Buckland News

It was a blustery November morning on Wil Kiendzior and Louisa Sapienza's windswept hilltop, but in their unheated sunroom, it was early spring -- nippy but not cold enough to damage the emerald-green chard, ...

Students of the Mohawk Trail Regional School are organizing a craft fair to raise money for The Recorder's Warm The Children annual clothing drive.

Nellie Foster, 93, longtime resident of Conway and later Northampton, went peacefully home to God, surrounded by her family, on Monday, Nov.

Yes, it's that time of the year again ... calendars to help worthy causes. One of the most beautiful, hands down, is the calendar of the Buckland Historical Society, which again highlights the paintings of the ...

The stenciled message: ''Keep it clean: Drains to river'' may soon be painted on storm drains in Shelburne -- the handiwork of a group of 18 enthusiastic students who are enrolled in a new climate-change ...

Thanks to the state's new voting machines for the disabled, handicapped residents throughout Massachusetts can enjoy privacy when they go to the polls on Nov.

Neil D. Halberg, 56, died Thursday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.

The number of Franklin County schools needing improvement under No Child Left Behind has more than doubled this year, but state officials say the jump is not unusual in the state nor a surprise because the ...

Before it became the ''Bridge of Flowers,'' the old Trolley Bridge, built in 1908 for the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway Co., carried high school students, adult passengers, cotton products from ...

Visitors to the bridge of flowers in Shelburne Falls walk across the former trolley bridge during another birthday celebration in 1999.

Following two well-attended Saturday morning ''conversation cafes'' on issues of aging and a winter heating forum, the Shelburne Falls Senior Center is hosting a two-day ''Summit on Aging'' this Friday and ...

No Snivilin' Farm has hundreds of chickens, goats, sheep, donkeys and llamas, as well as big plans for neighborhood wood-fired power plants.

Even before the 'Best of Show' ribbon was affixed to Jo Williams' hand-knitted, queen-size bedspread at the Franklin County Fair, a few workers in the Roundhouse were oohhing and aahhing over the workmanship.

By PATRICK JOHNSON pjohnson@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Members of the state's Winter Energy Costs Task Force convened today for the first of five statewide meetings.

While temperatures hovered in the low 80s, people of all ages packed the Shelburne Senior Center Wednesday afternoon to talk about winter and how to take care of those who may not have enough heat or enough ...

In the late 1970s, Michael McCusker, a recent University of Massachusetts graduate, bought the Odd Fellows Building and took the audacious step of converting a vacant market storefront into a deli and natural ...

Thunderstorms that ripped through the area Sunday afternoon left fallen trees and wires across Franklin County and kept firefighters and the electric company busy.

Virginia Woolf praised 'a room of one's own' as a place to nurture creativity, but what about a public 'room of one's own,' a place where you go for a little while to read the private poem-thoughts of others ...

Virginia Woolf praised ''a room of one's own'' as a place to nurture creativity, but what about a public ''room of one's own,'' a place where you go for a little while to read the private poem-thoughts of ...

Will it save money, or is it just a boondoggle being touted by the state? Some Western Massachusetts cities and towns question whether the option to have municipal employees receive health insurance through the ...