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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...

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MONTAGUE — Local and state officials gathered alongside health care workers on Monday afternoon to celebrate the return of a community health center to town.The first community health center in western Massachusetts was founded in 1997 in Turners...

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GREENFIELD — In the days following the presidential election, local LGBTQ organizations began hosting support sessions to help foster community amid rising fears that a second Trump administration will rollback the progress made on rights and legal...

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TURNERS FALLS — School Committee members got an inside look at the new veterinary sciences building at Franklin County Technical School last week.Principal Brian Spadafino guided the cohort of members through the 4,800-square-foot building on the...

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ORANGE – Residents gathered behind Orange Town Hall Monday afternoon to dedicate the placement of a bronze plaque on the stone monument to the former Memorial Hall at Prospect and High streets, which was demolished in 1996.The work of three Orange...

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ERVING – Rural Development Inc. (RDI) has been awarded $227,553 in predevelopment funding to forward the senior and affordable housing project planned for Care Drive. According to a press release from the Community Economic Development Assistance...

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Towns in Franklin County have signaled their support for the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) to apply for the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) grant for assistance in...

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TURNERS FALLS — Toting buckets and nets, roughly 30 volunteers made the trek down into the muddy pit that is the drained power canal to rescue sea lampreys on Monday. This yearly rescue, conducted when the power canal is drained for yearly...

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ERVING — The Conservation Commission heard an initial development proposal Tuesday night for a 9-acre, 100-megawatt battery energy storage system on Rose Lane.While plans are in the very early stages, Granite Source Power’s Director of Development...

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ORANGE — An all-terrain vehicle caught fire behind a home at 130 Bartlett Lane on Tuesday, though the fire did not spread to the home itself and no injuries were reported.The fire was called in at around 12:30 p.m. by an occupant of the home....

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ERVING – The Erving School Union 28 district is starting the school year with Shannon White-Cleveland as the new superintendent for K-6 students across New Salem, Wendell, Erving, Leverett and Shutesbury.White-Cleveland has around 30 years of...

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ORANGE — Carolyn Gilmore was informed by her midwives that the labor process for a second child typically goes faster than the first. However, Gilmore wasn’t expecting to deliver her second child within a half hour of her water breaking, nor in the...

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GILL – Earlier this summer, Stacey Hamel heard a rumor that since the barriers were placed on the French King Bridge in August 2023, neither Gill nor Erving first responders have been called to the bridge for rescue of people in crisis, or recovery of...

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More towns across Franklin County have started the process of installing outdoor naloxone cabinets to increase accessibility to the life-saving drug.The Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) through its Collaborative Public Health District...

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ERVING – Residents voiced concerns and provided feedback to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and Green International Affiliates Inc., who presented Erving Center Route 2 redesign proposals Wednesday night in Erving.The...

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ERVING – A bid proposal by Tighe and Bond for the former International Paper Mill’s partial demolition was accepted unanimously during a joint Selectboard, Capital Planning Committee and Finance Committee meeting on Monday night.The base bid proposal...

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LAKE PLEASANT – The National Spiritual Alliance (TNSA) Vice President and Acting CEO David James sent an announcement to its members that the Thompson Temple will not hold services during the winter beginning Nov. 1, citing declining membership and...

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Towns across Franklin County have signed letters in support of a paint recycling bill that advocates say could save municipalities money and help protect the environment.Bernardston, Northfield, Montague, Deerfield, Sunderland and Hawley have signed...

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Following an overall decline in teacher retention in 2023, Franklin County and North Quabbin school districts saw a mix of increased and decreased retention rates in the 2023-2024 school year, according to data from the state Department of Elementary...

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ERVING — The Selectboard this week got a glimpse at four potential design plans for partial demolition and restoration of the International Paper Mill property.The $1.49 million property at 8 Papermill Road, which was seized by the town for back taxes...

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ORANGE – The Selectboard meeting on Wednesday night saw a lengthy agenda, including an approved motion to create a new subcommittee for addressing dock issues at Lake Mattawa, a plan to dissolve the Armory Commission and a motion to assign Town...