Colrain News

SPRINGFIELD - Electricity has been restored to the more than 1,500 Western Massachusetts Electric Co.

Residents returning for a second round of annual town meeting last week approved all the zoning revisions requested by the town Planning Board.

The Deerfield River Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited is hosting its first project of the year -- a cleanup of the North River in Colrain, Mass., which suffered significant damage from Tropical Storm Irene.

SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass. - A lifelong singer, the Rev. Paul Bombardier was driving to a music recital rehearsal about two years ago, "when I decided it was my turn," he says, of a revelation that would change his life.

Artist John S. Smith VIII sometimes changes reality with his paintings. Working from photographs he has taken, he exercises his artistic license to add or eliminate details to enhance his work.