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Tornado warning had western Mass. wary Wednesday

Thursday, May 23, 2013

People were forced underground as a tornado warning was issued for areas along and to the south of the Route 2 corridor Wednesday evening. Shortly after 5 p.m., the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for central Franklin County. It wound up all for naught, but better safe than sorry, as they say. The tornado warning was cancelled at about 6:15 p.m. The tornado warning was spurred by severe … 0

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Summer Forcier, a senior at Turners Falls High School, works with students at the Pre-K Discovery Program at the Great Falls Middle School.

Third Gill-Montague pre-K programs installed at Great Falls Middle School

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

TURNERS FALLS — Chanda Waryas O’Keefe’s room may be the only Great Falls Middle School classroom with a sandbox and no middle-schoolers. The 13 students in the classroom on a Tuesday morning are in the 3-to-5 age range, with two exceptions — both teens. Then-interim superintendent Nadine Ekstrom moved the district’s third preschool … 0

Shea Theater hoping to help victims of Marathon bombing

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

TURNERS FALLS — The Shea Theater hopes to bring in donations for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings with an outdoor screening of “Field of Dreams” on Thursday night. “‘Field of Dreams’ is a fantastic movie to highlight so much of what makes Boston, our state and the entire country such a remarkable and wonderful place to call home,” reads a release … 0