Shelburne Falls News

Honey bees, you may heard, are dying off in large numbers. Environmental scientists are trying to get to the bottom of this, and while they're doing that a western Massachusetts playwright has turned the subject matter into theatre.

Buckland and Shelburne town officials met Tuesday with production managers who will be shooting local scenes next week for "Labor Day," a movie starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin.

The first time John F. Sendelbach - who wants to be know as "Johnnybach" - showed his copper geodesic garden ornaments at an arts festival, he sold hardly anything.

Gasoline prices are moderating a bit, but they're still high enough - about $3.71 a gallon - to keep would-be travelers close to home this Memorial Day weekend.

The blockbuster news of the summer is that a blockbuster movie will be filmed in the village.