Domenic Poli

1 week ago | recorder.com | Domenic Poli

ORANGE — The Wheeler Memorial Library’s Children’s Room has reopened to the public nearly 10 months after flooding caused by a contractor’s error and a rainstorm. The basement of the 49 East Main St. library will now be open during regular hours. Children’s programming will be moved there from the Moore-Leland Library in North Orange, where it had been held since the flooding.

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ORANGE — Solar panels have been installed on Fisher Hill Elementary School’s roof, another step in a renovation project that began nearly five years ago. Free activities and a talk about solar panels were held at the school for Earth Day and Bruce Scherer, chair of the Orange School Building Committee, explained how the 480 panels from Solect Energy will produce half the electricity that the school uses in one year.

1 week ago | atholdailynews.com | Domenic Poli

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Police Logs Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles From left, Orange Selectboard Clerk Andrew Smith, member Mike Bates, member Jane Peirce, Vice Chair Julie Davis, Chair Tom Smith and Town Administrator Matthew Fortier sit at a table during Wednesday’s Selectboard meeting.

1 week ago | recorder.com | Domenic Poli

ORANGE — Solar panels have been installed on Fisher Hill Elementary School’s roof, another step in a renovation project that began nearly five years ago. Free activities and a talk about solar panels were held at the school for Earth Day and Bruce Scherer, chair of the Orange School Building Committee, explained how the 480 panels from Solect Energy will produce half the electricity that the school uses in one year.

1 week ago | recorder.com | Domenic Poli

Defense attorney Isaac Mass, left, listens to a prosecutor while standing next to his client, Eric Fenton, in Franklin County Superior Court during sentencing on Friday afternoon. GREENFIELD — An Athol man will spend the next five to seven years in state prison after being found guilty of charges related to child abuse.