Montague News

No doubt about it, Sunderland's 1867 Old Town Hall makes a fantastic location for a restaurant, Blue Heron, that is, about a stone's throw from one of the largest American sycamore tree east of the Mississippi River.

The Don Campbell Band with its blend of adult contemporary, country and rock music is returning to the stage at the Turners Falls High School Auditorium in Montague for a "Country Christmas" on Sunday.

That's the plan, as the former Montague farmer returns to town with the purchase of a 109-acre Meadow Road farm this summer and hopes of adding the 13-acre Blue Meadow Farm property this winter.

A group of Turners Falls High School students wants to make sure children don't have to go without a birthday cake just because their parents can't afford to buy them one.

Despite that rutting moon burning bright in clear, cold skies this week, it's been slow going on the Pioneer Valley archery-deer-harvest front.

About 600 doses of the swine flu vaccine that recently arrived in Franklin County will be used to vaccinate the area's most vulnerable students.

It may be a haul, but it's worth trucking over to the Montague Bookmill in Montague, Mass for some incredible music in a very intimate space.

Two years ago, Beth Cronk of Montague was part of Rays of Hope -- A Walk Toward the Cure of Breast Cancer -- in Springfield.

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.

A 42 year-old Chicopee woman is safe after losing her way in the woods of Franklin County Monday night.

Greenfield and Gill-Montague Regional School District are talking about combining special education programs that serve students ages 18 to 22 and are looking at housing the consolidated program in Turners Falls.

Four Masonic lodges in Franklin County and one in Athol will hold open houses on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to District Deputy Grand Master John White of the 26th Masonic District, the lodges will be observing Square and Compass Day, which is an opportunity to learn abut the work of Masons and their charitable efforts, along with some ...

Stanley J. Kuznik, 85, of Leyden, formerly of Greenfield, died Thursday at home.

Stella J. Margola, 92, of 10 Congress St., died Friday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.

Last winter, when heating oil prices were going through the roof, Ted Armen and his wife, Alice, put a solar-electric system on theirs, delighted that the payback for the photovoltaics was speeding up.

Carol A. Lapointe, 60, of 13 Bridge St., died Monday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.

It was truly a Polish Centennial extravaganza today as parishioners at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church in Turners Falls celebrated the church's 100th anniversary.

It's always fun tracking down something historic. Mark Fairbrother of Montague sent me this e-mail. ''Recently at the Turners Falls Airport, at the site of a building dating from the 1930s and 1940s, I picked up a clear glass milk bottle that had 'Turners Falls Dairy' molded into the side and a large 'T' at the bottom,'' he wrote.

A Sunderland resident still remains at Baystate Medical Center in fair condition after she and a friend were hit by a car on Amherst Road Tuesday, said Sunderland Police Chief Jeffrey Gilbert.

Two women were struck by a pickup while crossing Route 116 in front of the Squire Village Shopping Plaza around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.