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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — As the Greenfield Redevelopment Authority drafts a request for proposals for the former First National Bank building on Bank Row, potential uses range from a boutique hotel to a concert venue.

2:55 p.m. — Vandalism reported at the Olive Street Parking Garage. Services rendered.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — The White House’s top-line discretionary budget request for fiscal year 2026, released on May 2, proposes the slashing of two line items that, if approved, could significantly alter Community Action Pioneer Valley’s services.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and MADISON SCHOFIELD

Franklin County arts organizations are worried about the future funding landscape after hearing about cuts the Trump administration is proposing to the National Endowment for the Arts.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Housing took center stage during a more than three-hour meeting Thursday, as City Council voted against the zoning amendments in a citizen’s petition to regulate accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and approved an amendment to increase the maximum building height in the Central Commercial District.

By ALLEN WOODS

Nearly all social thinkers (including the artificial ones of AI) emphasize that functioning, peaceful societies must agree on a group of shared meanings for communicating. These include gestures (a handshake, hug, tip of the hat, tap on the heart, etc.), images and symbols, and spoken and written words. They are “the glue that holds society together, enabling individuals to understand each other, cooperate effectively, and build a cohesive and vibrant social life.”

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

According to Megan Bent, gallery manager of Worcester’s Open Door Gallery, “expanding upon the communal understanding of what disability is” is the main goal of newest exhibition, “Shared.”

By MADELINE MILLER

Shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, May 2, I received an email from the National Endowment for the Arts notifying me that Artspace Greenfield’s current grant in support of our community gallery had been terminated. This grant had helped fund our gallery for roughly a year so far, offering new and emerging Franklin County artists an opportunity to exhibit in a professional setting, and increasing the amount of art on view for local people to experience.

By RUSSELL PIRKOT

I had a dream the other day, and I want to tell you about it. I’d been reading The Diary of Anne Frank, which I do on occasion. I keep a copy of it on my nightstand, along with some other books that I find myself drawn back to, again and again. And lately, with everything in the news about Donald Trump and his authoritarian ways, I felt the need to revisit Anne Frank’s writing from the “Secret Annex.”

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The city’s shift from using a dual-stream recycling method to single-stream recycling will take effect in July, according to Department of Public Works Director Marlo Warner II.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After rainstorms brought flooding to the region last weekend that impacted the city’s homeless population, members of the newly formed Unhoused Community Committee discussed forming designated camping areas for the homeless.

GREENFIELD — Arcana Chapter No. 50, the local chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, is holding the first of its monthly lobster roll sales on Friday, May 9.

By MITCH ANTHONY

When I moved to Greenfield in the 1970s, downtown could have been a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. Parking was free on Friday nights, and the stores on Main Street stayed open late. Boys bought their first ties at Bartlett’s Men’s Store, and picking up a mail order at the Sears catalog store was a routine errand for everyone. Sullivan’s Drugstore would even stay open just for you if you couldn’t make it before their usual closing time.

I got behind on reading the Recorder so this comment may be a bit dated. I saw a recent column stating that columnist Al Norman’s concern about the possibility of ADUs growing at an alarming rate represented the “politics of fear.” Bringing up fear is awfully weak sauce.

GREENFIELD — In an effort to stimulate the local economy, Gagne Wealth Management Group has partnered with the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce to launch the first-ever Gagne Wealth Gift Card promotion. With a $10,000 donation, the initiative will inject more than $20,000 into small businesses across Franklin County.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — As a proposed zoning amendment seeking to raise the height restriction on construction nears a City Council vote this week, members of the Historical Commission expressed concerns over how such a change might impact aesthetics and shared a desire to preserve historic character.

By AL NORMAN

“Massachusetts has had a housing crisis for decades.”

By RUTH CHARNEY

They were headed down Route 91, almost to Deerfield, when he says, “You have your ID right.”

I was deeply disappointed that you chose to show a picture of a pro-Palestinian encampment as part of your article on antisemitism [“Antisemitic incidents remain up,” May 1]. Those of us, and we are many, working to stop the genocide in Gaza perpetrated by the Israeli government with the help of U.S. weapons, are tired of the press trying to conflate support for the Palestinians with antisemitism. The Recorder staff would be well advised to read up on the meaning of antisemitism and what makes someone a Semite. Most Palestinians by virtue of language, culture and place are Semites. Many Israelis, by virtue of coming to the Middle East from Europe are actually not Semites. Following this logic, Israel, with U.S. support, is practicing antisemitism on a devastating scale.

I noted with sorrow the Recorder’s editorial cartoon published on May 3, which honors the 58,220 American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. We grieve for those lost lives. But the cartoon is a lie, because it tells only a fraction of the story. For surely it is not just our own American soldiers who died that had lives worth living, and whose deaths are worth noting with grief. No one knows how many people died in that fruitless war, but one of the more recent estimates was a 2008 study by the British Medical Journal that estimated a total of 3,812,000 dead in Vietnam between 1955 and 2002. That’s not a number; those are people.

GREENFIELD — Children ages 4 to 12 are encouraged to stop by the Greenfield Public Library Children’s Room on Wednesday, May 7, between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. to make a colorful beaded suncatcher to bring home or to help decorate the library.