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By GRACE BIRD

TURNERS FALLS — After 31 years in practice, all four primary care doctors and co-owners of Connecticut River Internists will retire at the end of the year.While the doctors — Drs. Joseph Viadero, Adam Blacksin, Wayne Gavryck and Laurence Klein — were...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — With Textür Beauty Bar and Textür Blow Out Bar in two towns, owner Carleigh Dlugosz said she wants to bring “a driving energy” to both locations.Dlugosz, a Turners Falls resident who previously co-owned Lavish on Chapman Street with...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Rise Above Bakery and Cafe was merely a product of the imagination of a wide-eyed 20-something in his native New Hampshire.It was around when he had met his wife during his freshman year of college, but before he left school to pursue his...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Questions of proper communication among School Committee members have flared back up following the filing of an Open Meeting Law complaint by a member of the education task force for Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution...

By PASTOR BRETT REITENBACH

(Each Saturday, a faith leader in Franklin County offers a personal perspective in this space. To become part of this series, email religion@recorder.com) The subject of water-baptism is handled differently among various churches and religions. These...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD – The mother and daughter traumatized by the arson of two barns on their property five years ago had their voices heard the day one of the men convicted in that crime was sentenced to an extra year in prison for a probation violation.Lisa...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Letting those New Year’s resolutions fall by the wayside just got a bit more difficult, as a Planet Fitness franchise has opened in the Big Y plaza.Tom Sullivan, who has owned a Planet Fitness in Gardner for five years, said the new...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — The “most significant seizure of heroin within the Northwestern District in recent memory,” has led to an eight-year state prison sentence for a Greenfield man, according to Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Bucci.Stephen Hall, 28,...

By PASTOR BRETT REITENBACH

(Each Saturday, a faith leader in Franklin County offers a personal perspective in this space. To become part of this series, email religion@recorder.com)By PASTOR BRETT REITENBACH Most of humanity is well-acquainted with wrongs being committed, both...

By DAN DESROCHERS

GREENFIELD — With metal, as in the likes of Iron Maiden, not iron, Matt Kim just feels better.Listening to the soul-thumping drums, driving bass lines, and most importantly, high-octane guitar riffs, keeps Kim grounded. He found a permanency in metal,...

(Each Saturday, a faith leader in Franklin County offers a personal perspective in this space. To become part of this series, email religion@recorder.com or call 413-772-0261, ext. 265.)Gun violence is on all our minds these days. The recent loss of...

By DAVID McLELLAN

GREENFIELD — Joshua Hart and Brittany Smith will spend their lives behind bars for murdering an elderly couple in Orange.Judge John Agostini gave each Hart, 25, and Smith, 29, both of Athol, two life sentences without the possibility of parole, to be...

Pastor BRETT REITENBACH

(Each Saturday, a faith leader in Franklin County offers a personal perspective in this space. To become part of this series, email religion@recorder.com or call 413-772-0261, ext. 265.)What’s in a name? Names are used to both identify and describe.On...

By AVIVA LUTTRELL

GREENFIELD — Forty years ago this week, the Blizzard of 1978 slammed New England, dumping as much as 30 inches of snow on Franklin County.Even as today’s messy storm took aim at New England, Ralph Gordon, 82, remembered the historic 1978 storm well....

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — The former superintendent is running for re-election, aspiring to move from a two-year term to a four-year term on the Greenfield School Committee.Susan Hollins is the current head of the policy subcommittee, an influential group that has...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — After stepping down as principal of Greenfield High School last year, Donna Woodcock is now seeking candidacy as School Committee member for the two-year seat.Running against Susan Eckstrom, whose specialty comes in her special education...

By ANDY CASTILLO

GREENFIELD — “See your great-great grandfather?” Jim Lunt asked his young son, Denham Lunt, pointing at a black-and-white portrait of George C. Lunt, who established Lunt Silversmiths in 1902.The portrait was on display Saturday at the Historical...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

GREENFIELD – A photographer best known for his photographs of nude adolescents was arraigned Friday in Greenfield District Court on charges of statutory rape of a 14-year-old Northfield Mount Hermon School student about 40 years ago, when he worked...

By AVIVA LUTTRELL

GREENFIELD — A 22-year-old Greenfield man was arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography after police executed a search warrant at his home.Jameson B. Clevenger of Prospect Street was arrested Monday night after police say he...

By ANDY CASTILLO

GREENFIELD — A rocking chair is prominent inside Baystate Franklin Medical Center’s birthing center — that’s where volunteer cuddlers provide human touch, which some mother’s aren’t able to give.Linda Jablonski, assistant manager of obstetrics, said...