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By CHRIS LARABEE

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has approved a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to study what portions of the Deerfield River and its tributaries could be incorporated into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.The Senate’s Dec. 18...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A giant wooden cake with hundreds of electric candles, serving as a centerpiece of anniversary celebrations in several area communities, is on its way to another part of Massachusetts.The ceremonial 16-foot tall, 26-foot wide and 1-ton...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — While it’s named the Greenfield Recorder’s Citizen of the Year award, it sometimes ends up serving as a lifetime achievement recognition and, perhaps, Friday’s recipient embodies that distinction of a life well-served more than anyone...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Thanks to the efforts of Adopt-A-Family of Franklin County and the individuals and groups that support it, 200 local families are receiving Christmas gifts, food and gift cards to provide a memorable holiday for their...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The long-awaited senior housing project that will serve as one of the key slices of Deerfield’s municipal campus will take a major step forward in January, as the Selectboard has approved the release of a request for proposals...

By CHRIS LARABEE

From 1952 to 2008, children in Deerfield had an opportunity to write letters to Santa Claus and, after some time, a letter from the big man himself would be sent back to the child.Now, decades later after many of the letters were likely forgotten, a...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — In what is becoming an annual tradition for community service, the South County Senior Center and the Sunderland Men’s Club are once again coming together to offer Christmas Day meals to older adults in Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately...

The spirit of Christmas came early this year. It arrived in a car and a tall man with white hair and a white beard knocking at my door. Hello, he said, my name is Peter Thomas. Years ago your children wrote letters to Santa and I am here to give you...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

“You don’t have to have a big, fancy family tree, just some really nice stories,” Becky Baxter Clark of Deerfield recently told me. “Those are the ones that the kids remember.”Becky herself has a lot of family stories. She recently shared some of them...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After a national search, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) has found a new executive director right here in the Pioneer Valley.The agency announced on Dec. 12 that its board of directors had chosen Jennifer Core, a...

By JACOB NELSON

The Christmas season, for people who celebrate, tends to be full of traditions. Maybe it’s watching the same corny holiday movies every year. Maybe it’s making Grandma’s special cookies, a yellowing index card with her faded cursive handwriting...

Whately Congregational Church hosting annual living nativity scene WHATELY — The Whately Congregational Church’s annual living nativity scene returns this weekend with live animals included.The annual Christmas event began in the mid-1990s and brings...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — On a recommendation from the Board of Assessors, the Selectboard adopted a single tax rate for fiscal year 2025 of $13.25 per $1,000 valuation on Wednesday evening, an approximately 4.3% decrease from FY24.Sticking with past practices, the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The site plan review for the 1888 Building rehabilitation and addition project has been pushed to Monday, Jan. 6, as the town works to flesh out the parking and driveway designs.While the hearing was originally scheduled for Monday...

Next time Veterans Day comes around think of the 2,000 or so of us Marines who’ve been waiting three or more years for compensation from cancer from the drinking water at Camp Lejeune North Carolina.What a rotten way to treat us after we put our lives...

Seventh Grade Maximum Honors: Zorica Ambs, Hunter Arial-Clough, Thomas Bagdon, Maisie Bliss, Jacob Burniske, Abigail Cendrowski, Saskia Coggeshall-Burr, Sadie Conlon, Theo D’Urs, Maxwell Dean, Elliana DiNardo, Madelyn DiVincenzo, Dalton Dove, Salome...

Gov. Maura Healey and the Legislature need to hear from us to advocate to restore funding for the the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP).HIP is a state-funded program that provides SNAP recipients (also known as food stamps) extra funds monthly for...

By JACOB NELSON

In South Deerfield, the North Main Street bridge over the railroad tracks has been closed for repairs since May. “I was joking that we’re probably the only ones on this street happy about the detour,” laughs Kelly Kicza.That’s because cars have been...