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GREENFIELD — Robin Wall Kimmerer, a scientist, professor and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, shared with attendees gathered at Greenfield High School on Thursday why the Indigenous perspective is important when it comes to environmental and...

The Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) is considering splitting a $15,000 to $20,000 bill with Montague, Gill, Erving and Northfield to hire legal counsel for the next phase of FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Federal Energy Regulatory...

LAVA Center to host ‘Fish Discover Water Last’ reading GREENFIELD — The LAVA Center at 324 Main St. will host the second in-person presentation of the newly published work “Fish Discover Water Last: Richard L. Grossman on corporations, democracy, and...

Knocking on the doors of Chicago bungalows in 2010, I handed each of my neighbors the first newspaper I ever made. The pages were filled with hard-hitting journalism: a spinach recipe and an incomprehensible crossword puzzle.Since my first foray in...

NORTHFIELD — Ten protesters with the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered at 5 a.m. Wednesday at the intake area of FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station to demand the facility be shut down...

TURNERS FALLS — An engineering consultant filed a report with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection on Monday detailing FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s plan for responding to a hydraulic leak estimated to have released 300 gallons...

TURNERS FALLS — FirstLight Hydro Generating Co. and Clean Harbors environmental services collaborated to seal a hydraulic fluid leak at the Turners Falls Dam this week, entering the final stages of a nearly two-month-long process that raised concern...

MONTAGUE — The Fifth Street pedestrian bridge replacement has been ordered and is expected to be delivered in July, Town Administrator Steve Ellis announced at Monday’s Selectboard meeting.Last slated for replacement by June 30, the pedestrian bridge...

MONTAGUE — Town Administrator Steve Ellis highlighted a discrepancy regarding minimum flow rate regulations across FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s agreements in principle during Monday’s Selectboard meeting, sparking conversation regarding what...

TURNERS FALLS — FirstLight Hydro Generating Co. submitted its hydropower-related flows and fish passage plans to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week as part of its relicensing settlement agreement.The plans, however, were met with...