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By DAVID PARRELLA

There has always been a sentiment in our country to get small.

The Franklin County Solid Waste Management District will hold its “Clean Sweep” Bulky Waste Recycling Day on Saturday, May 17, at three collection sites in Erving, Buckland and Whately.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — The Charlemont Forum will kick off its annual speaker series on Thursday, May 8, with a presentation by University of Massachusetts Amherst political science professor Jesse Rhodes on voting rights in America.

COLRAIN — Applications to vote by mail in this year’s town election are due back to the Town Clerk’s Office by Thursday, May 8.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — In conjunction with the “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” Smithsonian exhibit on democracy that is now on display at Mohawk Trail Regional School, the school partnered with the Center for New Americans for a panel welcoming immigrants to tell their stories of becoming Americans.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — After lengthy discussion, a tied vote and a recount, voters approved appropriating $12,500 for a Historical Commission grant match to update records of historical sites in town.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Graduating high school can feel a lot like going through a midlife crisis, says Mohawk Trail Regional School Stage Director Paul Johnson.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Should Annual Town Meeting be moved to a weekday instead of being held on the weekend?

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Democracy is alive at the Mohawk Trail Regional School. 

SHELBURNE FALLS — Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” is coming to Memorial Hall Theater on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m.

High Honors: Jayden Baez, Katelyn Bozek, Augustus Foote, Miley Frey, Maddan Garcia, Georgia Gauthier, Hope Gilbert, Cahley Hart, Raelyn Hildreth, Grayson Johnson, Annabelle Koshinsky, Samantha Krumm-Poulin, Everett Long, Tamsin Macmillan, Cooper Morey, Andrew Redeker, Cyrus Richardson, Bentley Ryan, Adaline Sullivan, Bruin Thompson, Alaina Toothaker, Tristan Towe, Gunnar Triggs and Sadie Wilcox.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, voted to recommend further exploration of a single-campus model to restructure the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The Historical Commission is seeking $12,500 from voters at the May 3 Annual Town Meeting to match a grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission for a project surveying historical sites in town.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — A “spirit gallery” with psychic medium Brandie Wells will raise money for Shelburne Falls Eagles Auxiliary scholarships that are given to Mohawk Trail Regional School graduates.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The Mohawk Trail Regional School District plans to use a team effort to move forward from recent allegations of staff misconduct and inappropriate relationships with students, and has outlined a plan to learn about such cases and how to report them.

A recent letter claims that libraries are “a vital cornerstone of democracy” (April 1). The letter writer is entitled to her opinion, but that’s an absurd thing to say when many let drag queens in the front door. They shouldn’t be let in at all!

SHELBURNE — The Town Clerk’s Office will offer additional voter registration hours on Thursday, April 10, from 10:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. for those who are not currently registered to vote in Shelburne but would like to attend the April 22 Special Town Meeting.

By DAVID PARRELLA

It was 1969 and a lot of us who were college freshmen that year spent a lot of time listening to the White Album by the Beatles. That one song in two versions kept replaying in my head.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Town officials are eyeing an operating budget of just over $5.9 million for fiscal year 2026, representing a 6.7% increase from this fiscal year’s numbers.