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Retiring principal makes bid for school board

GREENFIELD -- With just a week to go before the town's June 25 election, retiring Greenfield grade school principal Donna Gleason has launched a write-in campaign for School Committee. She'll challenge…

Driver in fatal accident gets suspended sentence

GREENFIELD -- The teenage driver of a car that struck and fatally injured a Connecticut motorcyclist last July has been given a suspended jail sentence and community service, speaking about distracted…

Double Edge founder wins $225K award

ASHFIELD -- Double Edge Theatre's founder and artistic director, Stacy Klein, has received the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's 2013 Artist Award, presented to "20 of America's most vital artists working…

Volunteers, students team up in penpal program

GREENFIELD -- C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" has been a classroom bookshelf classic for six decades, a blockbuster movie hit and, this spring, the topic of a series of letters between…

Third Thursday in Turners Falls kicks off

TURNERS FALLS -- The RiverCulture program's latest venture, a monthly downtown cultural evening, begins Thursday with knights and photography taking center stage and closing with a free outdoor screening…

Council to vote on controversial reappointment

GREENFIELD -- Mayor William Martin has said he is not going to play "political games" with town councilors who are trying to block a longtime Planning Board member's nomination to a new term. After hearing…

Town Council to discuss election changes

GREENFIELD -- Town Council will discuss possible changes to election dates and how long officials serve in town government at its regular monthly meeting tonight beginning at 7. The full council will…

Motion to slash preschool opposed

ORANGE -- While some tweaks to budget line items were approved at the annual meeting this week, tempers wore thin as the hour grew later and a major cut in school spending was suggested by a Finance Committee…

Goodbye, Carlinville: Filming ends in Shelburne

SHELBURNE -- The "Crawford County Sheriff's Dept" sign is gone from above the doorway of Memorial Hall, and the "Carlinville Savings Bank" is once again Greenfield Cooperative Bank. On Monday and Tuesday,…