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By DOUG SELWYN

Anguished cries coming out of school administration offices and school committee meetings signal the annual return of budget season. School district decision makers across the state desperately try to create budgets that serve the needs of all of their children. The money coming from the state and the drained treasuries of their local towns is nowhere near enough to cover the actual cost of educating the children.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — No injuries resulted from a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Hope and Main streets just before 1 p.m. on Friday.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Franklin County Technical School English teacher Jay Butynski describes himself as “a goofball by nature,” a quality he doesn’t hide from students who have come to find his classroom a safe and engaging place.

By ALLEN WOODS

Let’s hear it for the biographers! They can sometimes be as creative as the people they profile.

National news media refuse to call the Trump administration what it is. So, let’s be clear: This is a fascist regime. Under authoritarian leadership. President Donald Trump and his allies are pulling moves from the Nazi Party’s playbook.

By JACOB NELSON

Spring is here, and with it are signs of new life on farms around the Valley. Leaves are beginning to bud on fruit trees, farmers are preparing soil for the coming growing season, and at Little Brook Farm in Sunderland, day-old baby lambs are bounding around the lambing barn.

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Last week’s column featured Peter Ruhf, multimedia artist and philosopher. This week, we delve into Ruhf’s unusual upbringing and influences. By the time this goes to print, some will have attended the March 28 opening reception of “The Visionary, Surrealistic, and Psychedelic Art of Peter Ruhf” at Greenfield’s TEOLOS gallery. Those who missed it can take heart: the show runs through April 26.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Who was Frances Perkins? A one-woman play looking at the life of the first woman Secretary of Labor is set to take the Ashfield Congregational Church stage in April. 

By THE REV. ALISON CORNISH

With Lent underway, the Spring Equinox last week, and Passover and Easter on the near horizon, we are in the midst of a bevy of holidays and holy days. In every place on the planet where the earth reawakens to a burgeoning new season of life-giving, life-affirming gifts, there is a sense of joyful abundance even as the news continues to sadden and alarm. We desperately need holidays, holy days.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

There was something very fishy about this year’s films as part of the fifth annual Greenfield Community Television (GCTV) film sprint competition, Lights! Camera! Greenfield!

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE — Police say the driver who crashed into a ravine off Brook Road Thursday night was uninjured.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — For nearly 30 years of his life, UMass offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian has been a football coach. He’s had stints at the high school, collegiate and professional levels, his most recent gig being at Utah – where he was the program’s offensive analyst and quarterbacks coach.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — With plans to have the former Zion Korean Church, now owned by Franklin County’s YMCA, moved back to its hometown of Barre, contractors are working to meticulously dismantle the historic building piece by piece.

BERNARDSTON — With Pioneer Valley Regional School’s seventh and eighth grade classes preparing to head to New York City to see “The Outsiders” on Broadway, the Bernardston Kiwanis Club is dedicating its monthly chicken pot pie fundraiser to closing the financial gap.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Director of Assessing Pam Guyette has been appointed as interim town administrator while the Selectboard seeks a permanent replacement for Heather Butler.

By RUTH CHARNEY

This is in response to the March 22 Recorder article “Abutters speak out on proposed dog shelter.” I have been a volunteer at the Franklin County sheriff’s office dog shelter for over 12 years, almost from its inception. I was at the meeting in Deerfield on March 20 and thought I was going to have to stand up and sing the praises of the shelter.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — A quarter-century after receiving a Peacemaker Award for her efforts at Greenfield High School and in the community, Jamie Poremba still draws on those experiences in her career today.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Interim Franklin County Sheriff Lori M. Streeter has announced plans to run for sheriff and seek the Democratic nomination on the November 2026 ballot.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The soon-to-open storefront at 365 Main St. will not be the first Art Deviation Gallery & Store that Greenfield resident JJ White has owned, but it will differ from the one that operated briefly in South Deerfield in 2020.