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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The state is forgiving 17% of a $1.4 million loan it gave to Orange so the town can replace gravity sewer mains and water mains under North Main Street prior to a road reconstruction project in the same location.State Treasurer Deborah...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Fran and Mike Bates had barely opened their new store over the summer when Facebook suspended the business’ page for two days. It turns out the social media network’s algorithm thought the name was sexually explicit.But the Orange couple...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

Before looking ahead to what 2023 could bring, many Franklin County residents spent New Year’s Eve celebrating what they already have.Beginning at 6 p.m., hundreds of guests congregated inside Deerfield Academy’s dining hall for the town’s 350th...

Seventh Grade High Honors: Landon Marlin Bass, Lucas Gabriel Briand, Hunter Matthew Cormier, Reece Catherine Hains, Elena Danielle Jones, Keigan James Martinez, Taylor Hope Paluk, Heli Rajesh Patel, Matthew Peng, Evan Thomas Piscitello, Cody Alexander...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Various organizations and nonprofits around Franklin County and the North Quabbin region are opening their doors to the community on Thanksgiving, offering free meals and companionship.In Greenfield, Stone Soup Cafe will host A Day of Mourning and...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town’s payroll will look considerably different by springtime, with both the town administrator and community development director recently announcing their impending departures.Gabriele “Gabe” Voelker, who also serves as town treasurer,...

By DOMENIC POLI

You’ve possibly known a haunted house to be held in a school or an armory. But how about one inside a 15,000-square-foot Gilded Age brick mansion built for a sewing machine millionaire’s wife and eventually owned by a Masonic sisterhood called the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ORANGE — With the goal of expanding opportunities to learn about cannabis cultivation, Morning Dew Cultivars recently wrapped up its first four-week training course.The modest facility with few windows and industrial metal walls on Daniel Shays...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An Athol man recently pleaded not guilty to three sexual assault charges stemming from alleged incidents involving a young girl that occurred prior to the summer of 2013.William T. McBride, 59, of Brattle Street, was arraigned in Orange...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Four family members have started a cannabis cultivation enterprise and plan to introduce a first-of-its-kind incubator program providing free online learning and in-person technical training to aspiring cultivators in the Pioneer...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Just a few months after the January closure of longtime dog grooming business Mighty Clean Mutt, Jordan LeBlanc has filled the void with Auntie Jordan’s Grooming.The continuation of the grooming salon at 52 French King Highway was no...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ORANGE — Len Chaloux once owned two 1966 Ford Fairlane GTs, one for drag racing and one for street driving. He sold both cars to pay for a down payment on a house, but always missed the vehicles.When Chaloux retired in 2019, he went on an...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The tradition that is the Orange Drag Strip Reunion will see a checkered flag later this month.The annual gathering of drag racers and hot rod enthusiasts will enjoy its final rendition on Saturday, June 18, at 10 a.m. at the Orange Municipal...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The majority of the 29 exotic high-end vehicles up for auction at the Orange Municipal Airport this weekend once belonged to a New Salem man arrested in August 2020 and found dead in an abandoned Holyoke warehouse two months later.The...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The man who allegedly lied to police about his girlfriend being shot during an Orange home invasion has a new lawyer.Conan J. Gentile, 50, will now be represented by Jonah Goldsmith, who was covered in Franklin County Superior Court on...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — It was in March 2020 when the western world was starting to feel the squeeze of COVID-19 and one of Laurie MacLeod’s family members suggested a Zoom pizza party.“And I said, ‘What’s Zoom?” she recalled Tuesday. MacLeod, like millions of...

By DOMENIC POLI

ATHOL — State Police detectives assigned to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office are working with the Athol Police Department to investigate the unattended death of an Orange man.The body of Ralph C. Cloukey, 45, of Royalston Road in Orange,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Northwestern Anti-Crime Task Force, with assistance from the Orange Police Department, seized narcotics and cash after executing a search warrant on Chase Street on Wednesday.According to the Orange Police Department’s Facebook page,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Behavioral Health Network has partnered with the Community Health Center of Franklin County to start the state’s first rural methadone clinic, which opened this past week.The new Orange Opioid Treatment Program is located at 119 New Athol...

DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Planning Board voted unanimously this week to issue a special permit to Power Fund Partners to operate a marijuana cultivation facility at 158 Governor Dukakis Drive, starting a one-month appeals period.Power Fund Partners, based in...