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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After months of anticipation, the Starbucks at 200 Mohawk Trail opened its doors Thursday morning to serve its first customer: 12-year-old Emma Lanoue, a seventh grader at Pioneer Valley Regional School.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Connecticut businessman has purchased two local dealerships from McGovern Automotive Group, though he decided to close one of them due to a perceived lack of feasibility behind a manufacturers’ request to relocate the business.

I want to congratulate Comrade Trump, General Bone Spurs, the Huckster-in-Chief, for working tirelessly to dismantle and degrade our government. With adroit aplomb and humor and a plethora of outright lies he has helped bring back racial distrust, religious acrimony, and sexual and gender hatred of differences. And let’s not forget misogyny.

The petitioners seeking changes to Greenfield’s bylaws have a weird obsession with so called ADUs (accessory dwelling units). One- through three-unit buildings are allowed by right in residential zones. Whether is it detached or within is irrelevant to the overall impact or zoning and setback regulation.

We would like to publicly thank the Greenfield Fire Department, and all the other town fire departments who fought the fire at 75 School St. on Sunday, March 2. We had a front row seat view of their bravery and skill, and also their kindness and thoughtfulness as they kept our house next door safe under very challenging conditions.

As the chair of the Greenfield City Council Appointments & Ordinances Committee, I invite community members to share your thoughts about local lawmaking. Every five years, the Greenfield City Council is mandated to review the city’s ordinances (all city laws minus the charter), and 2025 is that year.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

From Brockton to Buckland and Northfield to Newton, more than 60 municipal officials are asking lawmakers to take swift action to allow them to continue to hold remote and hybrid public meetings beyond the upcoming March 31 expiration of that pandemic-era policy.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Police Department is urging those who have applied for either new or renewed gun licenses to be patient, as it has been processing a weekly volume of applications that is roughly double what was seen in October.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — For her work supporting the youth of Franklin County through academics and music, Greenfield resident Gloria Matlock was recently honored with the Black Excellence on the Hill award from the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Public Library will welcome local author Rebecca Daniels on Tuesday, March 18, at 2 p.m. in the library’s Conference Room.

I’d like to request that the Recorder stop referring to the Department of Government Efficiency, as it did in the article about the potential closure of the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Amherst [“Federal office on Trump hit list,” March 10]. There is no department of government efficiency, and the president is not authorized to create departments by executive order.

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

GREENFIELD — With a 10-year background as a book editor specializing in personal growth books, Rachel Shields Ebersole is bringing her interest in literature and self-improvement to a new club.

By JOHN DAVID BOLES

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After the Planning Board voted unanimously to approve a series of housing-related ordinances last week, the Economic Development Committee is expected to discuss them, and potentially vote on them, Tuesday evening.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Latte lovers will have to wait until later this week for their favorite Starbucks beverage as, contrary to the corporation’s previous announcement that its 200 Mohawk Trail location would open Monday, March 10, it is now expected to open in a few days.

GREENFIELD — The LAVA Center at 324 Main St. will present its next installment of the monthly Writers Read series, featuring Joannah Whitney, Madeline Leue and Zachary Jacob, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m.

We elected a president, (not I) not a king. Trump’s address to the Congress was a diatribe of his accomplishments since the election. Most of his cabinet is chock full of people who donated to his campaign and were never involved in the cabinet posts before their appointments. hence they know nothing the daily operation of our government.

Someone recently wrote about discovering the closing of World Eye Bookshop. I, too, was very disheartened to see it closed.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — A new Starbucks location is expected to open Monday, March 10, at the site of the former Friendly’s at 200 Mohawk Trail, which closed in September after roughly 42 years in business.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — The LAVA Center has launched a new series of speaking programs designed to spark community conversations.