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By SHERYL HUNTER

GREENFIELD — When it comes to enjoying music outdoors, the Green River Festival is tough to beat.The festival, one of the largest and most anticipated summer events that is now in its 36th year, will take place Friday through Sunday at the Franklin...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

SOUTH DEERFIELD — In an effort to combat food insecurity throughout the Pioneer Valley, Atlas Farm has more than doubled the number of stops its traveling produce shop will make in Franklin County this season.Atlas Farm’s Mobile Market, housed inside...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — Appearing in a suit and tie rather than his former priestly attire, Tomasz Gorny, 43, pled not guilty in Eastern Hampshire District Court on Friday to charges of larceny over $1,200 after allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from his...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — While it was a gloomy Saturday afternoon, no amount of cloud cover could block out the bright futures of the 135 Greenfield Community College graduates.Speaking to the graduates in front of their loved ones under a tent on the school’s...

By MARY BYRNE

The Coop Concert summer music series has returned to Energy Park this year for its first full season since 2019. The series runs through Aug. 17, with built-in rain dates of Aug. 10 and Aug. 24.“We have a wonderful roster of musicians each summer,”...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Historic Deerfield has landed a $10,000 grant from a state nonprofit to fix the Deerfield Community Center’s belfry, which has rotted or damaged wood.The grant is being awarded through a partnership of Preservation Massachusetts and The...

By Naylynn Tañón Reyes, Swaha Bhattacharya, and Tint Tha Ra Wun

NORTHAMPTON — Chuck Bayliss, now an Ada Comstock scholar at Smith College, started her own woodworking business in 2006 in Leeds via a trade program at Seattle Central Community Colleges in downtown Seattle. Due to health concerns, however, Bayliss...

By ALLEN WOODS

Memorial Day always immerses me in a pool of mixed feelings, like those inspired by the national anthem soon after the Vietnam War. Then, the song was used as a club in the culture war, which boiled down the complex issues surrounding the war into the...

By MARY BYRNE

HOLYOKE — Construction of a $72 million behavioral health hospital at the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property on Lower Westfield Road is expected to wrap up in about a month, officials announced this week. When the 150-bed Valley Springs...

By STEVE PFARRER

A little less than 25 years ago, Matthew Shepard, a young, gay University of Wyoming student, was severely beaten by two other young men outside of Laramie, Wyoming, who then left him to die by tying him to a fence alongside a pasture at night in...

By ALLEN WOODS

An online article for MacMillan dictionaries notes that many new words “enter and leave the language as the years go by, a direct reflection of the preoccupations of society in any particular era.” My reaction to the Dominion defamation suit against...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — At least three Greenfield residents and the state senator representing 25 communities in Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester counties have submitted testimony to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to express support for a bill that would...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Rather than stopping criminals, more gun laws in Massachusetts will only serve to punish “law-abiding citizens.”That was the message from a majority of those who spoke before a panel of experts as part of a comprehensive review of the...

By ALLEN WOODS

“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleepingI’m empty and aching and I don’t know whyCounting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey’ve all come to look for America“America,” Paul Simon, 1968The idea of “searching for America” began soon...

By KARL MEYER

In 2016, Canadian capital giant PSP Investments bought three FirstLight Power-branded properties on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, two years before their federal licenses would expire. They quickly transferred them into Delaware tax shelters....

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A personal care attendant accused of stabbing the 82-year-old husband of a woman she was caring for in Montague pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three charges stemming from the incident last Saturday.Kady J. Flanagan, 28, of Deerfield,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Three of a dozen people arrested in 2021 in connection with a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of a Greenfield barbershop changed their pleas Tuesday regarding their involvement in the operation and another had her case...

By ROB OKUN

“Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes … If you don’t have the people rising up, like what they did with civil rights, like what they did to end the Vietnam War … If you don’t have that,...

By Liesel Nygard

GREENFIELD — After a three-year hiatus during COVID, Extravaganja returns Saturday for its 29th event to take place at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, facilitated by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cannabis Education Coalition. Tickets for...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The state opted Monday to drop its case against a Level 3 sex offender and former fugitive to spare the named victim the trauma of taking the witness stand in a trial.Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz, 42, formerly of western Massachusetts, has been...