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It was a blustery November morning on Wil Kiendzior and Louisa Sapienza's windswept hilltop, but in their unheated sunroom, it was early spring -- nippy but not cold enough to damage the emerald-green chard, ...

George Elias McLaughlin, 91, of Greenfield, died at home on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008.

The Reverend John Hall Snow, 84, of Ashfield died Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at his home, surrounded by his family.

A third town in the eight-town Mohawk Trail Regional School District is calling on the school board not to raise the town's assessment for next school year.

Unofficial results of the general election held in Massachusetts on Nov. 4, 2008.

Richard L. Sprague, 81, of Ashfield, died Tuesday at home. Services will be private at the convenience of the family.

Nellie Foster, 93, longtime resident of Conway and later Northampton, went peacefully home to God, surrounded by her family, on Monday, Nov.

Although school budget planning is just beginning, a second town with the Mohawk Trail Regional School District is asking school officials for a ''zero percent'' assessment increase, given tough economic times.

There was a flurry of state and local police activity at the Westfield Sportsman Club, a day after eight-year-old Christopher Bizilj was killed there.

When several county towns collectively bought their winter oil supply last June, they thought they were protecting themselves against ever rising prices.

As much as fall colors, it's the green attracting international tourists to Franklin County this weekend -- greenbacks, that is.

Kids who dive into the pool at YMCA's Camp Apex have good reason to be thankful for the sun.

What better time to wet your line than under clear, cool skies backdropped by brilliant colors reflected on a glassy water surface? So get out there for the annual fall trout-stocking that got under way this ...

Franklin County is a fertile source of pick-your-own apple orchards. Like the rest of the apple orchards in Massachusetts, at the heart of the orchard is a family.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer visited the Eastern States Exposition Saturday, delivering checks totaling more than $1.6 million to help a pair of southern New England businesses.

With the help of a $43,000 rural development grant, the oldest tree farm in Massachusetts will be tapping into solar photovoltaic technology that could cut its electricity costs by 80 percent.

Following two well-attended Saturday morning ''conversation cafes'' on issues of aging and a winter heating forum, the Shelburne Falls Senior Center is hosting a two-day ''Summit on Aging'' this Friday and ...

It will be 14 years ago this Dec. 22 that 28-year-old photo journalist Cynthia Elbaum of Ashfield, a 1989 graduate of Smith College in Northampton, was killed covering a Russian Federation air raid on the ...

Seniors filed through their senior center Tuesday afternoon, filling bags with fresh apples, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes and other produce grown on local farms.

''The Illustrious Return of Don Quixote'' is enacted on the grounds of the former dairy farm that's been Double Edge's headquarters since 1994.