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By JANICE FLEURIEL
High Honors: Autumn Belanger, Katelyn Bozek, Sallie Flynn, Augustus Foote, Elliot Franetovich, Miley Frey, Maddan Garcia, Elizabeth Gilmore, Raelyn Hildreth, Grayson Johnson, Annabelle Koshinsky, Samantha Krumm-Poulin, Jared Lanoue, Everett Long, Tamsin Macmillan, Cooper Morey, Adalyn Nevins, Addison Putman, Andrew Redeker, Kaden Shearer, Zoey-Mae Shearer, Adaline Sullivan, Shae Swindell, Rheia Thomasson, Alaina Toothaker, Gunnar Triggs, Sadie Wilcox and Liam Zarotny.
In less than 24 hours, because of Tariff Trump's recent orders, we the people may have to start paying 25% more for goods from Mexico and Canada (from vehicles and auto parts to fruits, cooking oil, and meat), and 10% more for goods from China (just read the labels on any number of everyday items sold in retail stores). I wondered if we the people could use the language Trump understands and sue him for fraud over his promises to cut costs for Americans who so badly need that. But nope. Because while he talked about cutting costs out of one side of his mouth he talked tariffs out of the other (but he never said that we the people, not the countries the goods come from, pay the costs of those tariffs).
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — The 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, is seeking community feedback as it contemplates models for possible restructuring of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts in an effort to maintain or improve the experience of students while taking into account the fiscal limitations of the districts’ small member towns.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Great River Hydro is looking to develop a battery energy storage system, a first for the hydropower company, at its Deerfield No. 3 Station located at 71 Conway St.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Eversource plans to replace 107 utility poles across the village to improve the reliability of the electrical grid, though the project has given Shelburne town officials pause amid their own LED streetlight conversion effort.
The job description for the shared rural downtown coordinator position reported in the Jan. 20 Recorder needs to start with these top three priorities, at least here in Shelburne Falls: 1) Parking and traffic management. 2) Parking and traffic management. 3) Parking and traffic management.
SHELBURNE FALLS — Local residents can enjoy a performance from the Metropolitan Opera without needing to take a trip to New York. A live performance of “Aida,” a tragic opera by composers Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Ghislanzoni, will be streamed live to the Memorial Hall Theater at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE — As the West County Food Pantry’s funding sources shift, the Selectboard is exploring the possibility of allocating funding and potentially asking voters to appropriate funds during Annual Town Meeting.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — With a $22.6 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 as a starting point, the Mohawk Trail Regional School District Budget Subcommittee will be working over the next few weeks to see what line items could potentially be trimmed.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School students may have a new math class to take next fall as the school is considering offering an Integrated Math program that would combine elements of the geometry and algebra into one course, rather than two separate classes.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — There’s a new nonprofit in town.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — For one night only, Mohawk Trail Regional School will host a performance of “And Then There Was One,” a murder mystery following 10 individuals invited to a mansion on a small island, who then die one by one until only one person is left.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
Editor’s note: To mark the start of a new year, the Greenfield Recorder is publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2025. Details about projects in the western part of the county were...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — With the towns of Shelburne and Buckland shifting the focus of their Community Development Block Grants to housing, the West County Food Pantry operated by Community Action Pioneer Valley will be facing a $50,000 budget deficit and looking for creative financing solutions come next fall.
Shelburne employees can anticipate 3% raise in FY26 SHELBURNE — As department heads begin preparing their budgets for fiscal year 2026, town employees can anticipate a salary increase of 3%. The Selectboard has issued its budget directive, telling...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — The Shelburne Police Department is investigating the theft and destruction of two vehicles from Shelburne Falls that occurred earlier this week. Between 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23, and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 24, a black Toyota SUV...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — Fundraising efforts are underway to replace Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School’s three playgrounds.Principal Hayley Gilmore said the current playground structures have run the course of their lifespan.“There’s a lot of broken...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — The towns of Buckland and Shelburne are lowering their tax rates for fiscal year 2025. Buckland residents can expect a rate of $16.94 per $1,000 valuation and Shelburne residents will see a rate of $12.84. Buckland’s rate will be 62...
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS — A Shelburne Falls playwright is developing a play about the life of an emergency management coordinator during a global pandemic, and is looking for audience feedback.Two free readings of “How to Fold a Fitted Sheet and Other...
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