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GREENFIELD — Fifth-grader Teagan Cardaropoli needed to find a book that would pique the interest of a 5-year-old boy who likes to fish. Her solution was “Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea” by Steve Metzger.

BERNARDSTON — When the annual Grammy music awards are televised Sunday, a third man with local ties will be in the audience, with or without his own musical recognition already secured.
Mathieu Lejeune, credited as Mat, was nominated with four others for the prestigious music award in the category “best engineered album, classical category.”

GREENFIELD — Budget season is upon the town and the mayor is looking to “bolster and strengthen” all departments.

GREENFIELD — The New York man who bought the former Abercrombie building on Bank Row in 2008 has purchased the small piece of land next door in hopes that it may someday become a walkway to the building, a parking lot with limited parking or maybe something else, he said.

GREENFIELD — The local real estate developer who renovated the former Mix ‘n’ Match building on Olive Street, turning it into a green apartment building, has purchased another old building in town and has plans to do something similar.
Mark Zaccheo has purchased the vacant brick school building at 51 Allen St. from a developer in Spencer for $80,000.

GREENFIELD — Staples in the Big Y plaza on the Mohawk Trail has begun renovations to reduce the size of its store by one third.
That comes just a little more than a week after the Dollar Tree store next door closed and left the plaza.

GREENFIELD — Franklin County’s sheriff thinks the “Vermont state prison system coddled” the inmates who trashed their cell block in a July riot at the county jail. But, he said, those prisoners, who have been housed in the Greenfield jail for lack of room in the Vermont prisons, “are in for a rude awakening when they get to Walpole.”

February 7, 2012

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