Whately News

Holiday centerpieces of cut flowers and greenery are often a welcome hostess gift.

The town has received a $158,000 grant from the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, putting the purchase of 15 acres of land to protect Mount Ararat within reach.

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

On Oct. 1, while most of her peers were sitting in class back at home, 16-year-old Sarah Belder of Whately was making the rounds in the colossal show ring at the World Dairy Exposition in Madison, Wis.

Over the years, the small community library in Whately has been able to refresh its collection without spending any money because of the regional library system's bookmobile service.

Roger Lewis started the business in 1932. Tim Nourse, a salesman with the Farm Bureau, became a partner in 1969 and then bought out Lewis in the 1970s.

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WHATELY The recession may still be gripping the wallets of Wall Street, but in the fields surrounding Timothy Nourse s farm on River Road, there is no sign of it.

A strip search procedure previously used by the Franklin County jail has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, just as an earlier one was in Northampton two years ago.

James Rewa, 75, of 135 Conway Road, West Whately, died Wednesday in the Calvin Coolidge Rehabilitation Center in Northampton.

Mary A. Carey, 87, born June 4, 1922 in the home of her parents, James J. and Anna Carey of Whately, passed away at Holyoke Geriatric on Oct.

For nearly 50 years the hills of Conway have been coming alive with the annual Festival of the Hills, an annual fall festival that has been recognized as a Library of Congress "Local Legacy" in Western Massachusetts.

Police are investigating a rollover accident in Whately. The driver crawled out with only minor injuries but his car appears totaled.

When Tiffany Hilton began her new job as Whately librarian four months ago she faced a dilemma: The shelves of the town's S. White Dickinson Memorial Library had no music offerings.

Volunteers Lindsey Britt of Northampton, left, and Sierra McDonald of Whately stain siding for a storage barn Saturday at Grace House in Northampton.

By CORI URBAN WHATELY - Once upon a time, the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System had as much as $200,000 in its annual budget to buy books and other materials.

The Board of Selectmen of the three member-towns of the Frontier Senior Center agreed at a meeting Tuesday night to form a new body to oversee the center's finances.

A 23-year-old Brattleboro, Vt. man was arrested on charges of distributing marijuana after a state trooper found between 10 and 12 pounds of the drug stuffed in trash bags in his car.

An old-fashioned fireman's muster planned for Sept. 12 will highlight this month's celebrations of the town's 350th anniversary.

Consider the simple mung bean, a staple of Asian diets for 1,000 years or more. A new state-of-the-art bean sprout processing plant is being built at Chang Farm that will double the capacity of the 27-year-old commercial operation on River Road.