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“Urinetown,” the musical, a 2001 Broadway play with two Tony Awards to its credit, is being performed by the Wild Goose Players at the Bellows Falls Opera House on March 30-31, and April 1.This rural Vermont community theatre has a plethora of talent...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Family and friends will gather for a celebration of life on April 20 for Montague resident Garrett Giustina, who was killed in a single-vehicle crash along Turners Falls Road earlier this month.Giustina, 22, and formerly of South Hadley,...

Wednesday, March 153:02 p.m. — Caller on Dunton Street reports receiving a call from someone telling her that she needed to pick up $2,000 worth of gift cards and that they would be sending an officer to her house the following day. Caller was advised...

By MARY BYRNE

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder has been providing regular updates on the risk level of COVID-19 transmission as wastewater testing results are received.The COVID-19 transmission risk remains “moderate” in the four communities involved in the...

National Spiritual Alliance holding psychic fair in Lake Pleasant LAKE PLEASANT — The National Spiritual Alliance is holding a psychic fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at Thompson Temple, 2 Montague Ave. To register or find more...

Wednesday, March 8 8:32 a.m. — Caller on Oakman Street states she received a call from someone who claimed to be her daughter and stated she was in an accident. Caller contacted her daughter after the call and found she wasn’t in an accident. Caller...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — After 26 years working in Town Hall, longtime Town Clerk Deb Bourbeau says she is ready to “live life to the fullest from here on out.” Bourbeau, 65, alluded to her retirement during Montague’s Special Town Meeting earlier this month in an...

The former strip club, Club Castaway, may be reopening as a topless pot dispensary, described as “harmless in comparison” to the former night club and alcohol scene, according to recent news articles with the headlines, “Cannabis with a twist.”...

By RUSS PIRKOT

With the recent reopening of the General Pierce Bridge, it feels both timely and relevant to share who the bridge was named for, and how the naming came to be. Many thanks to the Greenfield Public Library and their newspaper archives for much of this...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — As the “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” exhibit is set to bid Montague adieu this Saturday, program partners say they are gratified with how the experience has gone.“I am thrilled with the way everything came out,” said Suzanne...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District School Committee unanimously approved its $27.48 million fiscal year 2024 budget on Tuesday, with changes stemming primarily from contract negotiations and enrollment figures.The budget is a...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — A Montague man died early Monday morning after his car struck a tree along Turners Falls Road, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.Garrett Giustina, 22, of Laurel Lane, was pronounced dead at the scene after crashing...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Trinity Health of New England is poised to begin exterior demolition of the Farren Care Center as soon as late March, Assistant Town Administrator Walter Ramsey informed the Selectboard on Monday.“Interior demolition has begun and we could...

I find the idea of replacing the Schell Bridge with a bike/pedestrian bridge an incredible waste of funds. In Franklin County, almost every town has decaying and closed bridges: two closed in Montague Center, one partially closed in Erving, the two...

Monday, Feb. 20 6:44 p.m. — Abandoned 911 call from Turners Falls Road. Upon callback, reporting party states he saw a car at a stop sign and heard a 12-year-old boy scream for help. Reporting party believes the vehicle was a Jeep Wrangler, last seen...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Red Fire Farm’s Ryan and Sarah Voiland joined hundreds of farmers from across the U.S. for a climate rally in Washington D.C. last week, marching to the Capitol before meeting with legislators to ask for climate change policy to be a...

Gill-Montague School Committee nomination papers now available Nomination papers for School Committee seats that will be on the May 16 annual town election ballot are now available at the Gill-Montague Regional School District Superintendent’s Office...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The Montague Elks Lodge will host live music and a pasta dinner on Saturday to raise money for the family of Andy Hill, an Erving resident who is recovering from a brain aneurysm he suffered in January.Jodi Winter-Chaplin, who organized the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The Attorney General’s Office has determined that members of the Board of Assessors violated the Open Meeting Law when they met in October 2022.The determination, announced in a letter to Montague Director of Assessing Karen Tonelli, was...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The online rumor mill started up as soon as Seana Pitts made an announcement on social media.“The minute I posted on Facebook people were like, ‘Are you and Shannon OK?’” she said. “Like it has to be something terrible that happened,...