Valley Bounty: Making people smile around food

My Turn: Mass shootings: another troubling side of manhood

Are we angry enough yet? Haven’t our hearts been broken enough times? Are we ready to act now? How many more children do we have to lose? These are just some of the questions in the aftermath of more children being gunned down at another school, this time in Bend, Oregon, on Oct 15. By a 16-year-old boy. Are we so numb that it barely registers? Do we just go back to watching the game and following the midterms? We can’t. It’s madness if we do. If we care at all about the families of those slain in Oregon, including a […]

Keeping Score with Chip Ainsworth: Franklin Tech's great athletics influencer

Good morning! Conway’s Jimmy Recore wrote that someone was missing from last week’s story about the blossoming of interscholastic athletics at Franklin County Tech. “Ray Willis deserves more credit than he ever got for scratching out varsity sports programs in those early days,” wrote Recore, who was a freshman at Tech in 1976 and part […]

Paul Rikert

<html><head></head><body>Paul Rikert<br /><br />White Plains, NY - Paul Emory Rikert, 96, of White Plains, New York, passed away peacefully on October 20, 2026, at United Hospice in Clarkstown, New York. He lived a remarkable life marked by profession ...

Eleanor J. Farnham

<html><head></head><body>Eleanor J. (Hewitt) Farnham<br /><br />Greenfield, , MA - Eleanor Jean (Hewitt) Farnham, 90, of Greenfield, MA, passed peacefully on Saturday, October 17, 2026 following a period of declining health at the Greenfield Rehabilit ...

H.S. Roundup: Greenfield football can't stay with Ware in road loss

WARE — An empty offensive performance from the Greenfield football team led to a 30-0 loss to Ware in an Intercounty North matchup at chilly Veterans’ Field on Friday night. The young Green Wave team did not have starting quarterback Gavin Arsenault. This left freshman Casey Burke in the crosshairs of a motivated Ware team [&hellip;]