Greenfield News

People were forced underground as a tornado warning was issued for areas along and to the south of the Route 2 corridor Wednesday evening.

Mental health providers who gathered for four-plus hours in Energy Park said events like Wednesday's Mental Health and Wellness Fair are necessary to reverse negative connotations and stigmas some have about mental illness.

Submitted photo GCC student exhibit There will be a reception for an exhibit of student work at Greenfield Community College Thursday, April 18.

Submitted photo Want to have fun Saturday night? Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will be at the Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse Saturday night for a fundraiser for the Montague Reporter.

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom.

As spring finally comes to Franklin County, it's great to meet up again with folks we have not seen through the winter, and to enjoy the annual greening happening around us which speaks of new life.

If town councilors vote the mayor's $43.8 million 2014 budget tonight, it appears the town will dodge layoffs and service cuts next year.

A family owned and operated musical instrument sales and service center, conveniently located in beautiful downtown Greenfield, MA.

Several weeks ago, I found myself shopping for a few odds and ends at the Big Y Supermarket in Greenfield.

The R-46 walls are clad with Western red cedar siding installed over a rainscreen gap.

The new triangular, 40-foot-tall greenhouse at the southern end of Greenfield Community College reaches skyward, and has a new, multi-pronged permaculture garden being planted at its base.

On a recent Monday in the online learning classroom at Nauset Regional High School, Parker Lang, 14, of Brewster designed a video game while 16-year-old sophomore Abby Bausch prepared for an MCAS science test.

The Greenfield School Committee will interview Tuesday seven finalists vying for spots on the town's new cyber school's governing board - but the pool has changed slightly with two late additions and two withdrawals.

Confusion over the Greenfield School Building Committee's plans to move the high school's kitchen during construction came to a head Tuesday - after the project's architect sent a bill for work the committee wasn't aware was being done.

Programs that allow poor elders to receive care in their own households, instead of turning to nursing homes, will see increases in funding next year - a much needed step in the right direction, said officials that help administer elder services.

Former Greenfield, MA, residents Harold and Norma Lapointe will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Vice President Joe Biden, left, and host Jon Stewart appear on set during Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in 2009.

Suboxone and methadone - the two principal drug treatments for opiate dependence and addiction - are available through private clinics in Greenfield, and Suboxone through the rare general medical practice.

"The bottom line with all of this is this is a disease," said Dr. Ruth Potee, a Greenfield doctor who treats opioid addicts.

At that time, few people in Greenfield would have imagined that seven neighbors to this huge project could void this decision in court for two years.