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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and ALEXA LEWIS

GREENFIELD — Voters will decide on Election Day whether to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers in Massachusetts, a controversial ballot initiative known as Question 5 that could change the landscape for the restaurant and bar industry and other...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — First responders and members of the community are coming together Thursday afternoon to raise money for a longtime resident, first responder and town official of Franklin County.“Baked Potatoes & Baskets for Bob” will benefit Bob Manners...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

A myth has surfaced over the past year about the war in Ukraine, embraced and expressed by certain members of local and national peace groups. According to them, Vladimir Putin is really a nice guy who was reluctantly coerced into invading his...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

I collect old LIFE magazines and was recently surprised to see a two-page advertisement in a February 1962 issue by Esso (Later Exxon) boasting that each day, they “Supply enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” Those were the exact words...

By AVIVA LUTTRELL

GREENFIELD — Forty years ago this week, the Blizzard of 1978 slammed New England, dumping as much as 30 inches of snow on Franklin County.Even as today’s messy storm took aim at New England, Ralph Gordon, 82, remembered the historic 1978 storm well....