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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Franklin County Superior Court Judge Tracy Duncan sentenced a Turners Falls man to five to seven years in state prison on Tuesday for three armed robberies committed at a Turners Falls convenience store where he had formerly worked.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Town officials discussed a financial hurdle on Monday night after Tighe & Bond engineers presented estimates for demolition of the former Strathmore mill complex at 20 Canal St.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — After emergency personnel responded to a report of someone calling for help, searches of the power canal along Depot Street on Monday and Tuesday did not locate anyone, according to Turners Falls Fire Chief Todd Brunelle.

MONTAGUE CENTER — Residents with a sweet tooth can visit the First Congregational Church of Montague at 4 North St. for the third annual Cookie Walk on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — When The Performance Project’s First Generation ensemble gathered to put together its materials for “Mother Tongue,” one question was used to guide the performers.

High Honors: Brayden Bailey, Benjamin Baker, Cole Bassett, Mason Bassett, Owen Bliss, Joseph Bobala, Autora Brown, David Chagnon, Kairi Chubb, Izzabella Clarke, Nicholas Constantine, Allan Cordero Lopez, Makalya Craig, Oliver Cranston, Joseph DiSciullo, John Duncan, Everett Eichorn, Aubrie Fitzgerald, Laura Fuess, Brady Gancarz, Zoe Gledhill, Jonathan Holmes, Jeremiah Jones, Olivia Kaleta, Maxwell Kenfield, Kylie Krupinski, Cecelia Laflamme, Carter Leete, Joshua Leonovich, Tyler Lively, Jedidiah Niquette, Madisyn Pelletier, Madison Pettengill, Adam Phillips, Makayla Pierce, Mylena Prunier, Travis Rathburn, Everia Rivera, Sienna Robidoux, Luke Sheridan, Landon Smead, La’Naija Smith, Kendra Steiner, Aiden Taylor, Ava Taylor, Brooke Taylor, Jeanna Taylor, Jacob Thomas, Isabel Thompson, Rhys Urkiel, Keith Warger, Landon Warger, Nathan Warger, Holden Wolfe, Cody Yetter, Zia Zaykoski and Mercury Ziff.

By SHERYL HUNTER

For three and a half years, multi-instrumentalist Michael Pattavina of Greenfield has hosted the Bluegrass and Beyond session at the Rendezvous in Turners Falls. These sessions occur on the last Friday of the month except during December and the warm weather months of May through August. This month’s session will be held on Friday, Jan. 31 at 9 p.m. and will be an evening of honky-tonk music with special guest Betsy-Dawn Williams.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has issued a draft decision approving a water quality certification for FirstLight Hydro Generating Co., marking the latest required step in FirstLight’s relicensing process through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 25) at the Rendezvous, the band The Frost Heaves and Hales will play a show that band member Daniel Hales thought he’d never do again.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

The inter-generational love for the Australian children’s cartoon “Bluey” was on full display during the Montague Public Libraries sponsored Bluey Party last weekend as parents and their children enjoyed the activities together, while expressing their love for the popular Blue Heeler. 

TURNERS FALLS — Weathervane Community Arts will present a double-bill of local and touring singer-songwriters at Unnameable Books at 66 Avenue A on Friday, Jan. 24, from 7 to 9 p.m.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Three Franklin County communities — Turners Falls, Shelburne Falls and Northfield — are set to be part of a pilot program adding a shared rural downtown coordinator position to lead revitalization efforts.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

James Bridgman of Northampton will speak about his recent book, “Forgotten Immigrants: The Bohemians of Turners Falls, Massachusetts,” on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p.m. at the Great Falls Discovery Center on Avenue A in Turners Falls.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Following the teachers union’s Dec. 13 vote of no confidence leveled against Superintendent Brian Beck and Director of Facilities and Energy Heath Cummings, the Gill-Montague Regional School District is relaunching a Joint Labor Management Committee to act as a problem-solving board.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The effort to renovate or expand the existing Carnegie Library, or build a new main branch library altogether, has taken another key step forward.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — The town is starting off the new year by approving a $194,850 contract with National Water Main Cleaning Co. for a rehabilitation project focusing on 53 manholes in the Turners Falls and Millers Falls villages.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Inside the Great Hall at the Massachusetts State House in Boston hangs hundreds of town flags representing nearly all the 351 municipalities in the state, and Montague will soon be included.

MADISON, Wisc. — Montague resident Julia Walkowicz was named to the dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fall semester. Walkowicz is a student in the College of Letters and Science.