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Orange Farmers’ Market to open this week The Orange Farmers’ Market is reopening for the season on Thursdays starting May 13, and will continue through Oct. 14 at the Orange Armory, pictured. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz Published: 5/11/2021 4:09:28 PM ORANGE — The Orange Farmers’ Market is reopening from 3 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays starting May 13, and will continue through Oct. 14 at the Orange Armory at 135 East Main St. Tony Leger, chair of the Orange Farmers’ Market Committee, said the committee is working with town officials to address COVID-19 health safety concerns. Face masks w...

Busier than usual: Farms, farmers’ markets adjusted to pandemic in 2020 Peter Kretzenger of Turners Falls, right, makes a sale at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Jeff Kingsbury of Kingsbury Farms in Deerfield selling fruit and vegetables at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Tur...

Thanks to partnership, program resumes hot meals in Orange Franklin County Community Meals Program Executive Director Rachel Berggren and Hillside Organic Catering co-owner Patrick O’Hearn outside the rear entrance to the Orange Armory, where hot meals and packaged foods are handed out on Thursdays from 5 to 5:30 p.m. STAFF PHOTO/ZACK DELUCA Hillside Organic Catering has partnered with the Franklin County Community Meals Program to provide hot, prepared meals at the Orange Armory each Thursday. Last week involved pulled pork macaroni and cheese with a side salad for 50 people. STAFF PHOTO/Z...

ORANGE — Thanks to a new partnership with local restaurants, the Franklin County Community Meals Program has been able to resume serving hot meals to those in need in Orange for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.Franklin County...

Franklin County Community Meals Program hopes to raise $50K by year’s end Shane Trudeau puts together a food order at the Orange Food Pantry on East Main Street in August with Rachel Berggren, executive director of the Franklin County Community Meals Program. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Modified: 12/17/2020 4:27:22 PM GREENFIELD — Giving Tuesday was “just the kickoff” to the Franklin County Community Meals Program’s effort to raise $50,000 by the end of the year, says Executive Director Rachel Berggren. Even before Giving Tuesday on Dec. 1, Berggren said the agency was raising mone...