GREENFIELD Health officials plan to draft a local ordinance to ensure the health and well-being of neglected farm animals while required improvements are made to their confinement areas.The ordinance, which the Board of Health recently gave its.
Editor’s note: The Greenfield Recorder plans to provide regular updates on the risk level of COVID-19 transmission as wastewater testing results are received. With health officials seeing higher volumes of infection in wastewater results and an.
In an effort to better understand the needs of, and resources available to, local health departments and boards of health, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is conducting a capacity assessment on 310 communities, several of which are in.
ORANGE Lake Mattawa has been closed to recreation due to unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria being detected, the Board of Health announced Wednesday.According to Health Agent Matthew Fortier, a sample was taken Tuesday as part of the Housatonic Basin.
As of June 15, just over two years since the first COVID-19 case was identified in Franklin County, a total of 7,619 cases have been reported between Greenfield, Montague, Deerfield and Sunderland the four towns benefiting from a $250,000 Department.