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FALL RIVER — With the help of federal COVID-19 funding, the city is taking a new approach to combat homelessness: reaching out to the homeless and bringing them to the services they need.  “In years past, we had all these homeless people and we didn’t know how to get right to them. We waited until after they asked for help. Now, we go to them and tell them we are here for you if you need us,” said Niki Fontaine, who along with her partner, Marc Pires, are the two new full-time ...

Opioid Task Force garners grant to promote racial equity in treatment MERRIGAN Published: 2/11/2021 6:44:24 PM GREENFIELD — A two-year, $99,974 grant that the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region has received from the State Attorney General’s Office will support recovery programs and behavioral health services for people who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The Opioid Task Force will use the grant to implement its “Cultural Humility in Post-Opioid O...

Not the end of the overdose crisis, but perhaps the beginning of the end: Justin Herdman Updated Jan 10, 2021; Posted Jan 10, 2021 FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, medications slated for destruction are shown in a locked storage area of the police department in Barberton, Ohio. In a guest column today, just-departed U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman writes of progress in tackling the drug-overdose crisis in northern Ohio. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP Facebook Share By Guest Columni...

To the editor: According to Ms. Stefanik, the opioid cross has had “devastating impacts on the North Country.” As a constituent who lost a brother this year to that very crisis, I could not agree more. While reviewing the congresswoman’s Opioid Task Force agenda, I did not once see the word “drug addict.” And yet, she pointedly used that slur in a recent tweet, in an attempt to disparage her frequent target, Gov. Cuomo, who was attempting to protect our vulnerable group populations...

Top 10 Newsmakers for 2020: Part 2 Greenfield City Clerk Kathy Scott swears in Mayor Roxann Wedegartner at the Allen Meeting Room at the John W. Olver Transit Center on Jan. 2, 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ As part of her job with the Franklin Regional Council of Governments and the Communities That Care Coalition, Greenfield resident Keyedrya Jacobs is working on social justice issues in local schools. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz Congressman Richard Neal speaks on Sept. 1 at Union Station...

Oregon State Advocates FIght to Reverse Opioid Guidelines That Hurt Chronic Pain Patients Wendy Sinclair © The Mighty Medicines pills scattered on a prescription pad with a pen The past five years has been especially difficult for those suffering with intractable medical conditions that cause chronic pain. Even before the 2016 CDC guidelines for prescribing opioids, the social climate began turning against anyone who utilized opioid pain medications, whether for chronic pai...

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 ...