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By DOMENIC POLI

Data shows that sales of soft drinks and alcoholic beverages are up as people take to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a lot of empty bottles and cans laying around and consumers looking for a place to bring them.Starting June 5,...

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — It’s the end of one era and the start of another at the New Salem General Store, which is set to have new owners Monday.Natalie and Jeffrey Reynolds are slated to take over from Rick and Lori Oliver, who about a quarter-century ago...

By ZACK DeLUCA

GILL — Northfield Mount Hermon School is being sued for more than $2 million in a case alleging sexual abuse of a minor female by a female teacher between 1999 and 2001, according to a complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court.Received by the court...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Shortly before he was deployed to Vietnam to serve his country, Army 1st Lt. Bernard James Lovett Jr. had a nice dinner at the house of fellow Greenfield Junior High School teacher Courtney Woodcock and his wife.The three broke bread and...

By MARY BYRNE

NORTH ADAMS — The Hoosac Tunnel reopened to trains on Saturday after a two-month closure for repairs.The tunnel closed to traffic on Feb. 12 after a “partial wall collapse,” according to Cynthia Scarano, executive vice president of Pan Am Railways, a...

By ANDY CASTILLO

GREENFIELD — Nishon Morgan, the “his” behind the recently opened His and Hers Comics store, has always enjoyed comic books. “There were always comic books in the house,” Morgan said Thursday, a day after his Bank Row store — which he owns with his...

By DOMENIC POLI

ATHOL — Quabbin Valley Healthcare is now in its third month of new ownership.Scott Wheeler and several partners from Blupoint Healthcare purchased the facility at 821 Daniel Shays Highway from Cambridge Healthcare Group on Jan. 1. Wheeler said except...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — Ashley Arthur was not a chef when she opened the Five Eyed Fox on Third Street in 2014.She had been in the restaurant business since she was 14, and had done nearly every job. But the closest she had been to a chef, she said, was a...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Orange man facing 18 charges related to inappropriate sexual behavior is being held without bail at the Franklin County House of Correction.Donald Grenier, 80, has pleaded not guilty to nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a...

By PAUL FRANZ

GREENFIELD — It would seem the Terrazza restaurant at the Country Club of Greenfield was just the beginning of Abaz Cecunjanin’s venture into Greenfield’s hospitality industry.Cecunjanin opened a new cocktail bar on Jan. 19 called The Balkan Lounge at...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — Providing a 24/7 ride service, American Knight Transportation owner and operator Richard Haste prides himself on being focused on the community and his customers — hence his business’ tagline “where the professionals drive and customers...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — The Barn Grocery Store, at 95 River St., announced its closure Tuesday.“After 20 years, The Barn will be closing at the end of this month,” a post on the grocery store’s Facebook page reads. “We are selling off inventory at 50 percent...

By ANITA FRITZ

BUCKLAND — An email sent by Superintendent Michael Buoniconti to all staff members at the Hawlemont and Mohawk Trail regional school districts explaining his recent relationship with a member of that staff, as well as his impending divorce, is being...

By ANITA FRITZ

When David Shea was 5 years old, he was placed in foster care. He spent the next seven years bouncing around from home to home, and remembers some Christmases when he watched the family he was staying with open presents — with none to open himself.“I...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — Mayhew Tools has been in Franklin County since it first opened in 1856, and is now expanding with the purchase of a Florida company called Bestway Tools.The sale was coordinated largely by John Lawless, who co-owns the company with his...

By DAVID McLELLAN

SPRINGFIELD — A Deerfield businessman and stonemason is being sued by a former employee for allegedly underpaying for years. Wednesday was the first day of the federal court trial of Sonam Rinchen Lama, a Tibetan immigrant and master stonemason who...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — As one of very few motorcycle shops that can work on almost any bike regardless of its make, model or year, Nova Motorcycles draws customers from throughout New England, and sometimes from as far away as New York City.“If it’s got two...

By DAVID McLELLAN

GREENFIELD — The New Hampshire man who stabbed Massachusetts State Police Trooper Mark Whitcomb last year was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison on Friday, after changing his plea to guilty.Nghia Le, 19, of Manchester, N.H., pleaded guilty to eight...

By ANITA FRITZ

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a week-long series about the state of farming in Franklin County.Sixty-five-year-old David Duprey has been a dairy farmer almost his entire life. It’s the life he has built, the life he knows, and the life he’s not...

By ANITA FRITZ

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a week-long series about the state of farming in Franklin County.Drive along many of the major routes and back roads of Franklin County and you’re bound to run into a farm stand or ice cream/food stand.Many of the...