Greenfield News

Bates College senior Catherine Elliott, left, contradances with Adam Heintz of Greenfield, Mass., and many others at Chase Hall on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston on Friday night during the second annual Bates College Community Folk Festival.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- It isn't often noticed because the state line serves as a great divide, but art has been creeping up the Connecticut River Valley.

The school department is feeling the pinch from a federal program that mandates it pay for the transportation costs of homeless students either in or out of district.

When the annual Grammy music awards are televised Sunday, a third man with local ties will be in the audience, with or without his own musical recognition already secured.

Authorities say a man has died after crashing a snowmobile in the Franklin County town of Warwick.

The Turners Falls hockey team scored a big victory Monday, beating Greenfield 3-1 at Collins-Moylan Rink in Greenfield.

Franklin County's sheriff thinks the "Vermont state prison system coddled" the inmates who trashed their cell block in a July riot at the county jail.

SEED SAVERS Dan Botkin of Laughing Dog Farm in Gill gives a workshop on seed saving during the Winter Fare Market at the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield on Saturday.

The staff of the city's wastewater treatment plant was recently selected by the federal Environmental Protection Agency for a 2011 Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Excellence Award.

When it comes to the energy-efficient future of Greenfield High School, the plans are still in the works.

A Selectmen Barry Greenfield and Jill Sullivan said the town needs action on its own to get state officials' attention when it comes to education funding.

A New Hampshire pilot has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a Massachusetts plane crash that killed his 35-year-old daughter.

Steven T. Fay of Hillsborough, N.H., 57, leaves the courtroom in Franklin Superior Court in Greenfield, Mass.

Hundreds of people in Franklin County are now looking for a new place to work out.

With a U.S. District Court ruling weeks behind them and a few weeks still remaining before Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant's new 20-year operating license takes effect, activists who want the plant shut are recruiting supporters for what they say will be actions that may include acts of civil disobedience.

There will once again be a police officer keeping an eye on Greenfield schools, and this time a bloodhound will accompany him.

U.S. Rep. James McGovern, left, at the 8th Annual Hot Chocolate Run in December in Northampton.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- It isn't often noticed because the state line serves as a great divide, but art has been creeping up the Connecticut River Valley.

The size of a municipal parking garage proposed for Olive Street has been reduced from four to three stories and from just under 300 spaces to just under 200, because the mayor and town's economic development director say the town doesn't have enough money to build a bigger one.

The Greenfield, Mass. Wastewater Treatment Plant was recently selected by EPA for a 2011 Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Excellence Award.