Cummington News

Calls have gone out from across the nation. Traps have been set around the area.

CHARLEMONT The proof of the pudding may be in the eating, but on Saturday, it was in Charlemont.

A new matching grant program will give residents in the hilltowns a chance to help their neighbors in need this winter.

Along the Berkshire trail, better known as U.S. Route 9, between Cummington and Goshen Center, is a small barn just west of the George D. Judd and Sons Property of 'Goshen Stone' fame.

The movement has been afoot for a few years to eliminate having purchases packed into paper or plastic bags.

Today is the first annual Fall Food Preservation Day in Massachusetts. Several communities are offering workshops on how to preserve locally grown food for the winter months.

My guess is that they don't come much younger. Last May, at the Cummington Fairgrounds, the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair was celebrating its 35th year, as visitors walked among the displays, vendors and animal pens, thoroughly enjoying the renewal of one of the world's oldest industries.

My guess is that they don't come much younger. Last May, at the Cummington Fairgrounds, the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair was celebrating its 35th year, as visitors walked among the displays, vendors and animal pens, thoroughly enjoying the renewal of one of the world's oldest industries.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Berkshire County until 3:30p.m. The National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm with the potential to produce wind gusts to 40 mph and small hail.

Perhaps it is the nature of pottery that has helped the primitive craft adapt to the lifestyles of modern day.

Above, a view of the Cummington Congregational Church steeple the day after last December's ice storm struck.

Fans of famed poet, journalist and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post William Cullen Bryant will gather at Bryant's boyhood home and adult summer residence in Cummington on Saturday for a day filled with poetry, speech and a variety of family-friendly activities.

The Hampshire County 4-H Fair will be held on Saturday, July 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Cummington Fairgrounds.

A property bought for $35,000 in 2003 could turn into a buildable lot with a multimillion-dollar view of Saquatucket Harbor.

Brian Tedder photo -- Pioneer Valley Performing Arts graduate Aiden L. Talbot, of Cummington, looks at his mortarboard before commencement ceremonies Thursday evening at the Calvin Theater in Northampton.

Students, teachers and volunteers from Taconic High School will release 300 salmon fingerlings into the Westfield River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, at 3 p.m., Friday at the Cummington Plaza on Route 9 in Cummington.

The Cummington Fairgrounds played host on Saturday to the 3rd annual Hilltown Spring Festival.

Voters at Wednesday night's annual town meeting approved 32 of 33 articles, including a measure that would allow the town to remove snow and make necessary temporary repairs to South Shore Road, a privately owned, one-mile gravel roadway along Plunkett Lake.

Voters will consider 33 articles at Wednesday's annual town meeting including a proposal to amend the transportation agreement for the seven member towns of the Central Berkshire Regional School District.

Grace and Brody Calvert, 7 and 4, of Windsor place lilacs on the gravesites of veterans at Hilltop Cemetery in Plainfield as part of the town's Memorial Day observance Monday.