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By PAM HARTY

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard voted unanimously this week to offer its part-time community development director job to Tracy Murphy, the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission’s senior planner.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Franklin County activists are joining counterparts in all 50 states with standouts that are intended to send a message to President Donald Trump and his administration: take their hands off American jobs, health care and social services.

By HANNAH MORIN

ATHOL — When the annual River Rat Race returns on April 12, it will mark six decades of canoe racing, community spirit and unforgettable moments on the water.

ORANGE — The town has sent a bid out through the Franklin Regional Council of Governments for roadwork throughout town. FRCOG will bid the work along with other towns in the region to get a better project cost.

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

ORANGE — Athol resident Robert G. Osborne’s long and storied career in the art world is on display at the Stage on Main gallery, giving residents a glimpse into some of his earliest creations from the 1960s as well as artwork created within the past decade.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents say they want to see investments in housing and infrastructure to bring more families and businesses to town.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town has a new pharmacy after two months without one.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after gunshots were fired as a result of “severe recklessness,” according to the Orange Police Department.

BOSTON — Orange Town Administrator Matthew Fortier was nominated by state Sen. Jo Comerford to attend the 89th Citizens’ Legislative Seminar in Boston on March 25 and March 26.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — If awarded the money, the town is looking to allocate $326,500 in Community Development Block Grant funding toward a new Wheeler Memorial Library roof.

By SHERYL HUNTER

You know that spring is here when music series start popping up and I’m excited to announce the new Petit Concert Series launching this weekend in downtown Orange. This series of free concerts will take place on three Sunday afternoons: March 23, April 6, and April 13, at the Stage on Main, located at 17 South Main St. The music will fill the air from 2 to 4 p.m.

With all of the events and turmoil in the U.S. at the moment, the paper’s devoting space to articles on the opening of a corporate coffee shop, even detailing what was served first [“Starbucks pours its first cup,” Recorder, March 14].

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Dozens of people convened at Memorial Park over the weekend, and are planning to gather again next Saturday, to protest the federal government’s wide-ranging cuts, perhaps most notably those involving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Seven positions were poised to be eliminated in Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s fiscal year 2026 budget until the teachers union agreed to a change in the insurance deductible amount to save enough money to spare two of those jobs.

WENDELL — The Wendell Meetinghouse needs two actors who can play a man and a woman, mid-20s to 50, in a production of “Swamped,” a full-length play written and directed by Court Dorsey.

By MIKE MAGEE

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard chair has received numerous complaints from people who are unhappy the sidewalks outside their homes have not been cleared following snow and ice storms, and he used last week’s meeting to clarify that sidewalk clearing is not the municipality’s job.

By PATRICIA KATHERINE LARSON

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.