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By DAVID McLELLAN

Even after decades of restoration, the first and only time Walter Pollard saw the red, 1904, surrey-seat Grout steam automobile drive, it only went 100 yards.But to Pollard, of Orange, the short trip’s meaning was boundless.There is relatively little...

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 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 DAVID McLELLAN

NEW SALEM — In 1938, four Massachusetts towns bustled with farmers and factory workers along the Swift River. However, in April of that year, Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott all would be disincorporated and drowned in the creation of the Quabbin...

By DAVID McLELLAN

GREENFIELD — Joshua Hart and Brittany Smith will spend their lives behind bars for murdering an elderly couple in Orange.Judge John Agostini gave each Hart, 25, and Smith, 29, both of Athol, two life sentences without the possibility of parole, to be...