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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — For her work supporting the immigrant community housed at the Days Inn shelter before its February closure, Wendy Goodman has received the 2024 Human Rights Award.

7:52 a.m. — Vandalism reported on Phillips Street. Report issued.

By AL NORMAN

Citizens in a democracy should expect full transparency from government. “It is our goal to provide as much information to our citizens,” the city of Greenfield says on its website, “to promote a transparent government for our citizens.” The opposite of transparency is opacity.

Last Saturday morning, April 12, I co-led with Court Dorsey a mini-nonviolence training in Montague. If you remember that morning you woke to cold weather, snow or rain, a most unappealing day! Despite the weather about 100 people came to the meeting hall. They came, some said because they wanted to stand with our neighbors, our most vulnerable neighbors. They did not come as partisans, they came because they have the right under our Constitution to speak out on the issues of the day.

High Honors: Oliver Audet, Chazz Badillo, Leah Batiste, Phineas Brown, Elijah Cheney, Nyexziel Colon, Wesley Darling, Ian Degen, Gianna Haselton, Anmol Kanojia, Clara Kelsey, Rylan McIver, Gracie Medina, Lila Nietsche, Conor O’Connell, Mahir Patel, Cecily Paterno, Joe Proietti, Jake Pulizari, Samantha Rider, Greyson Roberts, Esme Sautter, Kadence Spring, Agnesse Suther, Elias Tripp, Amelia Waldron and Vasher Westfall.

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — As is always the case when western Massachusetts heavyweights Hampshire Regional and Greenfield meet on the softball diamond, high-level pitching was on display Monday afternoon. The Green Wave rely on senior MacKenzie Paulin, a Merrimack commit, while the Raiders typically give the ball to sophomore Ryanne Dubay, who will have her fair share of college offers when the time comes.

By CHRIS LARABEE

Beginning more than a decade ago and wrapping up in 2016, a wide-ranging coalition in western Massachusetts banded together to resist Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.’s Northeast Energy Direct project, which proposed a pipeline running through eight Franklin County towns.

By MICHAEL FLECK

For the past few months several pundits and former government officials, both Democrat and Republican, have said, referring to the Trump administration, “These are not serious people.” They said this about RFK, Jr. (as he emphasized the value of treating measles with cod liver oil and vitamin A); about Pete Hegseth (during his nomination process and as Signalgate unfolded); and about Donald Trump himself (as he mused about a third term saying that tariffs are taxes on other countries, mentioned the possibility of invading Greenland, and imposed tariffs on an island of penguins).

A recent column in this paper suggests that “fear” is being used to argue about the benefits of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) [”ADUs and politics of fear,” April 9]. I think “facts” can be scary to some people, but here’s the truth:

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Fourth Grade Newton Elementary School teacher Rachel Haag said she knew she had been selected for a Grinspoon Award when Superintendent Karin Patenaude and Assistant Superintendent Stephen Sullivan walked into her office with flowers one day.

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

This period of time can be seen as suffocating and paralyzing for many. We’re in trouble, our country is hurting big time, and many are suffering. At times like this, people have a stark choice to make — how and do we move forward?

Greenfield built this beautiful new senior center which is so underused and uninviting. There’s no sense of community there. Virtually no activities. Senior art shows? Quilting circles? BINGO? Senior dances? Anything? What exactly is the director’s job if not create activities and promote the center as a place our seniors want to go to. I encourage the director to explore new ways to serve the elders in our community. Please.

I thought that I might offer Donald Trump some wisdom; he seems to be in dire need of help. Here is, “the first rule of holes,” wisdom which I have found very helpful, and he seems to need this rule. Here it is, “When you find yourself up to your neck in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”

I’d like to offer some points of clarification regarding the recent Recorder article, “Commission calls for public hearing on dam” (April 8). First, although I am a retired fish biologist/scientist emeritus with the USGS, I am currently a volunteer consultant for the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) for their dam removal projects, not a CRC staff member.

I am very disappointed in the coverage I saw in the Recorder of the Hands Off! demonstrations on April 5.  Not only did it not get the lead, it was hidden further back in section B and it only covered local events.  There were over five million people demonstrating across the country and millions more around the world.  There were three buses that went to Boston and 11 more from western Massachusetts.  Isn’t any of this newsworthy?  What Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the other billionaires are doing to this country is treason and not having the free press documenting this and our efforts to stop it only distorts the truth.  Please do better on future demonstrations which will be many.

GREENFIELD — Stoneleigh-Burnham School won first place during the annual Public Speaking Tournament that was hosted on its campus on Sunday, April 6.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Southbridge man was sentenced on Friday to time served and two years’ probation after changing his plea on four charges related to a 2023 incident in which a man was stabbed in Orange before the assailants led police on a high-speed chase that ended in Belchertown.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — There were 558,899 victims of child abuse and neglect nationwide in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Maltreatment Report from that year.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The School Committee voted unanimously to keep the fifth and eighth grade classes at their current schools for next school year after the mayor’s fiscal year 2026 budget brought significant restraints amid previous plans to redistrict next school year.

By ALLEN WOODS

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave a heartfelt, but politically disastrous speech. He described an American “crisis in confidence.” People faced a stubborn Mideast hostage crisis, long lines at gas stations for scarce, expensive gas, the highest inflation rate of any presidential term in history (almost 10%!), and unemployment rates of nearly 8% (inherited from the previous Ford administration).