Greenfield Recorder
Greenfield City Council to consider rent control resolution
Greenfield City Council will vote on a resolution to support statewide rent control initiatives, which would cap rent increases at 5% per year and allow cities and towns to opt into rent control.
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6mNorthfield Planning Board denies permit for BlueWave Solar in 3-2 vote
The Northfield Planning Board narrowly denied BlueWave Solar's special permit application for a new 4,316-panel solar array on Pine Meadow Road in a 3-2 vote on Tuesday night.
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6mMy Turn: Increasing resilient forest carbon through active management
We’re writing in response to Al Norman’s Aug. 19 opinion column, “Seeing the forest through the trees.” A great irony is that, in arguing that Greenfield residents lack appropriate focus on larger tracts of forest in favor of street trees, Norman himself regurgitates commonly held misconceptions regarding forest conditions, health, climate change, carbon, and logging […]
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5mGreenfield City Council to consider data center moratorium following governor's order
Following Governor Maura Healey's executive order requiring municipal approval for new data centers, the Greenfield Economic Development Committee voted to recommend a one-year moratorium on their construction to the City Council.
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9mHealey order subjects proposed data centers to local approvals
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday subjecting proposed data center projects to local approval before developers can move on to state permitting, representing her administration’s latest crackdown on the facilities after halting tax breaks earlier this summer. As the artificial intelligence boom marches on, pending data centers in Massachusetts will now […]
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3mLeverett hires new police sergeant
The Leverett Selectboard appointed Benjamin Peters as the department's new sergeant following his successful interview in late August.