Deerfield News

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association is in the process of providing a more complete picture of the layers of history in 18th-century Deerfield.

DEERFIELD - A former Franklin County resident and two Hampshire County residents were honored for their work and founding of organizations that have helped people better understand the federal budget and the economic inequality that exists in the country.

Danny Huston, left, as Jack Bennett and Mel Gibson as Thomas Craven in Warner Bros.

Their fields may be frozen, but winter is still a busy time for farmers, who use the break between last year's harvest and this year's sowing to order seeds, plot out their fields and otherwise prepare for the coming growing season.

Zdzislaw ''Chet'' W. Zajac, 90, of 31 Eastern Ave., died peacefully at home on Tuesday, Jan.

Deerfield Academy , an elite prep school in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, said it booked a $48.7 million drop in net assets in fiscal 2009 amid heavy losses within its investment portfolio.

It's one thing to savor locally grown Deerfield sweet corn in August and Whately peas in July, but what about in January? That's the vision behind a push to look at freezing locally grown vegetables and fruits in a pair of studies, in Greenfield and Deerfield.

Who was America's first architect? A new PBS documentary that airs Monday night claims it's Benjamin Latrobe, a British-born architect best known for designing the U.S. Capitol and White House porticos in Washington, D.C. But Timothy C. Neumann, executive director of the Pocomtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, believes America's real ...

DEERFIELD - Construction of a temporary bridge and roadway in the median of I-91 are at the centerpiece of a three-year, $35 million bridge replacement plan unveiled Wednesday night.

It's one thing to savor locally grown Deerfield sweet corn in August and Whately peas in July, but what about in January? That's the vision behind a push to look at freezing locally grown vegetables and fruits in a pair of studies, in Greenfield and Deerfield.

Police in several area towns, including Leverett and Deerfield, are looking for the burglars who were breaking into homes around Franklin County this week.

A commitment to reorganize and revitalize the Frontier Senior Center is at the forefront of its Board of Oversight's agenda.

Wanda F. Pielock, 94, of 271 Pine Nook Road, died Sunday morning in Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield after a period of failing health.

A week ago Friday, the 244 pupils at The Bement School in Deerfield, raised a little more than $7,000 for La Suiza Orphanage, with more than 100 children, in the Dominican Republic.

A layer of snow, a chill in the air, sunshine and a cloudless sky helped make the fourth annual ''A Special Day in Northfield'' exactly that.

Although there were many spinouts and a few vehicle crashes caused by the major winter storm that swept through the Pioneer Valley on Wednesday, very little damage was done by the storm.

Ice on an Interstate 91 bridge was to blame for two crashes that forced state police to close its northbound lanes to traffic for nearly an hour Thursday morning.

The region's first winter storm surprised those cleaning it up this morning, dumping twice as much snow as predicted and at a rate of about 1 to 2 inches an hour.

First the good news: from pennies to big checks, residents across the Valley pitched in some $70,000 for the Sydney F. Smith Toy Fund in 2008.

Alice C. Jekanowski, 93, formerly of Sunderland, died on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.