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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. Richar...

Opioid Task Force holds third annual Sober Housing Summit Modified: 12/11/2020 4:39:50 PM As the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and North Quabbin’s third annual Sober Housing Summit came to an end Friday at noon, Sheriff Christopher Donelan suggested to Shawn Hayden that they take a ride up the Mohawk Trail sometime soon to look at old or abandoned motels that might be the answer to the lack of sober housing in Franklin County. Hayden, chief operating officer of GAAMHA Inc., better known as Pathway House, a self-help group home in Gardner, said the task force made a lot of progress th...

Nearly 250 new homes plus Health & Safety Improvements at 12 Shelters Statewide Vermont Business Magazine When the Vermont Legislature turned to the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board to manage $34.25 million in CARES Act funding appropriated in June and July, it came with a very short timeline: all the money had to be spent by the end of December. The federal funds, from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, were targeted to secure and rehabilitate permanent housing for homeless households and to make improvements to shelters in communities around the state. Due t...