By CHRIS COLLINS
(Deerfield, MA) — Deerfield town voters will once again be conducting government business outdoors next month. Deerfield Town Moderator Dan Graves has announced that the upcoming October 4 special town meeting will be held outdoors on the baseball field at Frontier Regional School–the same spot where the spring annual town meeting took place. Graves’ decision ends a pretty tense disagreement among Deerfield’s Selectboard, which was split on whether to hold the meeting at the Frontier auditorium or outdoors, given the current threat posed by the COVID 19 Delta variant.