Buckland News

Eleanor 'Abbie' LaBelle, 78, lived in 'downtown' Shelburne Falls. She remembers playing kick-the-can or tag with other children in a vacant lot near her Conway Street home on summer evenings.

Celebrating Father's Day turned into a community wide event for one Franklin County Town Sunday.

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.

Franklin County Technical School's electrical students install the first of nine panels for a 2 kilowatt photovoltaic array that will track the sun, offset power requirements for the school's greenhouse, and provide a stream of data for students to study in the school's solar training program throughout each year.

Athol High School's Jeremy Buckland and Mohawk Trail Regional High School's Marissa Avery both qualified for the New England Track & Field Championships with their top-tier performances at the Massachusetts All-State Championships on Saturday in Fitchburg.

Wesley Horner had spent three decades in Boston and Washington, D.C., producing radio documentaries and performances with Billy Joel, the Boston Philharmonic, Lena Horne, Dave Brubeck, Jerry Lee Lewis and other notables before he landed in Franklin County six years ago and met some of Franklin County's farming families.

Phyllis Bray Joyce, 84, previously of Amherst, died Saturday, May 9, 2009, at Charlene Manor Extended Care Facility in Greenfield.

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com HAWLEY - A plan for the Hawlemont Regional School District to merge with the Mohawk Trail Regional School District has been thwarted by the town of Hawley, and it is unclear if it can be resurrected.

Jake Whiteman dominated again for Pioneer Valley Regional School as it defeated Greenfield High School, 75-70, in an Intercounty League boys' track and field double dual meet Thursday in Northfield.

Guidebooks repeatedly classify it as the nation's first scenic "auto route." While that may be a somewhat tarnished distinction at the end of the Age of Oil, there is no doubt about the scenic part.

How will communities thrive in times of global warming, falling oil production and a worldwide economic crisis? That's what roughly 50 West County residents discussed last week at the region's first ''Community Resilience'' meeting in Buckland's Town Hall.

Restored trolley car No. 10, originally built in Springfield, takes visitors on rides at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.. The centerpiece is the working, Springfield-built 1896 trolley car that takes visitors on short rides.

Mohawk Trail Regional School District is tabling talk of sharing a superintendent with Greenfield -- at least for the school year that begins in September.

Mohawk town officials to school Superintendent Michael Buoniconti: Look before you leap.

Artist: Gene and Susan Flores Medium: Sculpture - Wood Venue: Address: Event: 'Little House to Honor a Request for Poems' is a traveling writing hut.

When the Memorial Hall house lights dimmed Saturday afternoon, the movie screen filled with real-time images of the Metropolitan Opera audience filing into the theater in search of seats, thumbing through ...

Eight men picked up a hemlock beam weighing about 200 pounds, shuffled a few steps, hefted it above their heads.

Two of the three teenage boys who brought handguns into Mohawk Trail Regional High School last spring have pleaded guilty to various related charges and been sent away to a Department of Youth Services ...

Four-and-a-half-year-old Teresa Lee Hurlburt made a visit to the Greenfield branch of the Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society on Valentine's Day to deliver her Valentines to the cats.

About a dozen selectmen and Finance Committee members voiced their concerns about the proposed $17.9 million Mohawk Trail Regional School District budget this week.