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By CHRIS LARABEE
CHARLEMONT — With the property at 133 Warfield Road officially in hand, work is now underway on the Hinata Retreat.Jen and Jeff Neilsen closed on the 473-acre property on Oct. 29. They plan to revitalize the Warfield House Inn and construct 30,...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SUNDERLAND — With the thud of a potato cannon’s ammo striking a target next to the cornfield, the secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development got a first-hand taste of the types of experiences Franklin County can...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — The Franklin County Agricultural Society has received a $75,000 grant from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism to complete its $250,000 walkway repaving project, aimed at making the grounds more accessible to disabled...
By CHRIS LARABEE
CHARLEMONT — A vote on the special permit application for Hinata Mountainside Resort could come as soon as next week, as the Planning Board and applicants ironed out conditions on the permit Thursday evening.If approved, the Planning Board would give...
By DOMENIC POLI
Looking to increase her department’s presence around the state, the executive director of the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism recently visited some of Franklin County’s tourism destinations.Kate Fox was taken on a whirlwind tour around the...
By CHRIS LARABEE
CHARLEMONT — Deliberations on the conditions and potential approval of a proposed mountainside resort will come at the Planning Board’s next meeting, as the applicant laid out potential solutions to residents’ concerns about traffic on Thursday.Jeff...
By DOMENIC POLI
CHARLEMONT — About 20 people crammed into a room at Town Hall on Tuesday for the first public hearing about an Agawam couple’s plans to buy the Warfield House Inn and convert the site into a mountainside resort.Jeffrey and Jennifer Neilsen hope to buy...
By BELLA LEVAVI
When Brolin Winning owned Smokey Bro’s BBQ on the Mohawk Trail several years ago, tons of tourists who stopped at his Shelburne establishment for a bite to eat had the same question for him.“Every single weekend, people would ask us if there was a...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
Tourism contributes more than $1 billion in annual economic impact across Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin counties, according to a recent study released by the Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau.The study was the first of its kind...
By SAM DRYSDALE
BOSTON — Last month’s Boston Tea Party anniversary celebration was “just the tip of the iceberg” as Massachusetts prepares to leverage a series of upcoming historical anniversaries to market the state and draw in millions of tourists, the state’s top...
By DOMENIC POLI
Local businesses are reportedly holding their own this tourist season, even if the typical autumn foliage happens to fall short.October is often the lifeblood for area shops and restaurants, and proprietors say customers are still flocking through the...
By BELLA LEVAVI
Tourism spending finally rebounded from the pandemic in 2022, according to the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, with Franklin County seeing $79 million of the total $24.2 billion that was injected into the state economy.By comparison, in...
By DOMENIC POLI
At least 8.8 million Americans reported Polish heritage to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2021. And members of this community who visit their ancestral homeland will find themselves in a nearly 125,000-square-foot nation separated from neighboring Slovakia...
By BELLA LEVAVI
SHELBURNE — When Brolin Winning worked outside smoking meat at Smokey Bro’s BBQ on the Mohawk Trail, he would often stare up the hill at the abandoned Anchorage Nursing Home and think, “I can do something really cool with that place.”Now, five years...
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE — Roughly 20 acres at 300 Daniel Shays Highway is expected to be the site of a campground again soon, as husband and wife Michael and Chrystal Snow prepare Quabbin Pines RV Resort for business. The Snows purchased the property, formerly the...
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