Greenfield Center School buyer plans to create apartments >The Marion Bliss Finer Building at the Greenfield Center School’s former location on Montague City Road. Staff Photo/Paul Franz >The Greenfield Center School’s main building at the former location on Montague City Road. The building has been sold to a Brooklyn-based architect with preliminary plans to renovate it into market-rate apartments. Staff Photo/Paul Franz >The Greenfield Center School’s main building at the former location on Montague City Road. The building has been sold to a Brooklyn-based architect with preliminary plans to renovate it into market-rate apartments. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
New $10M Greenfield Center School ready for students next fall >In the reception area of the new Greenfield Center School on Bernardston Road are Business Manager Veronica Phaneuf and Assistant to the Head of School Amanda Richard. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ >Each classroom at the new Greenfield Center School on Bernardston Road has an exterior door. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ > >A second- and third-grade classroom at the new Greenfield Center School on Bernardston Road. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ >The new Greenfield Center School’s 23,678-square-foot, one-story building is set back from Bernardston Road. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ >The project room has a kitchen area at the new Greenfield Center School on Bernardston Road. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Montague Police Logs: April 1 to April 13, 2021
Published: 5/11/2021 4:05:40 PM
Montague, April 1
6:45 a.m. A Federal Street caller states there is a fire in the upstairs bathroom. All parties are out of the house. Call transferred to Shelburne Control. Officer Cody Wells advised. Fire extinguished before officers’ arrival.
2:54 p.m. Postmaster at the Turners Falls Post Office on Avenue A advising someone found a “bag of powder” outside the Post Office, brought it in and left it on a counter. Chief Christopher Williams retrieved the item.
7:22 p.m. Trooper Michael Leslie requests an officer assist him with an aggressive dog at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter on Sandy Lane. Officer Cody Wells advised.
Montague City Road flooding may be resolved by end of 2022
Flooding has been a recurring problem on the stretch of Montague City Road south of the intersection with Turnpike Road in Montague. The issue is expected to be fixed by the end of 2022. Staff File Photo/Dan Little
Published: 4/12/2021 9:30:12 AM
MONTAGUE The flooding problem on Montague City Road is likely to be fixed by the end of 2022, now that a major grant to fund the project has been secured.
While the project is not fully funded yet, town officials suggested that a grant to cover the final portion might be more attainable now that about three-quarters of the project is funded by a new grant worth $237,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
COVID numbers decrease overall in region
Modified: 2/21/2021 11:35:38 AM
While Sunderland remains in the state’s “red” category because of a surge in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19, the rest of the county’s towns have seen a decrease in those numbers.
Sunderland reported 33 new positive cases over the past two weeks, possibly because of the surge in positive cases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while Montague was the only town in Franklin County in the “yellow” or higher-risk category with 23 new cases reported in that time. Athol in Worcester County is also in the “yellow” with 43 new cases. Greenfield is the only town in the “green” or lower-risk category, with 23 cases reported over the past two weeks.