Colrain News

Marshall E. Lamorie, 90, of Colrain, died Wednesday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.

At about 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, Steven Warnecke, 70, of East Catamount Hill Road went up the hill to trim some branches that had fallen on nearby trails during the winter's ice storm and then take a quick hike before supper.

In a time when many farmers are struggling just to remain afloat, a Westport dairy farm is making yet another move to ensure its future in bucolic South Westport.

Two juveniles were injured Monday afternoon when the all-terrain vehicle one was riding and dirt bike the other was riding collided, according to Colrain Police officer Scott Sullivan.

Two teens were seriously injured after their dirt bikes collided head on. The accident happened at on Kings Bluff Drive in Colrain, only a few miles northeast of Greenfield.

The town of Colrain in Franklin county was fertile ground for an alleged marijuana growing operation.

Jun 26, 2009 3:50 pm US/Eastern A 52-year-old Colrain man is accused of stashing 13 pounds of bagged marijuana and cash inside a clothes dryer.

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.

Samantha C. Wilhelm of Keene, N.H. and Sarah R. Batschelet of Neuenhof, Switzerland, stroll along the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls.

For the last 10 months Tasha Gilbert made the hour-long car ride from her home in Colrain to C.H. McCann Technical School in hopes of earning a certificate in medical assisting from the post-secondary program.

Gov. Deval Patrick has awarded four grants to help farmers across Massachusetts maintain energy-efficient buildings and build systems that generate energy from manure and organic waste.

Finally! In Griswoldville village in Colrain, our ... I'm talking about areas that have options.

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.

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.

When Kimberly Deane, 19, of Bernardston took her first ride on a horse at age 2½, I'm sure there was no thought that 17 years later she would win a prestigious national award ... of course, with a horse.

The following is the latest in a series exploring the ways Americans are improving the efficiency and reducing the footprint of their homes.

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com CHARLEMONT - Annual Town Meetings on dates spread throughout the month of May will determine whether the state's oldest regional school district dissolves into a larger district.

Does it get any better than this? The trout trucks are rolling, the turkeys gobbling, the forsythias and magnolias blossoming.

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.

After spending more than a decade managing a one-room library without running water or other amenities, Wendell Librarian Rosie Heidkamp imagined how a full-service library could transform this town of fewer than 1,000 residents.