A community gift: Heartwing Center and Patriots' Borregales team up for turkey giveaway

Turners Falls nonprofit hopes to raise $4,800 to fund Thanksgiving turkey distribution featuring Patriots kicker

The Heartwing Center is seeking to raise $4,800 to provide 200 free turkeys to families in Montague and surrounding areas this Thanksgiving with support from New England Patriots kicker Andy Borregales.

'Voices of Young Peacemakers' event in Greenfield shares stories of courage, kinship

Keynote speakers Nate Woodard and Corinne Coryat headlined the Voices of Young Peacemakers event at the Greenfield Public Library, an gathering organized by Sarah Pirtle to inspire attendees through stories of courage and kinship.

North County Notebook: Nov. 11, 2026

Bernardston Senior Center hosting holiday gala BERNARDSTON — The Bernardston Senior Center invites community members to “The Art of Not Aging Holiday Gala” on Monday, Nov. 16. The event will include musical entertainment from The Boys From ’69, a duo made up of Jim Barber (acoustic guitar and vocals) and Bill McComb (bass guitar, lead […]

Speaking of Nature: A bitter rivalry: American vs. Asiatic Bittersweet

As the deciduous trees slowly lose their leaves, they start to reveal long-held secrets. At first the most obvious secrets are the nests of birds that you may have spent the summer looking for. Skillfully placed in areas that are thick with summer foliage, the nests become obvious once the veil is dropped, and it […]

Clean power won. Now comes the hard part

Sometimes, change comes at you so fast that you forget to congratulate yourself on what you’ve achieved. Take the switch of the world’s electricity grids from fossil fuels to clean power. The transition to renewables will “require generations of perseverance” and be harder than previous shifts between wood, coal, oil and gas, which took half […]