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By EMILEE KLEIN

HEATH — Community Hall remains closed after a broken pipe flooded the facility and damaged the sink cabinet, tile floor and the elevator pit earlier this month. While the leaks have been repaired and the elevator is operational, the floor on the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The Selectboard has decided not to go forward with participating in a community forum on naming the former school turned municipal offices at 18 Jacobs Road, a topic that inspired angry emails from at least 30 residents.“We decided at this...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Heath man was sentenced to five years in jail on Tuesday for trying to “hunt down” two of his friends in the woods while intoxicated in October 2020.Olin D. Schwenger-Sartz, 39, will serve consecutive 2½-year sentences at the Franklin...

Colrain student named to Castleton Dean’s List COLRAIN — Sarah Herzig of Colrain was named to the Dean’s List at Castleton University in Vermont for the fall 2022 semester.She previously attended Mohawk Trail Regional School and is the daughter of Ken...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Two Open Meeting Law complaints were filed with the Attorney General’s Office this month regarding government business in western Franklin County communities.One complaint was filed by Buckland resident Janet Sinclair against her town’s Conservation...

By VIRGINIA RAY

Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder has been publishing stories about what Franklin County residents can likely expect to see happening in their towns in 2023. Details about projects in the western part of the county were shared in two parts. This...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The Selectboard is going back to the drawing board in the process of renaming the former school turned municipal offices, after receiving roughly 30 emails from residents denouncing the board’s decision to call it the “Heath Community...

By PAUL FRANZ

HEATH — Deirdre Gleason was driving home to 161 Colrain Stage Road with her boyfriend and two young children when she noticed a column of smoke.“Oh my God, what’s going on?” she exclaimed.Her home was not on fire, but the adjacent standalone studio...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — After much back and forth as well as a looming lawsuit, AT&T, the Selectboard and a group of “interveners” have reached a settlement allowing the telecommunication company to build a cell tower on Rowe Road.The settlement, which the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — The weekend’s 104th Heath Fair had all the traditional activities one would expect: pulling events of all kinds, square dancing and fried dough. But although the three-day fair attracted many visitors to the grounds, it did not go off without...

By DOMENIC POLI

SHELBURNE — An area family has bought the former Strawberryfield antique shop at 1204 Mohawk Trail with plans to return the business to its previous identity.Wife and husband Katelyn Choiniere and Todd Gerry Jr. got the keys in December and closed on...