West County Notebook: Oct. 24, 2026

Investing in 'valley security': Franklin County CDC launches investor drive to support farms, small businesses

The Franklin County Community Development Corporation launched its "Put Your Money Where Your Fork Is" investor drive in an effort to expand the Pioneer Valley Grows Investment Fund to $5 million to support local farms and food businesses facing rising costs.

An artful farewell: Three Sisters Sanctuary founder reflects on mortality in final work

GOSHEN — Very few people get to work on a project relating to death in the months leading up to their own. Richard Richardson, founder of the Three Sisters Sanctuary in Goshen, is one of them. Down a gravel path at the sanctuary off Cape Street, visitors pass several abstract machine creations. They next encounter […]

Greenfield Education Foundation marks 16 years of supporting teachers, students

For the past 16 years, the Greenfield Education Foundation has functioned as a volunteer-run nonprofit that bridges local school budget gaps by funding teacher requests for classroom supplies, field trips and equipment.

UMass staff, faculty rally for higher pay, other benefits

Hundreds of university employees held a Fair Wages Now rally at UMass Amherst on Thursday to demand significant pay increases to combat the rising cost of living.

The World Keeps Turning: The war in Iraq isn't 'a small price to pay'

With over 30,000 documented lies to his credit (or discredit), expecting Donald Trump to speak anything close to the truth is delusional. Just last week, he claimed that Minnesota Democrats want to forcibly change children’s gender identity without parental consent, and that the American economy is doing great! Only those at the farthest fringes of […]