of...

By VIRGINIA RAY

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder has been publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2023. Details about projects in the western part of the county will be shared in two...