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By SAMUEL GELINAS

SPRINGFIELD — Bishop William Byrne was just as caught off guard as everyone else Thursday when white smoke marked the election of Pope Leo XIV, who will reign as the next pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Community members looking to own a piece of Shelburne Falls history are in luck.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The city’s shift from using a dual-stream recycling method to single-stream recycling will take effect in July, according to Department of Public Works Director Marlo Warner II.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After rainstorms brought flooding to the region last weekend that impacted the city’s homeless population, members of the newly formed Unhoused Community Committee discussed forming designated camping areas for the homeless.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — The first 17 articles were approved Wednesday during the first part of Montague’s Annual Town Meeting, with the $12.75 million operating budget, school assessments and the first few capital projects passing after spirited discussion.

By NICOLE WINFIELD

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Salmon Falls Gallery has two new exhibits on display showcasing the works of Hawley artist Trina Sears Sternstein and southern Vermont artist Bobbi Angell.

By RYAN AMES

It’s a Sweet 16 for the UMass women’s lacrosse team. Well, actually, not exactly.

By DAVID PARRELLA

There has always been a sentiment in our country to get small.

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

Two weeks ago, the life-saving medication that I receive three times a year was injected through a spinal tap into my cerebrospinal fluid. Call it women’s intuition, but my mom and I both had the feeling that something would be different this time. It could’ve been because the last injection I had in December was particularly brutal due to the build-up of scar tissue that had formed in the area of my spinal canal that they typically drill into. The doctor who does the drilling could feel the scar tissue and see the amount of pain I was in.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — Residents will be asked to consider a $1.23 million total budget for fiscal year 2026 at Annual Town Meeting on Monday, May 12.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — Flis Market has been serving homemade, wood-fired pizza every Wednesday since January, and customer demand has led owners Jon and Liz Flis to expand the offering to Thursdays and Fridays as well.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS — A pair of Western Mass. softball powers met at Gary Mullins Field Wednesday night. 

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Julian Kaiser was on his game on the mound for the Turners Falls baseball team on Wednesday. 

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Greenfield High School alum Owen Phelps closed out his baseball career at Castleton University in Vermont last week. 

By RYAN AMES

HADLEY – Another standout performance from Hannah Gilbert and some timely hitting helped the Franklin Tech softball team to a key Franklin County League East victory on Wednesday.

SHELBURNE — After tackling the financial articles on the Annual Town Meeting warrant, Shelburne voters agreed to continue the meeting to tonight (Wednesday, May 7) at 6:30 p.m. in the second-floor auditorium at Memorial Hall to take up the remaining articles that address zoning bylaws and a short-term rental bylaw.

WENDELL — Adam Feltman collected 87 votes in his uncontested bid for a three-year Selectboard seat during Monday’s town election.

By ALEXA LEWIS

HOLYOKE — Unperturbed by the rain that pelted their colorful signs, dozens of impassioned community members hailing from cities and towns across the region gathered in song and frustration to protest state clean energy siting practices they think will be more harmful to the environment than helpful.

By CHRIS LARABEE

With its regional agreement sent off to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a technical review, the Six Town Regionalization Planning Board is expecting to bring its new school district proposal to voters in the fall.