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By BILL DANIELSON
In 1794, a Scot named Alexander Wilson arrived in the newly-independent nation of the United States of America and got to the business of starting a new life for himself. He had been employed as a weaver back home and thought he could make a go of it...
By DIANE BRONCACCIO
GILL — The joyful clamor of well-wishers that resounded throughout the Northfield Mount Hermon School graduation ceremony might well be the shouts “heard ’round the world.” With a grades 9-12 student body coming from 63 nations and 35 U.S. states, the...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — From 9 a.m. Saturday, when families began making their way to the Second Congregational Church’s front lawn, to the unveiling of Greenfield’s 12th bee sculpture, “Fearless,” outside the Greenfield Fire Department’s new station on Main...
By CARLA CHARTER
Laura Barletta and her husband Vincent’s connection to New Salem began with Vincent’s grandmother Helen Truman, who attended school at New Salem Academy. After the school closed in 1969, the building, which originally housed the home economics classes...
By CASSANDRA DUMAY
State activists and party organizers from across the political spectrum are determining how to address Massachusetts residents’ new top concern — immigration — going into the 2024 election cycle.Recent polling by GBH, CommonWealth Beacon and MassINC...
WHATELY – A fire at the Rainbow Motel at 64 State Road shortly after midnight early Saturday morning has left 17 people without a home, though all of the residents in the building evacuated without getting hurt. Whately Police officers were the first...
By ABNER ROJAS
GREENFIELD — At Stoneleigh-Burnham School’s inaugural Community Book Festival next weekend, organizers will be giving out free books to raise interest in reading and build a stronger connection between the school and the Greenfield...
Ethan Heuer struck out 10 in five innings of work, picking up the victory as the Athol baseball team took down Gardner, 14-6, in an independent contest on Friday.Logan Cormier belted a home run as part of a 2-for-2 day. Cormier scored four runs and...
Liam Kerivan tallied two inside-the-park home runs, a single and five RBIs and struck out 12 on the mound while Madden Coates knocked a single and drove in two in Pipione’s 13-5 win over St. Stan’s on Friday in a Newt Guilbault contest. Malcolm Tyler...
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE — Authorities are investigating an estimated $338,000 in fraud against the town, which has left Orange in dire financial straits and could result in the closure of its libraries, town officials discussed Thursday.The fraud involves the town...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — After more than four hours of discussion, the Zoning Board of Appeals voted to continue public hearings involving an Arch Street cannabis cultivation site’s request for a special permit to manufacture marijuana concentrate, as well as the...
By CHRIS LARABEE
CHARLEMONT — Following $1.5 million in investments to the Mohawk Trail State Forest Campground, the Department of Conservation and Recreation kicked off the 2024 camping season on Friday and welcomed folks back to the campground that had been closed...
Good morning!Today’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore was supposed to be easy pickings. Bob Baffert’s speed merchant Muth, named for his friend Aaron Muth, would jet around the oval at even money and Baffert would pocket his ninth...
By JOHN BOS
“Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. “After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide, all related to climate change, and after the fury of...
By CHRIS LARABEE
CHARLEMONT — The town’s newest attraction could begin welcoming people as soon as May 2025 after the Planning Board granted a special permit to Hinata Mountainside Resort off of Warfield Road.With drafted conditions laid out at the previous week’s...
BUCKLAND — In recognition of his social studies and civics instruction that aims to create better citizens and young advocates, Mohawk Trail Regional School eighth grade teacher Brennan Tierney has received the Massachusetts Council for the Social...
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — If you can’t make it to Comic-Con in San Diego toward the end of July, there’s a smaller-scale event in Franklin County that might scratch your artistic itch.The Western Massachusetts Comic Book Show is returning to Hawks & Reed...
By ABNER ROJAS
GREENFIELD — Whether it be wildfires or flooding, the effects of climate change can be felt across the country. Now, a new organization is asking what the people of Greenfield can do on the local level to be ready to combat those growing...
By DOMENIC POLI
The Boston Red Sox season will still be warming up by the end of this month, with about 110 games remaining before the playoffs. But outdoor sportsmen across Massachusetts will have already hung up their gear until around the time the World Series...
By STEVE PFARRER
Not long after 20 years of war finally ended in Vietnam in 1975, another wave of horrendous violence erupted just to the west.The Khmer Rouge, the Communist party of Cambodia, seized control of the country and began a brutal “reeducation” campaign...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — The bats came alive for the Greenfield softball team in the fourth inning against Easthampton on Thursday night. Trailing 1-0, Gloria McDonald smashed a home run to open the bottom of the fourth and tie the game. The Green Wave added a...
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