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By DOMENIC POLI

If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood … it could have a perfectly mundane explanation.A peculiar scratching on a roof might be interpreted as a haunting spirit yearning to be left alone in their home, and an increase in electromagnetic...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The heart of the high school football season is upon us.After each area team played its three independent games, league play kicks off this Friday. In the Intercounty North, Athol travels to Turners to take on Franklin Tech, Greenfield...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival has earned the reputation as a place to find garlic in unexpected places, like chocolate chip cookies and ice cream. But Greenfield resident Chris Weeks made sure to save room for 25 cloves …...

By DOMENIC POLI

The North Quabbin region’s only Gilded Age mansion is on track to have a most festive October this year, with two murder mystery weekends and a festival to celebrate the season and all its aura.The Revival Wheeler Mansion has scheduled a...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Vampires beware — it’s time once again for the North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival.What started as a conversation about finding a new way to sell local products has blossomed into a beloved community tradition fondly known as “the festival...

Orange Senior Citizens Club to hold annual installationORANGE – The Orange Senior Citizens Club plans to hold its annual installation of officers meeting at the Orange Senior Center at noon on Thursday.There will be a pizza party promptly at noon...

By DOMENIC POLI

The Boston Red Sox season will still be warming up by the end of this month, with about 110 games remaining before the playoffs. But outdoor sportsmen across Massachusetts will have already hung up their gear until around the time the World Series...

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — Residents can expect to see volunteers on the street collecting donations in pickle jars and to hear the 12-hour North Quabbin Food-A-Thon on the air to help combat a growing need.The fundraiser and food collection drive, now in its 20th year,...

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ORANGE — Florence Bickford, 101, has received the Boston Post Cane for being the oldest resident in town.Orange Selectboard Chairman Tom Smith recently presented her with the cane and a certificate of recognition. The cane is awarded to the oldest...

ATHOL33 Benwoods Drive, $110,000. B: Robert S. Smith and Colleen G. Smith. S: Benwoods LLC.59 Benwoods Drive, $110,000. B: Robert S. Smith and Colleen G. Smith. S: Benwoods LLC.111 Brickyard Rd Lot C1, $150,000. B: Horizon TCo. S: Bredesen Susan C Est...

GREENFIELD — Josiah Cheeseboro, 24, of Springfield, was arraigned in Franklin County Superior Court on Thursday on several drug-related felony charges, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.Cheeseboro’s arrest at his Springfield...

Mahar holds homecomingORANGE — Homecoming weekend was held at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School from Oct. 5 to Oct. 7.The weekend’s first event was a program held in the Kermit Cook Auditorium on Oct. 5, when the Homecoming Royalty was introduced by...

By DOMENIC POLI

The North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and organizers knew just what to get you for the occasion: half-price admission that’s good for the whole weekend.To celebrate two-and-a-half decades of community support,...

1794 Meetinghouse to present The Jolly Beggars, Jenny BurtisNEW SALEM — The 1794 Meetinghouse plans to present The Jolly Beggars on Aug. 25 and Jenny Burtis on Aug. 26.The Jolly Beggars, based in Connecticut, specialize in lively, uplifting Celtic...

Wendell FreeLibrary to hostpresentation on wealthy Erving merchantWENDELL – The Wendell Historical Society and the Wendell Free Library plan to present Erving researcher, lecturer, author and historian Sara Campbell, who on Thursday, Aug. 24...

By DEB HABIB

The North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival turns 25 on Sept. 30 – Oct 1. The all-volunteer committee, 100 exhibitors, and over 50 performers and presenters are excited to welcome you! We thought we’d offer some fun behind the scenes history and...

By DOMENIC POLI

You’ve possibly known a haunted house to be held in a school or an armory. But how about one inside a 15,000-square-foot Gilded Age brick mansion built for a sewing machine millionaire’s wife and eventually owned by a Masonic sisterhood called the...

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 JOSHUA SOLOMON

PETERSHAM — The widespread word in the regional recovery community about the substance abuse intensive treatment center at the Quabbin Retreat is last month it “abruptly closed,” but the manager of it, Heywood Healthcare, says the program is merely in...

By DOMENIC POLI

When North Quabbin residents get frustrated with the Statehouse politicians and bureaucrats in Boston, sometimes they hint that they’ll shut off the water.But these people aren’t plumbers. They’re alluding to the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest inland...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Fans of the novelist Stephen King, especially those living in Orange, may soon have a conversation starter about their hometown.Hulu, a subscription video-on-demand service, has picked Orange as a filming location for an upcoming...