Friday, February 15, 2013
TURNERS FALLS — The Franklin County Technical School’s tentative budget for the coming school year calls for a 2.5 percent total increase in assessments to member towns and includes a cut to the teaching staff of the business technology shop and the creation of a new administrative position. …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
They shared birthdays two days apart, and they lived about a mile from one another — he in Charlemont and she in Colrain. She was 33 when they saw one another that special September day at the Catamount …
Monday, February 11, 2013
While most hunkered down for the storm Friday night, Greenfield resident Terri Kerner reached for her skis and, leaving her Leyden Road home at 9:30 p.m., made the two-mile trek in time for the 11 p.m. start of …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
While by now most will have dug themselves out from the weekend’s blizzard, there are some winter safety tips to be observed even after the initial excavation. To facilitate access in the case of an emergency, Greenfield Fire …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Sore backs and narrowed streets were the major legacies of the weekend snowstorm that left Franklin County blanketed in snow but largely unscathed, with police and firefighters around Franklin County reporting little damage. Most credited the road travel …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
It took 14 years, but the owners of the now-decommissioned Yankee Atomic Electric plant in Rowe have won a $38.3 million settlement from the federal government for its failure to meet a contractual obligation to take possession of …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Thousands of fish ladders have been constructed in the U.S. since the 1700s — many using tax dollars — but few people have assessed whether the passages built to help fish travel over dams actually work. It turns …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Franklin County fire chiefs have raised the possibility of creating a regional fire service, asking area towns to help secure state money for a regionalization study. “The time is upon us to talk honestly and frankly about regionalization …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
TURNERS FALLS — What might owners of the hydroelectric stations on the Connecticut River do for Franklin County in return for using the river to make money in coming decades? Whitewater paddling, better river access for paddlers, more …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
From the Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Barundi and other parts of South Africa, the refugee children told their “Suitcase Stories,” part of an art therapy research project that helped them come to terms with what they’d experienced while walking …
