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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Across Franklin County and the North Quabbin region, volunteers are preparing to dish out meals on Thanksgiving to ensure no one goes hungry on the holiday, regardless of their financial circumstances.Stone Soup Café meal and Day of...

Local authors reading from book on ultimate FrisbeeGREENFIELD — Local authors Marc Guillaume and Terry Plotkin will read from their new book, “Ultimate Matters,” on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Greenfield Public Library. The novel follows a...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The annual “Break-athon” smashed into its 22nd year on Saturday morning, with the sound of boards breaking and a growing kindling stack signaling more money being raised for Warm the Children.Each board broken by the roughly 20...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Giving thanks is a personal and intimate decision. There is no formula to follow or equation to guide any of us. I cannot dictate to anyone why or for whom they should feel and express gratitude, and no one can advise me as to what I should be...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — In his first few months at the helm of the Greenfield Housing Authority, Executive Director Jack Redman is working to expand affordable and accessible housing.Redman, who spent the last 17 years working in low-income housing management —...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — City Council unanimously approved allocating $197,000 for emergency repairs at the Electric Light and Power Dam, also known as the Mill Street Dam, after engineers located a 10-foot-by-6-foot void at its bottom center. The repairs, which...

By AMALIA WOMPA

GREENFIELD — Francesca Passiglia, teen librarian at Greenfield Public Library, and Judy Raper, associate dean for community engagement at Greenfield Community College, put their heads together last year in an effort to combine their skills and...

By ALEXA LEWIS

The 15th annual March for the Food Bank with Monte Belmonte will once again traverse the 43 miles from Springfield to Greenfield over Monday and Tuesday.The march has come to be known not just for the creative costumes donned by marchers pushing...

I must agree with columnist Al Norman’s Nov. 20 column [“Wall Street landlords are coming to our zip code”]. He often has first-hand knowledge that I do not, but I can tell that “outsiders” of some sort are moving into this area, simply by following...

By JOHN DAVID BOLES

I have lived along the Green River for 45 years. One day in 1979 while swimming in the Green River, a woman told me she was selling a summer cottage just above the river. The moment I walked into the cabin, I knew this was the place I would grow old!...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

It’s not uncommon for the process of democracy to contain the seeds of its own destruction. It allows the people to freely elect the very person who has vowed to strangle it to death. Past examples are Adolf Hitler’s Reichstag victories in the 1930s...

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

GREENFIELD — Taking a break from class, Greenfield Tae Kwon Do Center instructors and members cut 2,800 boards in just two hours last weekend in preparation for their annual “Break-athon.”Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, instructors and...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The city is injecting $641,548 from new growth into the fiscal year 2025 tax levy, surpassing a $400,000 projection and marking the highest annual increase in new growth in more than four years.The tax levy’s added new growth in FY25...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With a tentative contract agreement in hand, American Medical Response (AMR) and Teamsters Local 404 union have averted a 10-day strike that was slated to go into effect on Sunday, Nov. 24.The union had previously approved the strike on...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — In an effort to keep the homeless warm as temperatures drop this season, Heather Perna, a nurse with RegalCare at Greenfield, is collecting sleeping bags to distribute in advance of Thanksgiving.Perna has partnered with Pastor Floyd...

By AHMAD ESFAHANI

Since the weather was forecast to be pleasant, I thought it might be fun to drive to Boston and walk in The Men’s March. Now did I do this because I support the abolition of abortion, or because I thrive in settings where pandemonium and chaos may...

By DOMENIC POLI

The Giving Back Together Toy Drive is gearing up for its 11th year and founder Heather Taylor said the charitable effort is extremely low on gifts to give to youngsters up to 18 years of age.The Athol resident started the toy drive to ensure no child...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — As part of an internationally recognized day to remember transgender and gender-diverse people whose lives ended as a result of hate crimes or suicides, Community Action Pioneer Valley welcomed the community to a Transgender Day of...

Enough already with the leaf blowers guys. Remember exercise keeps you young ... and is much quieter.Lucy FagellaGreenfield

By GARY GREENE

A recent letter writer offered up the anthem “96 Tears” by ? & the Mysterians in an effort to humble-gloat about Trump’s winning the election, to which I can only say (and I mean this sincerely) – Thank you!“96 Tears” is the perfect anthem for people...