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By DIANE BRONCACCIO

In 1981, glass artist Josh Simpson threw a few teaspoons of cobalt, copper, silver and zinc into a crucible of molten glass, and came out with an explosion of swirling reds, blues and greens that closely resembled a NASA photograph of the Crab Nebula,...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School Principal Chris Buckland delivered pithy but sensible advice to the 26 graduating seniors and their loved ones who packed the auditorium on Saturday.“Replace the word ‘but’ with ‘and,’” Buckland said. “See which...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

SHELBURNE — As far as anyone can remember, the 365-acre Davenport Farm has had dairy cows in the Patten Hill district.The rolling hills had cows when the first Davenports bought the property in 1913, says Maegen (Davenport) Senser, who was raised on...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

ASHFIELD — After 14 years of research, Thomas Leue created and patented an oil burner that runs on unfiltered, used cooking oil and has about 98 percent less climate impact than burners using conventional heating oil, he says.And now the U.S....

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

GREENFIELD – A photographer best known for his photographs of nude adolescents was arraigned Friday in Greenfield District Court on charges of statutory rape of a 14-year-old Northfield Mount Hermon School student about 40 years ago, when he worked...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

ROWE — Although it happened 24 years ago, Leonard Laffond clearly remembers when the Yankee Rowe nuclear power plant announced it was closing for good.“That was the fateful day,” he said, finding a copy of the Feb. 27, 1992 Recorder, with its headline...