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Barton Cove boat ramp closing GILL — The boat ramp at Barton Cove will temporarily close for construction starting Monday, Oct. 7. According to a post on the Gill Police Department’s Facebook page, the parking lot will be resurfaced for around two...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Thanks to a $13,000 Community Compact grant, Gill will work with the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management on a wage classification study, the first that Gill has done in roughly two decades.The...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Residents of Montague, Gill and Erving won’t have to look far to find a fall festival this weekend, with abundant activities planned on Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29. Gill Community Contra Dance and Fall Festival The second annual Gill...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Archaeologists studying the Great Falls Massacre have made progress in their pursuit to understand the 1676 battle with new musket ball and artifact discoveries near Meridian Street, Colorado Avenue, Colrain Road and Nash’s Mill Road in...

Gill-Montague School Committee seeks new memberMONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District has an open School Committee seat for a Montague resident.Interested Montague residents should email Executive Assistant Tara McCarthy at...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ORANGE — Carolyn Gilmore was informed by her midwives that the labor process for a second child typically goes faster than the first. However, Gilmore wasn’t expecting to deliver her second child within a half hour of her water breaking, nor in the...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE – Shawn Rickan has started as the new principal of Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School as the school year begins for the Gill-Montague Regional School District (GMRSD).During a School Committee meeting on Tuesday, GMRSD...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL – Earlier this summer, Stacey Hamel heard a rumor that since the barriers were placed on the French King Bridge in August 2023, neither Gill nor Erving first responders have been called to the bridge for rescue of people in crisis, or recovery of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — After 50 years of working at Foster’s Supermarket, Gary Stevens is getting ready to check out.The Gill resident started his career on Jan. 25, 1974, and eight years later became the grocery manager, a position he will retire from on Aug....

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — A baby girl was born on the side of the French King Highway on Wednesday afternoon just west of the French King Bridge.Orange Fire Chief James Young confirmed that the baby was born in the vehicle prior to the arrival of emergency responders....

Who else is tired of all the lies from the left? They keep preaching that the biggest danger to the country is far-right extremists. Maybe the left should look within. Wasn’t it the left who told police to stand down during all the violent protests...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — As numerous projects and initiatives continue to move forward, the town has tapped a longtime public servant to be its assistant town administrator.The Selectboard last week approved the hiring of Greg Snedeker, a former music and...

“The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind” Bob Dylan, 1962.Climate activists, ol’ hippies don’t like the answer the wind provided to the turbines in Nantucket Sound.A more than 300-foot-long turbine blade broke off, sending shards of fiberglass to...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Marking the return of the annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, paddlers set off from Barton Cove on Friday, with a traditional Wampanoag dugout canoe called a mishoon leading a group of kayaks, canoes and paddle boards down the Connecticut...

By LIESEL NYGARD

GILL — After at least 47 years of combined service, the leaders of the Gill Newsletter have retired and passed the torch on to their successors.In March, editor Susan LaScala, along with Barbara Watson who solicits advertisements and Harry van Baaren...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — The Christmas in July celebration has been a local tradition since 2003. In the last four years, though, cancellations or delays have become secondary traditions, impacting the event’s continuity.Longtime organizer Sharon Constantine is hopeful...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — When the traveling youth circus troupe Circus Smirkus comes to the Franklin County Fairgrounds this weekend, the roster of performers includes one Franklin County resident.The Greensboro, Vermont-based troupe, made up of youths ages 11 to...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — In the two decades since the Wagon Wheel Restaurant opened its doors, owners Carolann Zaccara and Jon Miller have seen both the positives and negatives of starting a business full-time.“There’s been a lot of positive things,” Miller said. “The...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — After serving a combined 18 years as an officer and sergeant, Police Sgt. Jason Bassett plans to retire from full-time work at the end of August.Bassett, 52, first began working as a part-time officer for Gill in 2006 and left in 2008 to serve...

Our state continues to hemorrhage citizens. According to IRS data and reported in The Boston Herald last month. This state lost $3.9 billion dollars in tax revenues in 2022.Buyers remorse for “Fair Share” millionaires tax, anyone?Yet, they’ll spend...