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By TINKY WEISBLAT

Sometimes the introductory essays I write for this column seem at first to have nothing to do with food. I promise that if you read patiently, you’ll get a recipe at the end of this one.A couple of months ago, as I was giving a talk to a library about...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — With Halloween just a few days away, nearly all the displays and decorations are set up, but for those seeking a final touch, consider a pumpkin with a heart carved into it.For eight years, community members have gathered to carve...

Halloween is approaching, and with it comes numerous spooky activities and events across Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.AshfieldThe Ashfield Police and Fire departments are organizing the town’s first trunk-or-treat, immediately after...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Brian McCue of Montague says that outside of weddings and funerals, the only way to get people together is to have a party. On Saturday, Oct. 19, what McCue considers to be the best party in western Massachusetts, the Wizard Costume Ball,...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

One of the most enduring symbols of Halloween is the black cat, and their associations with the supernatural date as far back as the Middle Ages in Europe. Satan, witches and bad luck have followed these felines into the modern Halloween...

By DOMENIC POLI

The North Quabbin region’s only Gilded Age mansion is on track to have a most festive October this year, with two murder mystery weekends and a festival to celebrate the season and all its aura.The Revival Wheeler Mansion has scheduled a...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Witches and wizards, angels and demons, superheroes and cartoon characters filled the downtown area on Tuesday evening for the city’s annual Halloween festivities.“It’s always so uplifting to see the streets filled with families and...

Editor’s note: Below is a sampling of events that are coming to Franklin County to help residents celebrate Halloween. Additional music-related events will be highlighted in Thursday’s Sounds Local column.Pine Hill Orchards collaborates with library...

By DOMENIC POLI

You’ve possibly known a haunted house to be held in a school or an armory. But how about one inside a 15,000-square-foot Gilded Age brick mansion built for a sewing machine millionaire’s wife and eventually owned by a Masonic sisterhood called the...

By MARY BYRNE

Five years ago to the day, a dozen radio contest winners and a team of ghost hunters packed up their sleeping bags and spent a night in the banquet hall of The Whately Inn on Chestnut Plain Road in Whately.Although owner Stephen “Chip” Kloc wasn’t...