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GREENFIELD — Fire service leaders from across the region viewed footage of battery storage facilities, electric scooters and electric vehicles combusting into flames on Tuesday, broadening their knowledge of the unique challenges associated with extinguishing battery fires.

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ROWE — Forty-nine Rowe voters approved 35 articles during Annual Town Meeting Monday evening, including an article authorizing the town to purchase a 179-acre property on Tunnel Road for use as recreational land and another to enter into a regional fire district with Charlemont.

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GREENFIELD — When Ferdinanda Uchman walked into the Greenfield Senior Center on Friday afternoon to play a game of Mahjong, she was greeted by a small group of friends, family members and Mayor Ginny Desorgher, who gathered to celebrate her 100th birthday.

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GREENFIELD — As the Greenfield Redevelopment Authority drafts a request for proposals for the former First National Bank building on Bank Row, potential uses range from a boutique hotel to a concert venue.

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GREENFIELD — Housing took center stage during a more than three-hour meeting Thursday, as City Council voted against the zoning amendments in a citizen’s petition to regulate accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and approved an amendment to increase the maximum building height in the Central Commercial District.

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GREENFIELD — The city’s shift from using a dual-stream recycling method to single-stream recycling will take effect in July, according to Department of Public Works Director Marlo Warner II.

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GREENFIELD — After rainstorms brought flooding to the region last weekend that impacted the city’s homeless population, members of the newly formed Unhoused Community Committee discussed forming designated camping areas for the homeless.

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NORTHFIELD — Assistant Town Clerk Dan Campbell will soon take his seat on the Selectboard after winning the sole contested position in this year’s town election by 60 votes, besting his opponent Barbara Brassor.

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GREENFIELD — As a proposed zoning amendment seeking to raise the height restriction on construction nears a City Council vote this week, members of the Historical Commission expressed concerns over how such a change might impact aesthetics and shared a desire to preserve historic character.

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GREENFIELD — Only a week before they will be put to a special City Council vote on Thursday, the Planning Board voted unanimously to not recommend four proposed zoning amendments that would regulate accessory dwelling units, or ADUs.

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GILL — There were no reported injuries after a recycling truck hit an F.M. Kuzmeskus school bus carrying children on Main Road Friday afternoon.

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WARWICK — Residents will decide whether the town should take ownership of the First Parish Unitarian Church and Meetinghouse, as well as consider its commitment to pursuing green energy and the town’s fiscal year 2026 budget, during Annual Town Meeting.

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GREENFIELD — After hearing the details of Mayor Ginny Desorgher’s nearly $67.93 million fiscal year 2026 budget proposal Wednesday evening, Ways and Means Committee members agreed to positively recommend it to City Council, as long as no potential reductions can be found before this month’s meeting.

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GREENFIELD — After a year of planning, Mayor Ginny Desorgher will join community members and the environmental nonprofit Greening Greenfield on Saturday to start planting trees along the perimeter of the former Wedgewood Gardens mobile home park on Colrain Street.

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GREENFIELD — Radial Dynamics, a Greenfield hydraulic engineering company, will steer its way into the future with its new high-tech manufacturing equipment, including a robotic arm that was purchased with the help of a $200,000 grant.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision to end its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program has town officials in Whately and Colrain going back to the drawing board to figure out how to fund hazard mitigation work in their communities.

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LEVERETT — A couple was displaced from their Teawaddle Hill Road home Tuesday night after a fire caused a partial collapse of the single-story house.

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GREENFIELD — DIAL/SELF Youth and Community Services, a Greenfield-based nonprofit that serves youths across Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties and the North Quabbin region, announced Tuesday that the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is expected to cut nearly 40% of its roughly $2 million budget.

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GREENFIELD — Though the deadline to pull nomination papers for November’s biennial city election is months away, five candidates have already thrown their hats into the ring for City Council.

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WARWICK — The driver of a Jeep was transported by helicopter for treatment of serious injuries Friday evening following a crash on Winchester Road near its intersection with Flower Hill Road.

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GREENFIELD — Organizers hope the downtown cleanup held Friday afternoon marks the first of many.