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By DAVID PARRELLA

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Annual Town Meeting voters will be asked to consider three bylaw amendments to change the date Annual Town Meeting is held, remove exemptions for the single-use plastics bylaw and update Buckland’s dog license regulations to be consistent with state law.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The Selectboard has approved a budget increase for fiscal year 2026 that, if approved by Annual Town Meeting voters, would bring all staff members up to a wage of at least $20 per hour.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — After nearly six years at the helm, Town Administrator Heather Butler announced Tuesday that she plans to resign in April.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Restoration work on the Wilder Homestead’s old English-style barn is nearing completion and the Buckland Historical Society is anticipating the project will be wrapped up by April 1.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The school committees of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts are preparing to finalize the numbers for the fiscal year 2026 budget after they hear feedback from the public in the next two weeks.

In August, bizjournals.com reported from recent filings that Mass General Brigham President and CEO Anne Klibanksi’s annual compensation is $6 million, a 12% increase from the year before. I just submitted a suggestion through www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/contact-us that the efforts to close the budget gap start there.

High Honors: Autumn Belanger, Katelyn Bozek, Sallie Flynn, Augustus Foote, Elliot Franetovich, Miley Frey, Maddan Garcia, Elizabeth Gilmore, Raelyn Hildreth, Grayson Johnson, Annabelle Koshinsky, Samantha Krumm-Poulin, Jared Lanoue, Everett Long, Tamsin Macmillan, Cooper Morey, Adalyn Nevins, Addison Putman, Andrew Redeker, Kaden Shearer, Zoey-Mae Shearer, Adaline Sullivan, Shae Swindell, Rheia Thomasson, Alaina Toothaker, Gunnar Triggs, Sadie Wilcox and Liam Zarotny.

By JANICE FLEURIEL

In less than 24 hours, because of Tariff Trump's recent orders, we the people may have to start paying 25% more for goods from Mexico and Canada (from vehicles and auto parts to fruits, cooking oil, and meat), and 10% more for goods from China (just read the labels on any number of everyday items sold in retail stores). I wondered if we the people could use the language Trump understands and sue him for fraud over his promises to cut costs for Americans who so badly need that. But nope. Because while he talked about cutting costs out of one side of his mouth he talked tariffs out of the other (but he never said that we the people, not the countries the goods come from, pay the costs of those tariffs).

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, is seeking community feedback as it contemplates models for possible restructuring of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts in an effort to maintain or improve the experience of students while taking into account the fiscal limitations of the districts’ small member towns.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Great River Hydro is looking to develop a battery energy storage system, a first for the hydropower company, at its Deerfield No. 3 Station located at 71 Conway St.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Eversource plans to replace 107 utility poles across the village to improve the reliability of the electrical grid, though the project has given Shelburne town officials pause amid their own LED streetlight conversion effort.

The job description for the shared rural downtown coordinator position reported in the Jan. 20 Recorder needs to start with these top three priorities, at least here in Shelburne Falls: 1) Parking and traffic management. 2) Parking and traffic management. 3) Parking and traffic management.

SHELBURNE FALLS — Local residents can enjoy a performance from the Metropolitan Opera without needing to take a trip to New York. A live performance of “Aida,” a tragic opera by composers Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Ghislanzoni, will be streamed live to the Memorial Hall Theater at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE — As the West County Food Pantry’s funding sources shift, the Selectboard is exploring the possibility of allocating funding and potentially asking voters to appropriate funds during Annual Town Meeting.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — With a $22.6 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 as a starting point, the Mohawk Trail Regional School District Budget Subcommittee will be working over the next few weeks to see what line items could potentially be trimmed.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School students may have a new math class to take next fall as the school is considering offering an Integrated Math program that would combine elements of the geometry and algebra into one course, rather than two separate classes.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — There’s a new nonprofit in town.