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For communities grappling with vacant and dilapidated mill buildings, Orange’s recent cereal factory fire serves as a stark reminder that action is needed to safeguard property in anticipation of potential disaster. The fire, which destroyed the...

For communities grappling with vacant and dilapidated mill buildings, Orange’s recent cereal factory fire serves as a stark reminder that action is needed to safeguard property in anticipation of potential disaster. The fire, which destroyed the...

Emerging from another year ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials in Montague, Gill and Erving remain optimistic that 2022 can remain productive with major improvement efforts, including redevelopment of former mill complexes and the installation...

MONTAGUE — Town officials are moving forward with an idea to put mixed-income housing at the former Railroad Salvage site and on First Street.The parcels would be developed as “Smart Growth Overlay Districts,” defined by Massachusetts General Law...

>> man: when i grew up in greenfield, everybody had jobs. i worked from the time i was 13. if i had to go back there, now, i dont believe in drugs, i dont have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. whats a good business? well-paying business? im sorry. thats where we are. ♪ >> anthony: yes, it used to be a very different world, towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the...

I worked from the time i was 13. if i had to go back there, now, i dont believe in drugs, i dont have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. whats a good business? well-paying business? im sorry. thats where we are. ♪ >> anthony: yes, it used to be a very different world, towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of so...

Closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> ed: my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born in 1945. my father was an employee of the strathmore mill, as was my grandfather. during the hay day, there were three paper mills, a cotton mill, a silk mill, a foundry, a beehive of activity here. >> anthony: back then, a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided h...

>> anthony: yes, it used to be a very different world, towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> ed: my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born in 1945. my father was an employee of the strathmore mill, as was my grandfather. during the hay day, there were three paper mills, a cotton mill, a silk m...

Dont have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. whats a good business? well-paying business? im sorry. thats where we are. ♪ >> anthony: yes, it used to be a very different world, towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> ed: my name is ed gregory, originally fro...

And there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> ed: my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born in 1945. my father was an employee of the strathmore mill, as was my grandfather. during the hay day, there were three paper mills, a cotton mill, a silk mill, a foundry, a beehive of activity here. >> anthony: back then, a company...