All articles pass at Heath Town Meeting, including school maintenance costs
About 110 voters gathered outside the former Heath Elementary School on Saturday morning to approve 25 articles at Annual Town Meeting. Staff Photo/Zack DeLuca
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HEATH Annual Town Meeting voters approved all 25 articles Saturday, including revisions to town zoning bylaws, two nonbinding articles put forward by citizen’s petition and a fiscal year 2022 budget with an 8 percent increase that includes money to maintain the former elementary school building.
Approximately 110 voters gathered at 9 a.m. under a tent at the former Heath Elementary School at 18 Jacobs Road. While all articles ultimately passed, the meeting lasted nearly four hours with discussion on multiple articles.
‘Giving back is paramount’: Greenfield mayor, staff help with community meal program
Stone Soup Cafe volunteers Whitney Robbins, from left, Marjorie Morgan and Maegan Boutot pack up takeout meals Saturday afternoon at All Souls Church in Greenfield. FOR THE RECORDER/DAN LITTLE
Regina Osciak, left, talks with Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on Saturday afternoon outside of the Stone Soup Cafe at All Souls Church in Greenfield. FOR THE RECORDER/DAN LITTLE
Stone Soup Cafe volunteers Maegan Boutot, from right, Marjorie Morgan and Whitney Robbins pack up a meal for Jay Goldspinner on Saturday afternoon at All Souls Church in Greenfield. FOR THE RECORDER/DAN LITTLE
GCC receives $175K grant for collaborative pilot program
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Published: 4/22/2021 4:57:50 PM
GREENFIELD Greenfield Community College has received a $175,000 grant to help create a space where, with the help of collaborators, it will provide job training programs, products and services to benefit the region.
GCC President Yves Salomon-Fernandez said the Greater Franklin County Rural Innovation Accelerator will bring together people from the municipalities of Greenfield, Orange and Athol, the Franklin County Community Development Corporation, LaunchSpace in Orange and the Center on Rural Innovation in Vermont to “build a foundation focused on the digital, creative and agricultural economies” that can be sustained over time.
GCC president launches online conversation series
SALOMON-FERNANDEZ
Published: 4/20/2021 3:23:21 PM
GREENFIELD Greenfield Community College is launching “Candor with Prez Yves,” a biweekly online conversation series hosted by GCC President Yves Salomon-Fernández that will feature guests from Western Massachusetts and beyond.
Salomon-Fernández said she was inspired to create “Candor with Prez Yves” by the wealth of extraordinary leaders and activists engaged in crucial work locally and throughout the state.
“There’s so much that we can be sharing during this time, that we can be celebrating, and there are challenges that we are all facing,” she said in a GCC press release. “We are finding ways that work, and we’re also learning a lot through those struggles. I thought it would be a great opportunity to engage these thoughtful leaders and action-oriented leaders in sharing some of those.”
Business Briefs: March 5, 2021
CARPENTER Businesses can
apply for PPP loans through March 9
GREENFIELD The Franklin County Community Development Corporation (CDC) encourages all small businesses to apply quickly to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Paycheck Protection Program.
According to a notice from Amy Shapiro, business development director with the Franklin County CDC, the SBA is trying to reach out to small business owners with fewer than 20 employees, as well as self-employed business owners. The notice advises that business owners who were previously ineligible due to low net income may now be eligible under the program’s new guidelines. The new form (PPP Form 2583C) can be submitted through your bank before 5 p.m. on March 9.