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PVTA to waive fares, launch new Amherst-to-Greenfield route
10-08-2024 4:14 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority will go fare-free beginning Nov. 1, part of a statewide “Try Transit” initiative that provides funding to allow transit authorities to waive fees for riders.PVTA said that no fares or passes will be...


Guest columnist Al Norman: The dirty details about clean energy siting in Massachusetts
10-04-2024 1:49 PM

By AL NORMAN

Solar facilities and battery storage have been protected in Massachusetts from local zoning bylaws since 1985. “In codifying solar energy as a protected use,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has written, “the Legislature determined...


Local intergenerational pickleball team to compete in Washington DC
09-26-2024 6:45 PM

By AMALIA WOMPA

America’s fastest-growing sport has continued to find avid players in Franklin County, and now, two longtime residents are traveling to Washington D.C. to compete for the ultimate title.The intergenerational team, Todd “Happy” Boynton, 51, of...


Making ‘a positive impact for our rivers’: Source to Sea Cleanup returns this weekend
09-25-2024 3:51 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

The Source to Sea Cleanup has provided a valuable service to the Connecticut River Valley since its 1997 inception. And it can provide receipts.Nearly 40,000 volunteers have removed 1,100 tons of trash, almost 14,000 tires and 144,000 beverage...


Guest columnist John Bos: Connecting the dates
09-24-2024 4:18 PM

By JOHN BOS

 In my life there are four dates that remain unforgettable. And connected for personal and global reasons.Feb. 12: I was born in Dr. Jenny’s home hospital in an old Victorian house in Tonawanda, New York on this day in 1936. Our father was there for...


Football: South Hadley starts early to beat Greenfield, 27-14
09-20-2024 11:11 PM

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — It seemed as if the only team that was going to beat South Hadley on Friday night was itself.The Tigers coughed up five, that’s right, five, turnovers — four fumbles and an interception — to a pesky Greenfield defense, each one...


Guest columnist Allen Woods: Unbiased news? No, it’s not a thing.
09-17-2024 4:44 PM

By ALLEN WOODS

In my first try at college, beginning in 1968, I didn’t major in journalism, or English, but experimented with writing, and read voraciously. A literate friend tutored me in the types and styles of writing, including the period’s passionate debate on...


You oughta see these pictures: Greenfield Garden Cinemas launches Talking Talkies series of essential 1930s films
09-13-2024 2:12 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

As the Greenfield Garden Cinemas was completed in the late 1920s, Hollywood was introducing a novel idea into more and more movies: sound. In 2024, cinema co-owner Isaac Mass and local movie historian Jonathan Boschen are offering an opportunity to...


Arts Briefs: A little musical something for everyone in September, from country to Irish to indie punk
09-06-2024 11:25 AM

How time flies“I got sober in 1990 at age twenty-seven. A few years later, I started writing songs.” That’s how singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier begins the liner notes of her soon-to-be reissued, highly acclaimed album, “Drag Queens in Limousines,”...


Field hockey: Frontier powers past Greenfield for 5-0 season-opening victory (PHOTOS)
09-04-2024 9:10 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier and Greenfield field hockey teams played four times last fall. Both teams won two games, though the Redhawks took the big one in the Western Mass. championship tilt. There wasn’t much separation in any of those four...


Guest columnist Karl Meyer: Occam’s razor and the mystery of the stranded sturgeon
09-02-2024 7:47 PM

By KARL MEYER

 On July 31, I watched from the Turners Falls bridge as a teen stood over an isolated pool in an emptied riverbed, 30 feet from FirstLight’s stoppered dam. He clutched a bent rod with something on his line. I had an idea what it might be. The Recorder...


Guest columnist Allen Woods: The many faces of America
09-02-2024 6:01 AM

By ALLEN WOODS

I’m generally not a fan of speeches at political conventions. The long list of speakers preaches to the choir when they need to reach a broader congregation. They feel free to make extravagant promises without specifics or programs to support them....


Prepare to be horrified: Greenfield Garden Cinemas to screen 25 films over five weeks for Stephen King Film Festival
08-23-2024 12:47 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

In an effort to bring movie buffs from throughout the region into the city, the Garden Cinemas, and, subsequently, Greenfield City Council, have declared the month of September “Stephen King Month.”From Aug. 30 to Oct. 4, Garden Cinemas will show 25...


Guest columnist Allen Woods: Mourning and celebrating two great influencers
08-19-2024 8:25 AM

By ALLEN WOODS

One inevitable, and unenviable, task of getting older is accepting that people who made an impact on your life die. Today, they might be termed “influencers,” although for me, influence stemmed from actions and accomplishments beyond looking...


Amherst native Vanessa Chakour brings women’s boxing classes to Franklin County's YMCA
08-18-2024 1:48 PM

By LUCY POSTERA

GREENFIELD — Vanessa Chakour didn’t always want to be a boxer. If you asked the Amherst native what she wanted to be when she grew up she may have said a National Geographic photographer, an author or an illustrator, but never once did being a...


Release conditions set for former Shutesbury man facing 29 charges, including rape and strangulation
08-15-2024 2:38 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man facing 29 charges, including rape and strangulation, will be released from custody if he can identify an appropriate residence to stay at, a Franklin County Superior Court judge has decided.Branden M. Eugenio, 31, appeared...


The World Keeps Turning: Who loves the Electoral College?
08-04-2024 9:44 AM

By ALLEN WOODS

It’s a new presidential race now, with opponents who couldn’t be more opposite. As a loudmouthed promoter of democracy and constitutional defender, you’d think I’d be thrilled at casting my vote in what people consider “the most important election in...


Fiscal 2025 state budget includes ban on home equity theft
07-30-2024 11:23 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an attachment to the fiscal year 2025 budget banning municipalities from taking the entire equity in a home in the event of a tax lien foreclosure, a practice detractors call “home equity theft.”The budget attachment,...


Two men held in alleged assault, hate crime at Sunderland liquor store
07-25-2024 7:17 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Two men accused of beating and seriously injuring a liquor store clerk and one other person in Sunderland were ordered held without bail at a dangerousness hearing Thursday in Greenfield District Court.Warren Martinez, 30, of Northampton,...


Karl Meyer: A river robbed of its breath and time
07-25-2024 11:59 AM

A great river runs backward here. Backward and uphill. In this valley so many call home miles of the Connecticut are stilled, vacuumed into bizarre reversals, defying nature itself. Most view it merely in passing, a watery reflection saying “river.”...

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