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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

COLRAIN — The Selectboard began considering implementation of a hybrid meeting structure on Tuesday, while also floating ideas for online community surveys that would be posted on the Colrain town website. New Town Administrator Diana Parsons said...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As part of a national effort to assess the accuracy of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) map of broadband access, local residents are being encouraged to provide insight through a survey between June 20 and July 20. According...

By DOMENIC POLI

ASHFIELD — It’s well-known that 3D printers can create objects like key chains and bottle openers. But how about military equipment to fend off a Russian invasion? Volunteers around the world are using the technology to manufacture everything from...

Spectrum has announced an expansion of its services to Warwick and Royalston, among other rural towns, through the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.According to the company’s announcement, Spectrum internet, phone and...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CHARLEMONT — In its first session of 2024, the Charlemont Forum is bringing artificial intelligence to the table, as the discussion series looks at media as its overarching topic this year.The Charlemont Forum’s 2024 season opens on Thursday, April...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Business has started buzzing at Busy Bee Computers at 22 Federal St.The family-run venture opened in mid-January and patriarch Doug Ely said he has carried over most of the extensive clientele he built up while operating the business out...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD – As the city and the Franklin Regional Council of Governments work toward a digital equity plan, a focus group at the Weldon House identified connectivity challenges in the former hotel on High Street as their biggest challenge.In...

By DEEPTI HAJELA

NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has signed an executive order to create a task force meant to study artificial intelligence and to advise her administration on the state’s role in implementing and encouraging private sector use of the new technology.The...

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst will lead a new $11.9 million center on offshore wind education, research and outreach to expedite development of offshore wind energy and train a national workforce to design, operate and manage the...

By VIRGINIA RAY

ASHFIELD — The Planning Board has granted telecommunications infrastructure developer Vertex Towers a six-month extension on its special permit to build a cell tower on Ridge Hill, a project that has been in the works for more than two years. “The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Planning Board has recently finalized new bylaws for personal wireless service facilities and is poised to present them at a public hearing, with plans to bring them to Annual Town Meeting this spring.“In general, it is very positive...

By DOMENIC POLI

Eversource has introduced to western Massachusetts equipment that can more quickly restore power to customers in the event of a downed or damaged utility pole.Rapid Pole technology was launched in New Hampshire 13 months ago and rolled out in this...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HAWLEY — The efforts behind the creation of the town’s new website are being recognized as the nonprofit Massachusetts Municipal Association has deemed Hawley to have the best website for a Massachusetts town with fewer than 5,000 residents.The new...

MONTAGUE — Informed by data and public feedback, the town is preparing its first-ever Digital Equity Plan in an effort to ensure all its residents have equal access to digital technologies — including the internet, computers and cellphones — as well...

By CARLA CHARTER

While work continues at the Wendell Historical Society’s new museum at the former depot store and post office, those interested in learning about the history of Wendell and the surrounding towns can view items from the society’s archives in its new...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Despite a complicated process of working with Eversource and Verizon, a majority of the survey work in the northern part of the city has been completed, affecting Precincts 1, 2 and 9, according to GCET General Manager John Lunt.“It has...

By LIESEL NYGARD

BERNARDSTON — The town launched a new website earlier this month, replacing its 7-year-old site with something fresh.Lou Bordeaux, who served as town coordinator until his retirement on Nov. 11, said he built the town’s new website after noticing how...

By BELLA LEVAVI

BERNARDSTON — Marking the near-completion of an $88,000 grant-funded project to bring digital literacy tools to seniors, the Bernardston Senior Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new computer lab on Tuesday.“It is tremendous,” Senior Center...