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By RABBI ANDREA COHEN KIENER

Yes, it’s cold and grey and snowy. It’s February! The cruelest month. But more and more, slowly, slowly, we are beginning to register that the sun is rising earlier and riding higher in the sky. Sunset is holding on a few minutes later each and every...

By SHERYL HUNTER

You might not recognize the name Billy Conway or know of his ties to some of our local musicians, but I’m willing to bet that you have heard him play before. Conway, who passed away in 2021, is probably best known as the drummer for the Boston-based...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Families from all over soaked up the thrill of gliding on skis and snowboards down the trails at Berkshire East Mountain Resort over the weekend in what, for many, is a yearly tradition.“This season has been surprisingly good despite the...

Colrain student named to Castleton Dean’s List COLRAIN — Sarah Herzig of Colrain was named to the Dean’s List at Castleton University in Vermont for the fall 2022 semester.She previously attended Mohawk Trail Regional School and is the daughter of Ken...

By JAN FLASKA

The joy of football – global, that is, not American – found its spiritual home in Qatar for one month this winter. Few celebratory storylines were as gripping as Morocco’s run to the semifinals. When that former French colony stood on the pitch facing...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Around 20 demonstrators, including some from Franklin County, gathered in front of the Northampton office of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on Thursday evening to protest the recent decision by the U.S. government to send M1 Abrams tanks to...

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...