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By CHRIS LARABEE

LEYDEN — After a year of work and walkthroughs, members of the town’s Building Needs Study Committee have presented their list of immediate and essential repairs needed for town properties.In all, the board has identified about $351,000 in needed...

Bishop William Byrne’s Dec. 6 guest column “A message of welcome to the LGBTQ+ community” is disingenuous in the extreme. He and a group called Catholics for Inclusion have met “to discuss how the Catholic churches in our area can become genuinely...

By DOMENIC POLI

LEYDEN — The Leyden United Methodist Church has taken its lumps in the past few years, and parishioners hope a holiday craft fair, paired with a crowdfunding campaign, can help raise the money needed to keep the doors open.The craft fair is scheduled...

By RHONDA WAINSHILBAUM

This is a scary time to be Jewish. Our world turned upside down on Oct. 7. Innocent Israelis were brutally murdered while their Hamas assassins happily filmed the torture of children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.We...

Monthly puzzle swap planned for Saturday, Dec. 2 NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.Attendees are advised to park in the back and enter through the side door of the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Just days after more than 40 town officials, school representatives and other stakeholders convened to consider what regionalization of the Gill-Montague and Pioneer Valley regional school districts might entail, the Pioneer School...

Winery event to mark 11th anniversaryNORTHFIELD — To celebrate its 11th anniversary, Cameron’s Winery at 1046 Millers Falls Road will host a Wine, Cider and Brews Dinner Pirate Party on Saturday, Nov. 18, starting at 7 p.m.Greenfield’s El Greco...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Ahead of this week’s second public forum on facilities planning, the consulting company leading the process briefed the Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee on its initial survey data.At the School Committee’s Oct. 26...

By MARY BYRNE

NORTHFIELD — After a review of four years worth of financial data for the Pioneer Valley Regional School District, officials recommended Thursday that the district return $740,214 to its three member towns, decreasing the overall assessment compared...

Monthly puzzle swap planned for Saturday NORTHFIELD — Free used puzzles will be available at Dickinson Memorial Library on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.Attendees are advised to park in the back and enter through the side door of the library....

By BELLA LEVAVI

LEYDEN — Late in life, Trueman Robbins became a community fixture at Robertson Memorial Library.Serving as a library trustee, Robbins became the unofficial greeter at the tiny Greenfield Road building. Faithfully accompanied by his “library dog”...

Beginning Oct. 7, more than 1,200 Israelis were brutally massacred by hundreds of Hamas fighters pouring over the border from Gaza towards the Israeli communities in southwest Israel. They went house to house, shooting and stabbing all in their path....

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I recently ventured into the lovely town of Leyden to serve as the host (and a fan) of a chili cook-off. The cook-off was part of Readyfest, a day-long celebration of emergency preparedness spearheaded by Leyden’s Emergency Management Committee.I...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

LEYDEN — This fall looks to be a season of change in some respects for Leyden, which has welcomed two new municipal employees.The Selectboard hired Paul McLatchy III as the new town clerk and Janell Howard as the new administrative assistant on Sept....

As we come to the end of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the local Western MA chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America want to remind our communities of our Be SMART campaign. Continuing to raise awareness about safe firearm storage...

By CHRIS LARABEE

LEYDEN — After a surprise March snowstorm slammed the town with 3 feet of snow, emergency management representatives have put together an event to bring the community together and raise awareness about emergency preparedness.Readyfest is an emergency...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — With the most land of any school district in Massachusetts, this year the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is setting off on a long-term environmental and outdoor education initiative to make use of that natural resource.In...

By BELLA LEVAVI

LEYDEN — Continuing a trend of regionalization with surrounding communities that began amid ongoing reviews of the town’s emergency response services, Leyden has signed an agreement with the Colrain Volunteer Ambulance Association for emergency...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Embarking on a visioning process of what the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s long-term future may look like, the district is inviting residents to examine how its buildings and grounds can adapt to a changing educational...

By MARY BYRNE

LEYDEN — Were it not for an aptly positioned maple tree and the quick thinking of passersby and a neighbor, the outcome of a van going over an embankment on Keets Brook Road on Tuesday “could have been fatal,” according to public safety officials....