Plainfield News

After working all their lives on the hillside farm in Vermont that their grandfather bought in 1939, rising to milk cows at 3 a.m., even in blizzards and sub-zero temperatures, they decided to call it quits, auctioning off their roughly 200 cows and equipment ranging from stalls and hoof trimmers to tractors and steel pails.

Volunteers with the Adams forest wardens dig a handline around the site of a controlled burn that got out of control and started a brush fire on a property off Tilton Road in Savoy on Monday afternoon.

Topics on the future of Westford and 36 other Massachusetts towns and cities were released last week in the release of the 495/MetroWest Development Compact Plan.

Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray awarded $4 million in state grants to 138 communities for launching regional and other innovative programs including an initiative in Western Massachusetts to deal with juveniles who set fires.