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By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — Clinician Leeanne Hadsel began her duty serving alongside local police departments last week, marking what she called a “cultural” next step forward in providing mental health services to those in crisis.Motivated by a regional history of...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Behavioral Health Network has partnered with the Community Health Center of Franklin County to start the state’s first rural methadone clinic, which opened this past week.The new Orange Opioid Treatment Program is located at 119 New Athol...

GREENFIELD — Baystate Franklin Medical Center has resumed orthopedic surgeries after nearly a year, thanks to the addition of board-certified orthopedic surgeon Dr. Colin S. Cooper to its medical staff.Cooper has joined Baystate Franklin as part of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — With the opening of his new practice on Federal Street, one Greenfield native hopes to expand access to primary care in an area where there continues to be a shortage of providers.“One of the many big motivators of me starting this...

By MAX MARCUS

GREENFIELD — Now under new ownership, The Body Shoppe’s fitness center is focusing on personal training while continuing the gym’s 35-year legacy.Co-owners Steve Ferry and Ryan Trusevitch, both fitness trainers, now run the fitness center under the...

By DOMENIC POLI

ATHOL — Quabbin Valley Healthcare is now in its third month of new ownership.Scott Wheeler and several partners from Blupoint Healthcare purchased the facility at 821 Daniel Shays Highway from Cambridge Healthcare Group on Jan. 1. Wheeler said except...