Virtual town hall focuses on youth trauma, fostering resiliency
The Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region, in collaboration with 11 other organizations, held a virtual town hall Friday. SCREENSHOT
Published: 3/12/2021 5:04:45 PM
The Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region, in collaboration with 11 other organizations, held a virtual town hall Friday to examine the impact of trauma on youths and how communities can foster resiliency.
Featured speakers, some via pre-recorded remarks, spoke at the third “Building a Resilient Community” gathering, held on the video conferencing platform Zoom from 10 a.m. to noon. The event, which at one point had 92 participants, was titled “A Community Response to Break the Cycle of Trauma: A Virtual Town Hall to Address the Needs of Children and Youth in Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region.”
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Holyoke man pleads guilty for mistreating more than 400 fowl in Northampton: Admits to training roosters for cockfighting
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
This is one of the 400 birds seized in Northampton after a raid on a farm. (MSCPA photo)
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NORTHAMPTON – A Holyoke man pled guilty Thursday to badly mistreating hundreds of roosters, that he had trained for illegal cockfighting, which were found during a raid 2018 raid of a small farm in the Florence section of the city.
Miguel Rodriguez, 59, was sentenced to serve two years of probation, the first six months of which will be in home confinement and while wearing a GPS monitoring device, after admitting in Northampton District Court to felony charges of animal cruelty and owning, possessing and training animals for fighting, said Mary Carey, spokeswoman for Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan.
Editorial: Monday Shorts: Dixie lives and we rejoice
Dixie, a 9-year-old Pit Bull mix owned by Dr. Richard Warner, of Buckland, is tended to by EMTs in an ambulance after being rescued from McLeod Pond in Colrain by firefighters Thursday afternoon. COURTESY PHOTO/COLRAIN FIREFIGHTERS’ ASSOCIATION
Published: 12/13/2020 2:25:11 PM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
Our emergency heroes to the rescue
It was a close call for a dog that had bounded out onto McLeod Pond in Colrain and fallen through thin ice. Owner Dr. Richard Warner of Buckland wisely called 911.