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By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — Amid cuts comprising about 82,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees and form emails being sent en masse to federal employees asking for five weekly bullet points justifying their work, William Cutler is just trying to care for veterans and get to retirement.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Town Manager Shaun Suhoski went before the Finance and Warrant Advisory Committee Tuesday night to present his revenue projections for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

By GREG VINE

PHILLIPSTON – The Boston Bruins may have beaten the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday, but the Black & Gold weren’t the only winners that night.

By GREG VINE

PETERSHAM – Prior to the end of his term, former President Joe Biden awarded Larry Buell, a lifelong resident of Petersham, and his wife Katja Esser with the U.S. President’s Award for Volunteer Service.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Massachusetts is losing $12.2 million in federal money that had been earmarked for Bay State schools to buy food from local farms and Gov. Maura Healey indicated that the state has no plans to backstop the funding for more than 200 school systems, including virtually every school in Hampshire County.

The Massachusetts Lions District 33A recently awarded Nate Johnson of North Orange the 2025 Humanitarian Award. Johnson was nominated by the Athol Lions Club and presented with this prestigious award at the District 33A Mid-Winter Conference in Southbridge by Committee Chair Joni Laplante in the presence of representatives from all 46 Lions Clubs.

By DOMENIC POLI

A clause in the new state gun reform law preventing 18- to 21-year-olds from carrying certain firearms has gun enthusiasts, including those in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region, asking a rhetorical question: Is there an age requirement for the Bill of Rights?

By GREG VINE

WINCHENDON – Motorists driving between the center of Winchendon and Olde Centre will have to make a short detour for the foreseeable future.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

The Healey administration launched a new website Friday to connect fired federal workers with job opportunities and training resources in Massachusetts.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WARWICK — With a $100,000 state grant, Warwick Community School will continue to lay down the foundation for its comprehensive behavioral and mental health services program.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — “Nobody knows how to start a revolution better than us,” said U.S. Sen. Ed Markey Sunday afternoon at Pulaski Park, where more than 800 people came to collectively ignite the sparks of revolution against what they described as President Donald Trump’s “technocratic dictatorship.”

By ALEXA LEWIS and MADISON SCHOFIELD

When he started tapping trees for the 2025 sugaring season, Paul Zononi of Paul’s Sugar House in Williamsburg was shocked to find that the sap came at a trickle — and with only half of its typical sugar content.

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — With unusually high levels of uncertainty circling around the federal funding that buoys more than $16 billion of the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey’s finance secretary said that federal cuts would be too big of a problem for the executive branch to solve on its own.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town is using grant money to task the Franklin Regional Council of Governments with conducting a slum and blight inventory to determine if Orange qualifies for Community Development Block Grant funding for infrastructure upgrades and other improvements.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Natural Resources Conservation Service office for Massachusetts, located at 451 West St. since 1980, could close as part of 748 lease terminations posted online this week by the Trump administration.

By Mitch Fink

BOSTON — As they researched women’s health care for a civic action project at Frontier Regional High School in 2022, three eighth-grade students were appalled to learn that menstrual products — such as tampons and pads — can contain potentially harmful chemicals and toxins.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Town Manager Shaun Suhoski met with the Capital Program Committee Wednesday evening to seeks its support for a pair of spending proposals.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – In 2008, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the Green Communities Act to support those communities throughout the commonwealth committed to reducing energy consumption, among other goals.

By DOMENIC POLI

EAST FALMOUTH — Recently retired Franklin County Sheriff Christopher J. Donelan is one of two Cape Cod police academy leaders who have been suspended, pending an investigation into “inappropriate conduct” between staff and student officers.

By GREG VINE

WINCHENDON – A Winchendon man arrested Wednesday and charged with possession and dissemination of child pornography and two counts of improper storage of a firearm has been released on bail.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Town Manager Shaun Suhoski briefed the Selectboard at its meeting Tuesday on a proposal for work on the roof of the Bidwell Barn on South Athol Road.