Greenfield Recorder
Pushback: This holiday season, donate a home
This holiday giving season is an opportunity to help neighbors who could lose their home. On April 17, 2024, I wrote a Pushback column proposing a new concept for Greenfield called the “Elderly and…
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4mMahar to host meals program for senior citizens, planning preschool service
The Ralph C. Mahar Regional School district is launching a Senior Dining Club for local residents ages 60 and older while also planning a new preschool partnership with the Athol Area YMCA and enforcing a new student cellphone ban.
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5mFaith Matters: Third places: Why the church needs to be more than a Sunday stop
For much of American history, community happened in places that were neither home nor work. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg called these gathering spots “third places.” They included diners, barbershops, coffeehouses, libraries, local parks and community halls. These were informal spaces where people could linger, talk with neighbors, see familiar faces and build relationships without needing a […]
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8mKeeping Score with Chip Ainsworth: Amid outcry, common sense creeps in
Good morning! The Frontier School Committee probably has enough college degrees to wallpaper the superintendent’s office, but smarts can’t beat common sense. In June the committee voted 7-2 against relocating a plaque that memorializes Greg Belanger to a more visible location under a new scoreboard. Belanger graduated from Frontier in 1998 and was killed by a […]
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4mJoyce Marie Thibodo
<html><head></head><body>Joyce Marie (LeBeau) Thibodo<br /><br />Greenfield, MA - Joyce Marie (LeBeau) Thibodo, 89, of Greenfield, Massachusetts died Friday August 7, 2026, at Bay State Medical Center, two weeks shy of her 90th birthday.<br /><br />Bo ...
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3mDennis M. McGahan
<html><head></head><body>Dennis M. McGahan<br /><br />Gastonia, NC - Dennis "Denny" M. McGahan, 79, formerly of Greenfield, MA, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on September 1 , 2026 at Caromont Regional Hospital in Gastonia, NC ...