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BY ANITA FRITZTHE GREENFIELD RECORDER FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2021 As the weekend approached with the prediction of low single-digit temperatures into Sunday, the Opioid Task Force of Franklin [...]

OPINION LETTER THE RECORDER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 2020 Such good news… A donor’s gift has made the expansion of the Wells St. homeless shelter possible! The article in the Dec. 2 Recorder did [...]

THE RECORDER SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 2020 Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. Cold weather tugs at the heart like no other time of [...]

BY ANNA FRITZ THE RECORDER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 2020 GREENFIELD — As the weather worsens and temperatures drop each year, 20 people who are homeless are welcomed into ServiceNet’s Wells [...]

BY CHRIS GOUDREAU DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 2020 An anti-racist activist who has organized protests across the Pioneer Valley. A Northampton High School student who made 2,000 [...]

BY GRETA JOCHEM DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2020 NORTHAMPTON — There will be no collection sites around the city on Oct. 4 for Shelter Sunday, the annual fundraiser for [...]

Since late May, we have witnessed millions of people across the country marching in the streets and standing vigil to honor the life, and protest the brutal death, of George Floyd. And to [...]

BY NOAH BAUSTIN THE RECORDER FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2020 Shawn Robinson remembers a ServiceNet client who wouldn’t leave the house for long periods of time. But then the agency brought in some farm [...]

BY CHRIS GOUDREAU DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH, 2020 Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ilene Erskine, a 60-year-old Belchertown resident, had been attending BakuCare — an adult day [...]

By SCOTT MERZBACH THE DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE MONDAY, MAY 4TH, 2020 Recent testing for COVID-19 among homeless individuals staying at shelters in Northampton and Amherst, as well as staff and [...]