Leverett News

At Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society ita s raining kittens and more kittens! Faith is one of more than three dozen adorable little felines awaiting new homes between our adoption centers in Springfield and Leverett.

Choose your own path to school regionalization, or we'll choose it for you. That was the message from the state over the past couple of years, and it was enough to keep small Hampshire County schools scrambling.

Working from his Wendell Depot Road shop, David Scott has built sundials for a doctor in Puerto Rico, the Leverett Coop and one for downtown Orange.

Next year's closing of Mark's Meadow School, foreground, with the University of Massachusetts campus in the background, means Amherst schools must reorganize their student populations.

Voters cast an eye toward the future at a special Town Meeting Tuesday night, approving an energy-saving initiative and the installation of a new water well near the town's 20-year-old landfill on Cemetery Road.

A Chicopee woman who was lost in the woods near East Chestnut Hill Road Monday night was retrieved with the help of several police and fire agencies, including a new multi-town search and rescue group out on its first live mission.

When I tell people I live in Royalston, they tend to stare blankly. "Boylston?," they say.

The creation of a regional elementary school district makes little financial sense for the towns of Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury, according to a new report.

The creation of a regional school district makes little financial sense for the towns of Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury, according to a report issued by the panel charged with studying the matter.

Fourth graders at Leverett Elementary in Fayetteville took a special lap around their school to honor the life of their classmate, Olivia Ray.

Vintage Green, the developer of a high-efficiency home in Leverett, are hoping the added lure of a high-efficiency Volkswagen will draw interest in a down real estate market, the Republican reports.

When firefighters got to the scene to extinguish the large bonfire in the back yard, party-goers were disrespectful toward them, as well.

Name: Annie Breed: Jack Russell mix Age: Seven years Sex: Spayed Female Color: White & Black Date of Surrender: 8/8/09 Annie has been with Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society for six long weeks.

Staff at the University of Massachusetts helped students on campus cope with the death Sept.

A person was killed by an train in Leverett at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. He's the third person to be struck by the Amtrak Vermonter in a three mile stretch of track in less than two years.

Authorities have identified Friday a man that was killed when an Amtrak passenger train struck him Thursday just north of the Amherst line as a 19-year-old University of Massachusetts at Amherst student from France.

A University of Massachusetts student was killed Saturday night when he was struck by an unidentified vehicle as he was bicycling on Montague Road, police said.

Staff at the University of Massachusetts are helping students on campus cope with the death Thursday of a UMass student, who died when he was struck by a train in Leverett early that afternoon.

Amtrak is investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a train in Leverett.

A man struck and killed by a train in western Massachusetts has been identified as a University of Massachusetts student from France.