Ashfield News Archives

Robert Purinton, a native of Buckland, is on a mission. He wants a monument created to list names of all persons who served in the military from World War I on.

Two years ago, Sidehill Farm was gearing up to turn milk from its small herd of Normandy cows into the region's first homemade organic yogurt.

Good fences make good neighbors, poet Robert Frost wrote. But that was in the days before ''sustainable'' became a buzzword along with ''ecological'' -- concepts that are woven into alternative housing arrangements like Wisdom Way Solar Village, Salmon Falls Co-Housing Association and Katywil ''eco-village'' in Colrain.

Perhaps the only bad thing about having enormous talent is that it can be taken away, and too soon.