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By BILL DANIELSON

In 1985, the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) was granted protected status under the Endangered Species Act. To make a very long story short, a species that had thrived along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada for hundreds of...

By BILL DANIELSON

A lifetime of learning about birds has given me a fairly respectable database of knowledge between my ears. Time is the real key to this sort of learning, but opportunity can be just as important. I live in the Temperate Zone well inland from the...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

Marty Tirrell was in Greenfield District Court earlier this month, aptly on Friday the 13th. He appeared before Judge William Mazanec III and pleaded not guilty to swindling a Red Sox fan out of $4,750 worth of tickets.A disgruntled Iowa acquaintance...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

One of the reasons that I love writing about food is that ideas can come from just about anyone or anything I encounter.Childhood memories have spurred me to make my mother’s favorite casserole and my grandfather’s favorite fudge. Neighbors, friends...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

Fifty-four years ago this month, on a cool, cloudy October afternoon in South Deerfield, Police Chief Jim Rosenthal got a phone call from Charlie Sadoski, the caretaker of the 100-year-old Mt. Sugarloaf Summit House. What he heard shocked him: A young...

By Jonathan Adolph

Even if you were never an avid summer camper, it’s easy to see the appeal of ESCAPE Camp, the weeklong overnight program for adults held at Amherst College in early June. Just the idea of living like a kid in your own college dorm room, eating what...

By PAT LEUCHTMAN

Ashfield resident Beverly Duncan has been overwhelmed with new ideas since her retirement from Mohawk Trail Regional School, something that is evidenced by the decorated walls of her studio.One wall is covered with framed botanical paintings. Other...

By PAT LEUCHTMAN

My new low-maintenance pollinator garden is full of fragrant flowers that bloom over the course of the season. Though I didn’t choose these flowers on purpose, I was pleased to find that so many fragrant plants have additional benefits — especially...

By BILL DANIELSON

I realize now that I got so swept up by the fact that I had set a new personal birding record for the month of November that I completely forgot I was in the middle of a series on sparrow identification. I was all set to culminate the series with the...

By BILL DANIELSON

September is that time of year when students in the United States go back to school. It is a predictable percussion point in the rhythm of American life, and it sets the tempo of many people’s lives for the following 10 months. As a teacher who...

By SHERYL HUNTER

When is Elvis coming back to Greenfield?    That’s a question I’ve heard more than once from readers of this column, and they aren’t referring to dead Elvis sightings in the area. Instead, they are wondering about Greenfield native Travis LeDoyt who...