Mark H. Snow, center, owner of Snowzee's, with his sons Aaron Snow, left, and Mark A. Snow Wednesday in Sunderland.

The first paper white opened Dec. 23 and the other nine bulbs were in full bloom a week later.

Frederick "Fred" Michael Shaw, 72, of Southpoint Drive in Amherst and a former longtime resident of Northampton, died on Tuesday, Jan.

As we head into the long, cold winter stretch the networks are doing their part to keep us all entertained while we sit, bundled up, on our sofas watching their winter season offerings.

Amherst Survival Center volunteer Reid Duffy, of Sunderland, sweeps the floor at the center.

There's a simple rule for detectives in an arson investigation: Get to the scene fast.

A commitment to reorganize and revitalize the Frontier Senior Center is at the forefront of its Board of Oversight's agenda.

Easthampton resident Julie Chandler gives to the Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund in honor of a brother who died in a car crash in the 1970s, but also, she said, because of the years she received help from the fund.

State police report some patches of black ice Monday morning and urge motorists to take it slow, especially in Hampshire and Franklin counties.

Wildcat O'Halloran is back in business, and while he is operating under the same name that first captured Valley hearts and souls some 25 years ago, his eponymous band has reinvented itself with a mixture of old and young blood.

Santa's public relations people have certainly booked him up solid for the next several weeks, judging from the number of restaurant appearances they've scheduled him to make.

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.

Sales expectations were low, at least according to one retail group, but shoppers still mobbed the Hampshire Mall in the wee hours of what's come to be known as Black Friday.

First the good news: from pennies to big checks, residents across the Valley pitched in some $70,000 for the Sydney F. Smith Toy Fund in 2008.

Alice C. Jekanowski, 93, formerly of Sunderland, died on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.

A Franklin County community is stepping up to help out fellow residents who lost everything after a fire ripped through their apartment building.

Sugarbush Meadows, the 150-unit apartment complex proposed for Plumtree Road and Route 116, might not be built after all.

Kenneth W. Duda, 65, of 317 Montague Road, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009.

Thomas Glen Hollingsworth, of South Deerfield, Mass., age 79, died October 23, 2009 at the Cozy Corner Nursing Home in Sunderland, Massachusetts.

A U.S. Magistrate ruled Thursday that a strip search policy at the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction in Greenfield is unconstitutional.