Northfield Planning Board denies permit for BlueWave Solar in 3-2 vote

My 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 […]

Greenfield 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.

Healey 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 […]

Leverett hires new police sergeant

The Leverett Selectboard appointed Benjamin Peters as the department's new sergeant following his successful interview in late August.

Smith College remembers Gloria Steinem, the alumna who called campus her ‘enormous refuge’

For Gloria Steinem, a renowned feminist activist, organizer, reporter and author, Smith College wasn’t just a school — it was “an enormous refuge.” “It was the first time that I felt free,” she said in a 2007 oral history. Steinem’s alma mater gave her mental and physical distance from childhood years spent taking care of […]