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This is in response to the March 22 Recorder article “Abutters speak out on proposed dog shelter.” I have been a volunteer at the Franklin County sheriff’s office dog shelter for over 12 years, almost from its inception. I was at the meeting in Deerfield on March 20 and thought I was going to have to stand up and sing the praises of the shelter.

BERNARDSTON — With Pioneer Valley Regional School’s seventh and eighth grade classes preparing to head to New York City to see “The Outsiders” on Broadway, the Bernardston Kiwanis Club is dedicating its monthly chicken pot pie fundraiser to closing the financial gap.

The Six Town Regionalization Planning Board is looking for a name for the proposed combined school districts of Pioneer Valley Regional School and Gill-Montague.

By JUDY WAGNER

Oh, days of uncertainty! By nature, March leaves us in doubt. To look at the landscape is to see uncertainty and confusion. Is the grass greening or is it my willful imagination? Will it stay warmer or will we be blanketed in snow again? Are the tree buds swelling or staying firmly, tightly, safely wrapped?

A community circle practice, “Centering Social Activism,” will be held on Wednesday, March 26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Northfield First Church. Guided by church member Jennifer Smith, we will share and examine our reactions to changes happening in our country right now.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

The Deerfield Valley Art Association’s fifth annual photography exhibit will be on display at the Fiddleheads Gallery through March 30. 

By MARGOT FLECK

The Recorder’s March 11 story “Rubio says purge of USAID is complete, made my day. What’s the big deal? People get fired every day everywhere for all sorts of reasons. The only people upset about radical leftists losing their jobs are radical leftists. The rest of us are deliriously happy over current events.

BERNARDSTON — The Falltown String Band is coming to the Bernardston Senior Center on March 17 for the center’s Monday Cafe series.

By DON SIMMS

“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — More environmental education opportunities will be coming to Pioneer Valley Regional School in the fall, as the school received $75,000 to boost its environmental science Innovation Career Pathway program.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

NORTHFIELD — Firefighters came to the rescue of a 6-month-old border collie Tuesday evening after it fell through the ice of the partially melted Connecticut River.

BERNARDSTON — The United Church of Bernardston at 58 Church St. will host its penultimate roast beef supper of the season on Saturday, March 8.

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — The Northfield Planning Board has filed its response to BlueWave Solar’s appeal of the denial of a special permit for a second proposed solar array on Pine Meadow Road, with the board denying all allegations and calling upon the solar company to prove its claims, according to documents filed in Land Court on Tuesday.

It’s hard not to see parallels between Donald Trump’s deals with Vladimir Putin and the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by Britain and France in the 1930s. However, Trump is performing even more like the USSR and Italy, who went beyond acceptance and emboldenment of Nazi aggression to ally with Hitler and opportunistically mimic him. Like Stalin and Mussolini, Trump treats a disordered world as an exciting opening, and has talked of claiming Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Gaza as U.S. territory.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

NORTHFIELD — Trinitarian Congregational Church will kick off its 200th anniversary celebration on March 9 with a presentation on the church’s history by local historian Joel Fowler.

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — BlueWave Solar is appealing the Northfield Planning Board’s unanimous denial of a special permit for a second proposed project on Pine Meadow Road, claiming the rejection “exceeded the board’s authority, was based on a legally untenable ground, [and] was arbitrary and capricious,” according to documents filed with Land Court.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Just five and a half months after implementing a cellphone ban for students, the effects are clear to Pioneer Valley Regional School District administrators: students are paying more attention in class and socializing among themselves instead of through a screen.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — While other districts are currently setting their competency determinations in the wake of Question 2, the Pioneer Valley Regional School District will instead take its time.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee last week approved the administration’s $17.46 million budget for fiscal year 2026, thus sending the proposal along for Annual Town Meeting approval.