Greenfield News

In 2004 Mariamante Academy moved to Virginia, leaving the county without a Catholic high school.

It's that time of year -- the downtown is being decorated for the holidays and Greenfield residents and their neighbors will have the opportunity to come ''Home for the Holidays'' the weekend of Dec.

Dr. Helen Elizabeth Ellis, 81, of Bernardston and South Yarmouth, Ma., died Thursday at home.

During her 13 years at NESEA -- Northeast Sustainable Energy Association -- Sandra Thomas gained a reputation as a dynamo connecting people and groups and spreading the word about lasting solutions to energy ...

This year more people than ever will be unable to afford heat and electricity, according to anti-poverty agency Community Action.

A Shelburne man was arrested Tuesday night after ramming his car into the side of The Barn food outlet store on River Street.

Gimme a break its the same crap they sell at Wilso... "You can get the same cheap plastic crap at local ... Why do people think that the stuff sold at a big b... Great! Now I dont have to send my kids to ...

Now that voters decriminalized personal use of marijuana in the Nov. 4 election, fines for such use will go into local government coffers.

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com HADLEY - Fire officials have identified the victim in Sunday's fatal fire at the Norwottuck Inn as 54-year-old Susan M. Nevin whose last known address was in Greenfield.

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com GREENFIELD - The Greenfield Redevelopment Authority Monday night voted unanimously to set up a committee to look at the feasibility of establishing a district heating ...

It's Friday and it's calendar day. This week, it's the calendar with historic railroad scenes from Franklin County, with railroad history researched and provided by Alden Dreyer of Shelburne and photographs and ...

Organizers of a proposed community-owned department store downtown have scaled back their ambitions.

Students of the Mohawk Trail Regional School are organizing a craft fair to raise money for The Recorder's Warm The Children annual clothing drive.

The story Natalie Demers told was about listening. In a small, closed room, the 34-year-old woman told her friend and colleague, Holly Mott, about growing up as a white South African during apartheid -- and how ...

E. Russell Alexander, 87, of Greenfield died Thursday in Greenfield. Born on May 20, 1921, he was the son of Ernest R. and Marie Alexander and was a lifetime resident.

The mayor has committed another $11,500 to downtown building upper-floor redevelopment, which will be used to do a detailed financial analysis of the dozen buildings involved, as well as create a financial plan ...

George Elias McLaughlin, 91, of Greenfield, died at home on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008.

A Massachusetts Department of Correction employee has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 in state money to purchase semiautomatic firearms and other law enforcement equipment for personal use.

A local man has been arraigned on narcotics trafficking charges following arrest by a regional drug task force.

It may hardly raise eyebrows to think of cows being milked at the Davenport Farm.