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By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Take a trip to Italy this weekend by visiting Frontier Regional School, as the Theater Department adapts the classical romantic musical, “The Light in the Piazza.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional School District School Committee unanimously approved its fiscal year 2026 $13.29 million general budget Thursday evening following a sparsely attended public hearing earlier in the week.

By CHRIS LARABEE

If you take a look at the spreadsheets on Mason Smith and Tyler Wolkowicz’s computer screens, you might think they’re undertaking an extensive math project.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As the Gill-Montague Regional District School Committee prepares to finalize its budget for the next fiscal year, it faces an approximately $400,000 roadblock in the form of a current $200,000 budget deficit and a $200,000 revenue shortfall for next year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A dozen residents from the Plain Road East and Mill Village Road neighborhood came before the Planning Board Monday night to express concerns about the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed building.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The Mohawk Trail Regional School Committee has approved a $27.2 million budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE — The Mohawk Trail Regional School District has been ordered to turn over records relating to an investigation into alleged misconduct by a staff member to the state attorney general’s office.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SPRINGFIELD — The Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts committed this month to a three-year, $200,000-a-year partnership with the Secure Community Network (SCN) to strengthen and enhance security measures at congregations, schools and organizations throughout the region.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Residents have begun reviewing the various models for possible restructuring of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts, and are making it clear they want to see all potential impacts and benefits explored.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Friends of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter will come before Deerfield’s regulatory boards in the coming weeks, as the nonprofit seeks to construct an 8,000-square-foot shelter on a 13.4-acre parcel of land off Plain Road East.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

A small, $8 donation to the Friends of the Franklin County Regional Dog Shelter from 10-year-old Charlotte Cooley of Greenfield turned into nearly $500 after three weeks of donation matching spurred on by a Facebook post in early January. 

High Honors: Adalynn Marie Almeida, Carter Nicholas Archambault, Lailah Kristine Mahrie Belliveau, Bella Nicole Burnett, Bradley Joshua Coleman, Avarie Rose Comeau, David Lawrence Eadie, Robert John Farrow, Yara Adil Fawzi, John (Jack) Paul Eugene Fitzgerald, Athalia Makaylee Laza, Aidan Japhet Lopez Cruz, Lysander Lopez-Baez, Alec Sawyer Mazarelli, Jozette Anne Robinson, Bentley Sanchez, Shane Kyle Thibault, Sofia Evgenievna Timchenko and Judah Brady Widtfeldt.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Just five and a half months after implementing a cellphone ban for students, the effects are clear to Pioneer Valley Regional School District administrators: students are paying more attention in class and socializing among themselves instead of through a screen.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School could save $125,208 in the fiscal year 2026 budget by cutting two full-time positions.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — While other districts are currently setting their competency determinations in the wake of Question 2, the Pioneer Valley Regional School District will instead take its time.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee last week approved the administration’s $17.46 million budget for fiscal year 2026, thus sending the proposal along for Annual Town Meeting approval.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Construction of a new track and field at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School, at a cost of $4.11 million, is expected to begin in late June.

Highest Honor: Aaron Archer, Ahnna Berthiaume, Amber Drossart, Emma Goulding, Samuel Lawler, Evangeline Lewis, Deveney Pillsbury, Gianna Shattuck, Hannah Skorupa, Amy VanDoren, Gabrielle Warriner Cardin and Brooke Welcome.

Maximum Honors: Zorica Ambs, Hunter Arial-Clough, Thomas Bagdon, Maisie Bliss, Jacob Burniske, Chase Campbell, Abigail Cendrowski, Saskia Coggeshall-Burr, Sadie Conlon, Hayden Costa, Theo D’Urso, Maxwell Dean, Reid Desorgher, Elliana DiNardo, Madelyn DiVincenzo, Salome Ehle, Tilly Fahey, Mckinley Fay, Gemma Gochinski, Lexi Hawkins, Sophia James, Amelia Johnson, Danica Kopcza, Mason Krawczyk, Naomi Malloy, Aliya Mazumdar, Theodore McCarthy, Leah Meattey, Daniel Mule, Claire Myre, Ayden Novak, Madison O’Neil, Abigail Pollock, Amelia Potter, Sonnet Severance, Ainsley Southergill, Jerison Stokes, John Sullivan, Olivia Talbott, Rileyanne Tine, Kayla Tudryn, Susannah Van Driesche, Ella Whittier and Brenna Zilch.