Mitch Grosky, a Selectboard and School Committee member, will undergo a kidney transplant today, with a former student from his days in the classroom donating the kidney.

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Greenfield Community College faces a $2.86 million budget deficit, leading to proposed cuts that faculty argue will harm education quality.

Overview: Athol's Town Manager, Shaun Suhoski, has proposed a two-year, two-phase plan to address the town's $1.78 million deficit, which includes using the town's free cash and cutting $352,000 from ...

Seven Sisters Midwifery & Community Birth Center in Florence, Massachusetts’ only freestanding birth center for low-risk deliveries, is in danger of shuttering, a Northampton senator recently alerted ...

AMHERST — Hampshire College will close at the end of the calendar year, bringing to an end an institution that enrolled its first students in 1970. “This is an extremely painful, deeply sad day for ...

The Selectboard voted unanimously to submit an application for a $950,000 FY26 Community Development Block Grant to fund the Exchange Street improvement project, which includes sidewalk and ...

Athol's ParkMobile app-based parking system is now live in downtown metered areas, allowing drivers to pay for parking using their phones, with rates of 50 cents per hour and a 40-cent transaction fee ...

Franklin County Technical School will hire a fifth special education instructor due to a 32% increase in students with IEP's, which was made possible by a change in health insurance that saved the ...

Weston Willoughby and Mike Davis won the 61st annual Athol River Rat Race, while Maple Dubois and Jack Morse won the mixed recreational division and Phil Stevens and Daisy Stevens won the youth and ...

Three singer-songwriters over the age of 50 will perform an evening of original music at the Athol Public Library, with the goal of showing that age does not diminish creativity and emphasizing the ...