by Doc Pruyne | Apr 11, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
SUNDERLAND – The warrant for the Annual Town Meeting this year features an unusual article that seeks to allow resident teenagers, 16 and 17 years old, to vote in town elections and meetings. Article 12, a citizens petition, seeks authorization for the Selectboard to...
by Doc Pruyne | Mar 26, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
The Sun on the Muddy Library Tour visits Sunderland Library on March 30 at 2 p.m.Reminder Publishing submitted photo SUNDERLAND — Puddle pictures, toothbrush poems and library songs, the Sun on the Muddy Library Tour, a unique multi-media event, arrives at the...
by Doc Pruyne | Mar 19, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
SHUTESBURY — Earlier this month, the M.N. Spear Memorial Library received a $10,000 grant from the American Library Association. The grant will help library staff to figure out how to better serve neurodiverse residents in the new library building, soon to enter the...
by Doc Pruyne | Mar 13, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
SOUTH DEERFIELD — In her March 5 presentation, Shelley Poreda, director of business administration for the Frontier Regional School District, or FRSD, summarized the intentions behind the fiscal year 2025 budget. “Our goal in budget development is to develop a needs...
by Doc Pruyne | Mar 13, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
SHUTESBURY — For Jody Jones, this is a special moment for internet connectivity in the Bay State. According to the senior planner at the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, or MBI, a tidal wave of money totaling $400 million is flowing out to towns and cities from both...
by Doc Pruyne | Mar 13, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
SUNDERLAND — Kitchen Garden Farm grows new farmers along with the vegetables. Lilly Israel and Max Traunstein, employees at the farm since 2016 and 2014, are assuming ownership of the 65-acre vegetable farm on South Silver Lane. Caroline Pam and Tim Wilcox, who...
