Heath News

Share + Jul 8, 2009 8:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Peg Rusconi "My Trevor is a darling 10-year-old boy who has complex medical special needs from being born premature," said Karen Zablonski, whose son has cerebral palsy and is legally blind and requires round the clock care.

By KEN ROSS kross@repub.com HADLEY - Flipping through a book of photographs, Leverett resident Robert A. MacDonald sounded like a proud parent as he displayed photos of his 1932 John Deere GP tractor.

When Cheshire's Mike Balawender and Adams' Gary Alibozek decided to join the Hilltown Biodiesel Cooperative, they knew they would be growing sunflower seeds to make biodiesel fuel for their farm equipment, and would be able to use the byproducts as grain for their animals -- they had no idea they would be commended for it by the United State Postal ...

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com HAWLEY - A plan for the Hawlemont Regional School District to merge with the Mohawk Trail Regional School District has been thwarted by the town of Hawley, and it is unclear if it can be resurrected.

The colorful and inclusive official Massachusetts getaway guide is now available, and it offers really intensive coverage of all the attractions and important points that make our state so historically and naturally attractive.

Massachusetts' maple syrup producers say December's ice storm is ensuring a not-so-sweet sugaring season that will drive up retail prices.

The storm is over, but many residents and towns still have a lot of work to do. Charlemont is outfitting big construction vehicles with plows.

Barack Obama's presidential inauguration will include an invocation by evangelical minister Rick Warren and featured a prayer at Sunday's 'We Are Open' concert by openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, ...

In the early 1990s, the Mohawk Trail Regional School District went from a regional secondary education district to a kindergarten through grade 12 district when Ashfield, Buckland, Shelburne, Heath and Colrain ...

There are two things for which the Heath Union Evangelical Church is famous: the Serenity Prayer and the oldest William A. Johnson pipe organ in existence.

Many hotels and restaurants throughout Franklin County were inundated with people seeking refuge from their homes this weekend after they lost electricity, heat and water in Thursday's ice storm.

By 1:30 p.m. Friday, Windswept Valley Farm's Mark Scranton was desperate for help in milking his dairy farm's 28 cows.