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By JOHN BOS

Dear Readers and Friends,This is my last “Connecting the Dots” column. My time has come. It’s kind of a life review time. I am surrounded and supported by my family and an old friend of 60-plus years. Also, I feel support from members of my writing...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Health New England has awarded grants to three local nonprofits that work to advance youth health and well-being in western Massachusetts. Just Roots farm is receiving $3,000 to fund its Food Access for Youth & Families Program while...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Economic Development Committee is unanimously recommending to City Council that multi-family dwellings with 24 units or less be allowed by right, and that housing developments with 25 or more units be allowed by special permit in the...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Residents flocked to City Hall earlier this week to voice their opinions on a proposed regulation that, if passed by City Council, would ban rooster ownership without a special permit in the city’s urban and suburban residential...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Jeremy Goldsher has had “a lot and also not very much” going on in the past 12 months.The co-founder of Greenspace CoWork has been on dialysis for a year after being diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, a result of the genetic...

By AMALIA WOMPA

By creating monthly storytelling open mic sessions for community members to share their most disastrous moments, The LAVA Center provides an opportunity to “learn things about people that wouldn’t normally come up in conversation,” in the words of...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A rollicking group who bonded through a class at Franklin County’s YMCA in Greenfield have produced a calendar for 2025 that celebrates beautiful humans in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Let’s meet some water nymphs who could grace your wall if you get...

The city of Greenfield has hired its third finance director this year. Consistent with my Oct. 22, 2024, letter to the dditor, the high turnover in the first year of Mayor Virginia Desorgher’s administration, especially the continued turnover in the...

LAVA Center presents Climate Change Theater 2024: ‘In It Together’ GREENFIELD — The LAVA Center at 324 Main St. will present a mixed-media program of short videos and play readings on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Masks are required at the 2...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Following months of discussions on ways to make schools safer, the School Committee has voted unanimously to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Police Department that allows officers to monitor the schools’ live security...

By JON HUER

In 1814, Napoleon escaped from the island of Alba where he had been exiled after the disastrous Russian campaign. The newspapers in Paris reported: “Devil escapes from Alba.” Upon the news of his escape, many former French soldiers joined him in his...

Tuesday, Nov. 19 9:08 a.m. — Cameron L. Avery, 49, homeless of Greenfield, was arrested on a warrant on Main Street.9:09 a.m. — Breaking and entering into a vehicle, a blue 2014 Honda CR-V, reported on Columbus Avenue. Report issued.9:46 a.m. — Report...

By AMALIA WOMPA

GREENFIELD — Girl Scout Troops 40566 and 65201 are holding their Ski, Snowboard and Skate Sale this weekend, ushering in the 70th year of the tradition.Patrons can visit the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew at 8 Church St. on Friday, Dec....

A collective noun is that fun aspect of grammar which denotes groups of animals, people and things. Perhaps you’ve heard of a gaggle of geese, a parliament of owls or a convocation of eagles.I have created collective nouns for people in professions...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Following the resignation of former Finance Director Stella Chan, Weston Public Schools’ Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations at Stephen Nembirkow has taken the helm of the city’s Finance Department.Nembirkow, a licensed...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Planning Board has approved the site plan for a mixed-use housing and cannabis retail development being proposed for 220-228 Main St.According to records obtained from the state’s property records database, Florida-based developer...

If this is Donald Trump’s America, I want more of it. After years of doom and gloom politics and being shamed, for wrong think, we now have a reason to celebrate. MAGA is unapologetically alive, well and celebrating. The Trump dance has popped up...

Regarding the letter “Tragedy of Palestine still being written,” [Recorder, Dec. 2], the writer implies Zionists wanted “to plant the Western flag in the oil and gas rich Arab world.” Well Israel has no oil, but please don’t let facts get in the way...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Three weeks after the Franklin County YMCA submitted its permit to demolish the Zion Korean Church, the Historical Commission voted unanimously to declare the 182-year-old church historically significant and hold a public hearing before a...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — A Shelburne Falls playwright is developing a play about the life of an emergency management coordinator during a global pandemic, and is looking for audience feedback.Two free readings of “How to Fold a Fitted Sheet and Other...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — More than $100,000 was stolen from the “ATM Tree” in the Big Y plaza early Friday morning in a robbery that Police Chief Todd Dodge said was likely not performed by amateurs.“We can expect at this point that the individuals who were...