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‘An environmental endeavor’: Bee Fest returns to Greenfield for 14th year on Saturday
GREENFIELD — Downtown Greenfield will be buzzing with activities on Saturday as Bee Fest returns for its 14th year. The roughly three-hour festival honors the Rev. Lorenzo Langstroth, the sixth minister of Second Congregational Church who is known as...
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High Schools: Frontier boys, girls track finish season unbeaten in Intercounty League
Both the Frontier boys and girls track and field teams closed out the regular season with unblemished records to take home Intercounty League titles. The Redhawks traveled to Greenfield on Monday, with the Frontier boys picking up an 85-60 triumph...
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My Turn: Laurels and the laureate
This column is about my daughter Jo, her daughters Kobin and Ramona, a horse named Lady and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. And it also isn’t.Kobin is 5, almost 6. Ramona is 3, close to 4. Jo, the girls and their dad, Jo’s husband Dean, live in...
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Retired police officer, veteran opens firearms training academy in Millers Falls
MILLERS FALLS — The Western Massachusetts Training & Education Academy offers an array of firearm courses taught by certified instructor and U.S. Marine veteran Leon “Lee” Laster. But you won’t find live ammunition on site.That’s because the new...
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Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Venture beyond your garden walls: Plant sales and noteworthy gardens to visit this season
After long weeks of yearning for gardening weather, we’re suddenly inundated by spring. Endless outdoor chores beg for our attention — composting, mulching, edging, scrubbing birdbaths and, at least in my garden beds, pulling out multitudes of maple...
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Montague, MA - Cecile Anna (Ouellet) Chartier, 95 years old, of Turnpike Rd. passed away Wednesday April 24, 2024 at Charlene Manor Extended Care Facility. She was born in La Poca Tier, Quebec, Canada November 22, 1928, the daughter of ... remainder of obit for Cecile A. Chartier
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Bedford, MA - On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, Joan Clausen Vander Vliet, of Carleton Willard Village in Bedford, MA, went home to God surrounded by her loving family. Born in New Rochelle, NY on November 15, 1929, she was the daughter of ... remainder of obit for Joan Vander Vliet
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Turners Falls, MA - Linda S. (Gravelle) Rodovich, 71, of Warner Street died Sunday 5/5/24 at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. She was born in Greenfield on September 1, 1952, the daughter of Emil and Phyllis (Phelan) Gravelle... remainder of obit for Linda S. Rodovich
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Alfreda "Sally" M. (Steven's) LaBier Greenfield, MA - Alfreda "Sally" M. (Stevens) LaBier, 79, of Greenfield, died Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at Bear Mountain Healthcare in West Springfield; after a long period of physical and mental decline ... remainder of obit for Alfreda M. LaBier