Shelburne Falls News

It was a night of art, gleeful banter and wishful thinking as artist Laurie Goddard showed her work at BlueStone Gallery's first opening on Friday night in Milford.

When life hands you lemons, make lemon squares, Paul Abbey might have advised his culinary arts students at Franklin County Technical School, where he taught for 30 years.

The roar of two fighter jets pierced the air over Shelburne Falls and Buckland as hundreds of proud, flag-waving Americans celebrated Independence Day Saturday with a parade of floats, vehicles and marchers.

A Celebration of Life for Janet A. Sheldon, 80, of Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, who died Dec.

Reginald Richard of Fitchburg, left, waves to a passing freight train as Karl Ferret of Northampton, center, and Lew Wilson of Gardener play Tennessee Central #9, an old train song, on the mandolin and guitar at The Station in the Energy Park on Friday.

A dreary June has made for soggy sales for some local businesses. Many shops in Shelburne Falls rely on tourists to buy up their goods and eat at their restaurants, but the rain has kept some away.

Eleanor 'Abbie' LaBelle, 78, lived in 'downtown' Shelburne Falls. She remembers playing kick-the-can or tag with other children in a vacant lot near her Conway Street home on summer evenings.

Samantha C. Wilhelm of Keene, N.H. and Sarah R. Batschelet of Neuenhof, Switzerland, stroll along the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls.

Robert Purinton, a native of Buckland, is on a mission. He wants a monument created to list names of all persons who served in the military from World War I on.

Pothole Pictures continues its Summer series of classic films on Friday and Saturday June 19 and 20 with screenings of the Billy Wilder directed comedy "The Seven Year Itch." Marilyn Monroe, in one of her sweetest, sexiest roles, stars as the blonde beauty who moves in upstairs from middle-aged Tom Ewell, whose family is away for the summer, ...

Elizabeth ''Betty'' Pike, 95, of Charlemont, died Friday at the Buckley HealthCare Center in Greenfield.

Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center is sponsoring a talk with Tony Walker entitled "How Contemplation Can Help Us Make Decisions," on Friday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. Sakyong Mipham, the head of Shambhala International, has said, "Mastering our life begins with the ability to see how we block the way to our own contentment." In this evening talk, ...

Franklin County Technical School's electrical students install the first of nine panels for a 2 kilowatt photovoltaic array that will track the sun, offset power requirements for the school's greenhouse, and provide a stream of data for students to study in the school's solar training program throughout each year.

By CAROLINE PEPEK cpepek@repub.com Huck Finn certainly wasn't concerned with the conservation of the Mississippi River.

Good fences make good neighbors, poet Robert Frost wrote. But that was in the days before ''sustainable'' became a buzzword along with ''ecological'' -- concepts that are woven into alternative housing arrangements like Wisdom Way Solar Village, Salmon Falls Co-Housing Association and Katywil ''eco-village'' in Colrain.

Hundreds of family, friends, and fellow state troopers packed a South Deerfield church to say goodbye to Dennis Eugin.

A State Trooper was killed just before 4 a.m. today on South Westfield Street in Agawam.

Annual events like Fiber Twist and Cider Days are among those helped by advertising paid for by state grants, which could be cut by one-third, or eliminated entirely if a Senate Ways and Means proposal is carried out as a way of dealing with the state's deepening fiscal crisis.

This is a 2:57 p.m. update of a story originally posted at 7:02 this morning. By PAMELA METAXAS pmetaxas@repub.com AGAWAM - Off-duty State Trooper Dennis M. Eugin, 40, was identified Friday afternoon as the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident in Feeding Hills.

When the history of dramatically lit photographs of quirky 19th-century American inventions is finally written, February 9, 1945 will have its own chapter.