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By ASHLEY SAARI

A community group is seeking to bring residents of the Mascenic School District together to find solutions and middle ground after a contentious voting season.Mitch Gluck started the group, which has about 17 members, after attending the district’s...

By BEN CONANT

Conant and Mascenic came into Monday’s matchup at Humiston Field two very different baseball teams. One, the Orioles, has a college-bound senior pitcher, a strong bullpen, some big bats in the lineup and an experienced head coach. The other, Mascenic,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Greenville’s water and sewer rates will see a significant jump this year, after the Select Board – whose members double as the Water and Sewer Commission – set new rates during its meeting on Wednesday.The rates, set after a short public hearing,...

By BEN CONANT

The Mascenic softball team soared to a 7-0 shutout win over regional and interdivisional rival Conant thanks to a dazzling performance on both sides of the ball from senior pitcher Katalina Davis. “When Kat’s on, they’re not hitting, so she was...

By BILL FONDA

Martin Gitlin grew up near Cleveland, but a trip to Fenway Park in Boston as a 10-year-old in 1967 – the Boston Red Sox “Impossible Dream” season – proved life-changing.“It was such a treat. After that, I vowed I was going to move to New England,” he...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Greenville has received donations of Easter dinner main dishes to help ease the costs for residents in the area.Director Kevin Little said the donations were “significant” and came from local businesses and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Two years after its purchase was approved, the Greenville Fire Department accepted delivery of its new fire truck March 13.In 2022, the town approved $600,000 for the purchase of the vehicle, which has become the department’s new Engine 2. Fire Chief...

Greenfield Elementary School is participating in a school-wide reading initiative this March. The program kicked off with a visit from author and illustrator Marty Kelley, who shared his process for writing and illustrating books. Kelley told stories,...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Greenville residents voted in favor of retaining Keno games in town at Town Meeting on Saturday morning.The article, which was submitted by petition, called for a ballot vote to determine if residents wanted to withdraw the permission for Keno games...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Mascenic will have a default budget for the next school year – a move that the School Board was advocating for – after an operating budget that had been cut by $1 million during the district’s deliberative session failed at the polls Tuesday.A series...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Maggie Bickford will return to the Greenville Select Board, after being elected to complete her term, which she resigned earlier this winter.Bickford had been serving as a Select Board member when she stepped away from the board due to health reasons....

Chamberlin Free Public Library, 46 Main St. in Greenville, will present a program on preparing for the April 8 total solar eclipse.The program will be presented Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.; Monday, March 25, at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 5 at 7 p.m....

By ASHLEY SAARI

Boynton Middle School student Brook Sallila won a special prize from the New Ipswich Museum of History as the first-place winner of the museum’s “Why is History Important?” essay contest – a genuine uniform worn by a World War I soldier.Scott Kraska,...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry President Kevin Little estimates that there will be about 18 different kinds of soup served at the pantry-sponsored Poor Man’s Supper Saturday.The Poor Man’s Supper is intended to be “a very simple meal,” according to...

By ASHLEY SAARI

After approving the use of the electronic lottery game Keno in town last year, Greenville residents will be voting on the matter again in March, following a petition article that asks to rescind the permission.Keno is a game in which players can...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Mason Police Department rescued two lost and stuck ATV riders from the woods on Monday night.The department initiated a search for the women after receiving a call reporting someone in the woods screaming for help off of Starch Mill Road,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Greenville fire crews responded to a house fire on Pleasant Street Saturday.The fire was contained to a single room in the home, according to Greenville Fire Chief Ben Buttrick, and started in the area of a couch, but the department has not determined...

By ASHLEY SAARI

This article has been changed from the original version. Although the Mascenic Regional School Board does not recommend the passage of the proposed budget, the adoption of a local tax cap, the creation of a School Budget Committee and eliminating the...

He’s at it again!  I’ve long felt that Education Secretary Frank Edelblut wants to do away with public education. I find it amazing, that he was appointed with no education background whatsoever. His promotion  of  charter schools has resulted in...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Greenville is proposing a $600,000 bond or loan to design and construct improvements to the town’s wastewater treatment plant on this year’s warrant.The funds, proposed to be the first article on the warrant that will be addressed in March at Town...

Several parents, like myself, have been diligently, without fanfare, dedicating time and energy to the Mascenic school system to fill in gaps for school functions or take up the slack in things like budget analysis and review.Many people asked me to...