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By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With the Planning Board’s special permit approval this week, Savage Farms will construct a nearly 90,000-square-foot potato storage building for year-round protection of the family farm’s crops.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — Wicked Good Café is bringing new life to the historic Elmer’s Store, with help from both new and familiar faces.

GREENFIELD — The Garden Cinemas opened its doors on March 11, 1929. Given that the theater’s 96th anniversary falls on the theater’s weekly $5 Tuesday, the Garden Cinemas will celebrate the milestone by giving free popcorn to the first 96 people who buy $5 tickets that day.

Thomas V. Nartowicz Jr. and Sandra Weaver sold to Mark J. Kulas, 4 Pine St. $265,000.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

More than six years in, the legal cannabis industry landscape in Massachusetts has had a chance to evolve, and a new industry report examines some of the trendlines.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday continued the public hearing for a proposed 9,100-square-foot retail building expected to house a Dollar General at the corner of Route 116 and Clark Mountain Road with concerns over traffic and safety on the busy state highway.

By DOMENIC POLI

Experts predict the steel and aluminum tariffs set to go into effect March 12 will have a negative trickle-down effect, and local businesses are bracing for the impact the Trump administration’s move could have on their bottom line.

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Cooperative Bank is continuing its partnership with Community Action Pioneer Valley to support the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

Brian L. Winchester and Bruce A. Winchester sold to Gary Archibald and Gail Archibald, 211 Bryant St. $177,500.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

SHELBURNE — The Planning Board announced Tuesday that a controversial bylaw regulating food trucks will be withdrawn from Annual Town Meeting consideration this spring as town counsel advised it needs to be “thought through more carefully.”

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

BERNARDSTON — After ironing out a few conditions, the Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously Thursday to grant the owners of Incandescent Brewing the special permit they need to open.

Stuart Harris and Raymond Gray sold to Brianna Dupree and Bruce Dupree, 229 Creamery Road. $250,000.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With World Eye Bookshop’s closure at the turn of the year after more than half a century in the city, it joins a list of longtime Main Street staples that have shuttered in recent years.

By GUSTAVO ATENCIO FLORES

BERNARDSTON — From her home on Shaw Road surrounded by rolling fields and horse stables, Melissa Murphy crafts custom embroidered apparel for local businesses.

GREENFIELD — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center invites the community to a Health Occupations Job Fair at Greenfield Community College’s Cohn Family Dining Commons on Monday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Business owners say 2024 was a challenging year, with the Bridge of Flowers closed and other village infrastructure projects, though foot traffic data from the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce shows the total number of visits throughout the year actually rose.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Planning Board discussed potentially drafting guidelines regulating street-facing, ground-floor cannabis dispensaries on Thursday, with some members asserting that the state’s mandate that cannabis businesses have opaque or obscured windows makes their presence a form of “blight” on downtown Greenfield.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With love in the air on Valentine’s Day, it was only fitting for speakers at the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s breakfast to share their adoration for their jobs.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Syd St. John, a Highland Avenue resident with a knack for agriculture, plans to grow and sell roughly an acre of flowers on their land this spring and summer — a plan that St. John said will not require a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals as long as they can earn more than $1,000 per acre of farmed land.

Thomas M. Byrnes Estate and Lawrence Byrnes sold to Double Edge Theatre Productions, 225 Main St. $200,000.