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ASHFIELD — Route 116 will be fully closed near the intersection with Route 112 from 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 7, to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 11 to allow for repairs, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The following detours are...

Good morning and welcome to our therapy session. I think there are enough chairs for all of you — wait, don’t trip over the cat. Here, I’ll put him outside.I’ve asked you all here to discuss another round of This Very Cool Old House. We do this fairly...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — With no public entry into Elmer’s Store because of a damaged porch, the Elmer’s Revitalization Steering Committee is still bringing the community together, albeit on the sidewalk.The steering committee, which bought Elmer’s Store for...

By DOMENIC POLI

SHELBURNE — Calvin and Joan Clark’s business employs 24 people and occupies about 80,000 square feet of Quonset huts at 400 Mohawk Trail. Not bad for something that began out of a three-room apartment in a Colrain farmhouse 50 years ago.Clark’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

As five Franklin County towns continue to build and implement pollinator habitat corridor plans, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) is issuing a call for the public to get involved.Residents of Ashfield, Buckland, Colrain, Deerfield...

By CHRIS LARABEE

As some of the worst flooding since Hurricane Irene battered parts of Franklin County on Monday, area farms spent Tuesday morning assessing the damage left by the deluge.Rain fell across western Massachusetts from Sunday evening through Monday...

By NAN PARATI

Back in about 2006, I was working at the Green River Festival, making the signs, when I heard a band play that I hadn’t heard of before — a couple of guys with good words and intertwining harmonies. I liked them a lot. Their accents sounded quite...

Ashfield church hosts Youth Climate Action Now ASHFIELD — An interactive climate workshop led by Youth Climate Action Now (YCAN) was held at the First Congregational Church earlier this month. The event was co-sponsored by Belding Memorial Library,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — As election season approaches this fall, the League of Women Voters of Franklin County held a town clerk panel to give folks a glimpse into the role.The panel followed the league’s business meeting and election of officers and directors...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — A $20,000 grant from the American Library Association is assisting in Belding Memorial Library’s efforts to be more accessible for seniors and people with disabilities. “Through this next year, the feedback of our community will guide how...

Colrain Historical Society hosting industrial history talkCOLRAIN — The Colrain Historical Society will host an industrial history program following its business meeting on Thursday, June 8, in the Stacy Barn, located behind the Pitt House at 8 Main...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — Inspired by a model being used in Clifton Park, New York, Dalton resident Tom Irwin is going across Massachusetts to drum up support for a bill that would create a statewide paint recycling program.The bill, H.823 and S.551, has been...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

SUNDERLAND — Three years after a police officer murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis, his legacy survives his shortened time on Earth, even on the other side of the country.Rallies across Franklin County on Thursday, the anniversary of his death, were...

By JENNIFER MARKENS

For the past five years, serving as a representative to the Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee, I’ve witnessed both past decline but also the sustained effort of district educational leadership and increasingly outstanding...

By NAN PARATI

When I arrived in Ashfield in the summer of 2005 for a two-week stint as signwriter for the Green River Festival, I had no grand ideas for a 180-degree turn in life; I was just happy to be out of the Louisiana heat, celebrating the coincidence where a...

ASHFIELD — One two-year seat on the Park Commission remains vacant following a failure to elect on Saturday.The position had five write-in candidates — Shirley Lilly, Helene Leue, Tom Aurigemma, John Nawrocki and Bryon Pepyne — with each receiving...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — Residents passed all 35 warrant articles at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting, but not without a heated debate about gun rights that arose during discussion of a new excessive noise bylaw. The proposal, which was brought to Town Meeting via a...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — Residents will consider citizen’s petitions that seek to curb excessive noise — a proposal inspired by disruptive gun sounds — and banning single-use plastic when they convene for Annual Town Meeting on Saturday.The Annual Town Meeting,...

By JAMES PENTLAND

GOSHEN — Capping a gradual transition from the business world to small-town law enforcement, Fred Bezio was recently named chief of police in Goshen. Bezio, 53, started working as a police officer seven years ago in neighboring Ashfield, where his...