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HilltwnFamilies: Interested in getting #solar for your home? #NorthamptonMA is participating in Solarize Mass program! (link) #westernma
HilltwnFamilies: Host Families in #WesternMA Needed for Spanish Teens. Arrive Wed, June 26, for a 3 ½ week home stay. Find out more:(link)S
HilltwnFamilies: Love our Family Community Service Event recently? Join our Volunteer Committee and help us do it again! (link)
Mauer returns to lineup for Twins
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Joe Mauer has returned to the Minnesota Twins lineup after missing one game because of a stiff back.
HilltwnFamilies: Great Line up of Local & Regional Musicians Slated to Perform at the Hilltown Spring Festival on June 1st! (link) #westernma
Mass. Senate to debate $34B spending plan
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate is likely to spend several days considering a $34 billion state budget proposal.
HilltwnFamilies: May 21-"Puberty for Parents," part of the @HilltwnFamilies' Talking to Your Kids About Sex Series: (link) #westernma #sexED
HilltwnFamilies: Recap Map: #WesternMA Weekend Summary & Family Guide for May 18-19 (link) .@VisitMA #pioneervalley #berkshires #hilltowns
Welcome hope party for RI marathon bombing victim
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings is preparing to attend a welcome home party at Rosecliff, a fabulous mansion in Newport featured in a film version of "The Great Gatsby."
Welcome home party for RI marathon bombing victim
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings is preparing to attend a welcome home party at Rosecliff, a Newport mansion featured in the film version of "The Great Gatsby."
Gomes sac fly in 10th lifts Red Sox over Twins
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Will Middlebrooks gave Boston a comeback victory the night before with a big swing. This time, he dropped down a bunt to advance the go-ahead run.
HilltwnFamilies: Learn Local/Play Local: 4 History Highlights on Sat in #WesternMA: #Hawley, #Stockbridge, #Monterey & #ShelburneFalls (link)
HilltwnFamilies: Dance Theatre of Harlem opens @JacobsPillow Dance Festival, Jun 19-23 in #BECKET #WesternMA #Berkshires @DTHBallet @LiftEvryVoice
HilltwnFamilies: Four early childhood events happening on Sat in #WesternMA in #Springfield #ShelburneFalls #Pittsfield & #Athol: (link)
Float your boat
Ever since I moved to Franklin County in 2010 and started to explore its rivers from the shore, I've wanted to get out on the water. Thing is, boats cost money. Or do they? I had a small fishing boat,…
Poets of Franklin County: "Plum," a new online journal
Frozen Spanish plums glistened in a glass bowl during Wednesday's celebratory launch of Greenfield Community College's new online literary journal, a beautiful -- and delicious -- visual reference to…
Between the Rows: Growing up
Some people have small spaces for a garden. Some people can only care for a small garden. Some people are trying to make a big garden small. What all these people have in common is a desire to grow as…
Lapointe -- 70th
SARASOTA, FL -- Former Greenfield, MA, residents Harold and Norma Lapointe will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The couple was married in Norfolk, VA, during WWII. They…
Slowinski-Schatz
COLRAIN -- Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Slowinski of Colrain announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Marie, to John Brian Schatz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Schatz of Acton. Ms. Slowinski is a…
HilltwnFamilies: Dance Theatre of Harlem opens @JacobsPillow Dance Festival season, June 19-23 in #Lenox #WesternMA #Berkshires @DTHBallet @JacobsPillow
TheRecorderNews: Miss any installments of our weeklong series on heroin in #FranklinCounty? You can read all of the stories at (link).
HilltwnFamilies: @BrkshireThrGrp will host their 8th Annual Richie duPont Award Event on June 8 at 8pm at Firefly Restaurant in Lenox! #berkshires #westernma
Man freed in drug lab scandal faces murder charge
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - Authorities say a man freed from prison last year because of alleged mishandling of evidence in a state drug lab scandal has been charged with a fatal shooting in Brockton.
Backed-out Mauer, Victorino sit Twins-Sox opener
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer has a stiff back, keeping him out of the lineup for the series opener against Boston.
