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The Hampshire League North title came down to the wire this winter. 

By GARRETT COTE

WOODFORD, Vt. — The conditions couldn’t have been better at the 2025 MIAA Nordic Ski Championships Tuesday afternoon, and with the amount of waxing Mohawk Trail head coach Mark Pollard did the night before, his Warriors boys and girls teams could feel a difference immediately as they blazed through the trails at Prospect Mountain.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — The public is invited to the Garden Cinemas Thursday evening for the premiere of “Rethinking Recovery,” a documentary that Four Rivers Charter Public School’s senior class has been working to produce for the past five months.

Highest Honors: Haddie Connelley, Elizabeth Derivolkova, Savanna Petrie, Derek Scotera, Dylan Vernon and Kayden Viencek.

High Honors: Autumn Belanger, Katelyn Bozek, Sallie Flynn, Augustus Foote, Elliot Franetovich, Miley Frey, Maddan Garcia, Elizabeth Gilmore, Raelyn Hildreth, Grayson Johnson, Annabelle Koshinsky, Samantha Krumm-Poulin, Jared Lanoue, Everett Long, Tamsin Macmillan, Cooper Morey, Adalyn Nevins, Addison Putman, Andrew Redeker, Kaden Shearer, Zoey-Mae Shearer, Adaline Sullivan, Shae Swindell, Rheia Thomasson, Alaina Toothaker, Gunnar Triggs, Sadie Wilcox and Liam Zarotny.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Pioneer Valley Regional School administrators said they are deepening their commitment to investing in curriculum, staff compensation and facilities in the fiscal year 2026 budget presentation last week.

It was a Senior Night to remember for the Greenfield hockey team.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The selectboards and finance committees of Gill and Montague met with Gill-Montague Regional School District administrators this week to review the proposed fiscal year 2026 school budget ahead of a Feb. 11 public hearing.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier girls basketball team hasn’t had many tests this season. 

By SAM DRYSDALE

Any selective criteria used to admit students to vocational technical schools must be actually essential to the success of the school, per new regulations the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is drafting for their board’s review in February.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, is seeking community feedback as it contemplates models for possible restructuring of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts in an effort to maintain or improve the experience of students while taking into account the fiscal limitations of the districts’ small member towns.

By DOUG SELWYN

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka recently stated that she was hearing from senators around the state that schools within their districts were badly underfunded and so it was time to re-examine the state’s approach to funding, which is welcome news. I hope that President Spilka and her colleagues take the time to listen to and take seriously the stories that those actually working in the schools have to tell about the impact of underfunding on the children and education workers across the state. It is one thing to look at funding formulas, and quite another to realize that the numbers on the page carry a real impact on the lives of real children. That became very clear to me at a recent Zoom on educational funding.

High Honors: Brayden Bailey, Benjamin Baker, Cole Bassett, Mason Bassett, Owen Bliss, Joseph Bobala, Autora Brown, David Chagnon, Kairi Chubb, Izzabella Clarke, Nicholas Constantine, Allan Cordero Lopez, Makalya Craig, Oliver Cranston, Joseph DiSciullo, John Duncan, Everett Eichorn, Aubrie Fitzgerald, Laura Fuess, Brady Gancarz, Zoe Gledhill, Jonathan Holmes, Jeremiah Jones, Olivia Kaleta, Maxwell Kenfield, Kylie Krupinski, Cecelia Laflamme, Carter Leete, Joshua Leonovich, Tyler Lively, Jedidiah Niquette, Madisyn Pelletier, Madison Pettengill, Adam Phillips, Makayla Pierce, Mylena Prunier, Travis Rathburn, Everia Rivera, Sienna Robidoux, Luke Sheridan, Landon Smead, La’Naija Smith, Kendra Steiner, Aiden Taylor, Ava Taylor, Brooke Taylor, Jeanna Taylor, Jacob Thomas, Isabel Thompson, Rhys Urkiel, Keith Warger, Landon Warger, Nathan Warger, Holden Wolfe, Cody Yetter, Zia Zaykoski and Mercury Ziff.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Gill-Montague Regional School District’s $1.3 million projected budget shortfall for fiscal year 2026 has been mitigated, and a revised preliminary budget was unanimously approved by the School Committee Tuesday night.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield High School students raised more than $10,500 for Special Olympics Massachusetts as part of the first mobile polar plunge in western Massachusetts.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield High School junior Nate Woodard has been elected to serve as vice chair of the Human Rights Commission.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Northfield Mount Hermon School announced Thursday that it received a $50 million bequest from the late John Mitchell, representing the largest donation received by NMH and one of the largest given to an independent school in the country.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — While the Winchester High School Selection Committee only moved Hinsdale High School to the next stage in its process of finding an anchor school for high schoolers from Winchester, New Hampshire, the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is planning on staying in the mix as a choice school.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A New Salem company has been tapped to construct an outdoor classroom pavilion at Fisher Hill Elementary School.