Mill River News

The annual town meeting has initially endorsed four capital expenses totaling $898,000, subject to final approval at next week's town election.

Amherst's Elizabeth Sharpe, author of "In the Shadow of the Dam," will be at Gaylord Library in South Hadley on Wednesday.

One month after more than 1,000 gallons of oil leaked out of an underground tank at a Wakefield concrete company, state officials say no oil has leaked into the nearby Mill River, private wells, or utility tunnels in the area.

A Wakefield concrete company is in the process of cleaning more than 1,000 gallons of oil out of ground soil and testing the area's water supply and rivers after one of the company's underground tanks gave out last week.

A female black bear and three cubs pass next to a house at 27 Ward Avenue, Northampton, Tuesday on their way back to a wooded area along the Mill River.