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Heath woodworker awarded $25K fellowship
11-08-2024 9:54 AM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HEATH— Local woodworker Charles Thompson has been awarded The Society of Arts and Crafts 2024 John D. Mineck Fellowship, a $25,000 award for early career furniture designers. Thompson describes himself as a self-taught woodworker, who picked up the...

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Greenfield couple welcomes Baystate Franklin’s first baby of 2025; Heywood’s first baby of year born to Millers Falls resident
01-03-2025 6:47 PM

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — It’s been a week full of surprises for the family who welcomed Baystate Franklin Medical Center’s first baby of 2025.Agnes Coakley Cox and Nate Cox, both 38, arrived at the hospital on Dec. 31, as Coakley Cox prepared to be induced into...


Study to examine tourism’s impact on public safety resources
11-17-2024 1:10 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Does tourism strain public safety resources in small towns? The Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts wants to know.With help from the Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the...


Oglala Lakota Nation receives headdresses taken to Barre in ceremony
11-13-2024 3:26 PM

By GREG VINE

BARRE — Just over two years ago, on Nov. 5, 2022, Barre’s Woods Memorial Library returned more than 130 items to the Oglala Lakota Nation that were connected to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre that killed nearly 300 Native Americans.It was thought at...


Closer than Mumbai: Inaugural Bollywood film series comes to Greenfield Garden Cinemas, every second Monday
10-25-2024 10:13 AM

By AMALIA WOMPA

Vidhi Salla, a radio host, author and journalist whose focus is on Indian cultural arts, is pioneering the introduction of Bollywood to New England theaters.Salla grew up in Mumbai and studied literature before moving to southern Vermont in 2018 to...


Leisure Woods Estates sues Orange Mobile Rent Control Board over ‘eviscerated’ budget
10-24-2024 6:47 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Leisure Woods Estates mobile home park is suing the town’s Mobile Rent Control Board, claiming the monthly lot fee increases approved last month were inadequate in relation to heightened expenses.John Kuzinevich, the attorney representing...


Orange board approves Leisure Woods rent increase
09-25-2024 4:36 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents of the Leisure Woods Estates mobile home park seem satisfied with the increased monthly lot fees approved by the Mobile Rent Control Board on Tuesday, saying the forthcoming new figures are fair to them and the park’s owners.The...


Ceremony held to rename athletic fields behind Greenfield High School to “Donna Woodcock Field”
09-20-2024 7:48 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The athletic fields behind Greenfield High School officially have a new name. The Greenfield City Council voted on August 21 to rename the athletic fields behind Greenfield High School to “Donna Woodcock Field” and on Friday, the...


Seeking invoices, Orange Mobile Rent Control Board continues hearing on Leisure Woods rent hike
08-15-2024 6:07 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — A decision on whether Leisure Woods Estates can raise its monthly lot fees by 43% was delayed for a second time Wednesday night, as the Mobile Rent Control Board requested the company’s invoices from this year and last, in an effort to ensure...


Orange board seeks Leisure Woods budget details before deciding on proposed 43% fee hike
07-17-2024 4:29 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE — A decision on whether Leisure Woods Estates can raise its monthly lot fees by 43% will wait until at least August, as the Mobile Rent Control Board requested additional budget information.Leisure Woods Estates Inc. is petitioning the board to...


New website serves as forest stewardship resource
07-13-2024 9:11 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

ROWE — A new website geared toward those looking to get involved with forest stewardship was recently unveiled during the annual meeting of the Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts.Woodlands Partnership members saw a need for interested...


Owners of Leisure Woods Estates mobile home park in Orange propose 43% rent hike, riling residents
07-03-2024 5:59 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The owners of Leisure Woods Estates have proposed raising monthly lot fees by 43% and residents of the town’s only rent-controlled mobile home park worry about the financial strain it could put on them.Glenn Gidley, the principal owner of...


For all the bragging rights (and one trophy): The winners of this year’s Valley Voices story slams head to a final competition
04-05-2024 1:47 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

The assignment is pretty straightforward: tell a concise story about your life, in no more than five minutes, that reflects a certain theme.The challenge is in telling that story with enough heart, spirit, verve, humor or whatever else you can conjure...


How and why does wood burn? A basic scientific explanation to help you better heat your home, build the best fire
04-01-2024 3:00 PM

By STEVE THOMAS

A significant number of people in this area burn wood to heat their homes, including a number of new arrivals who may have much interest in doing so, but little experience. Accordingly, I thought it would be worthwhile to write about this subject as...


Wendell Wood Bank uses $10K grant for equipment, storage shed
03-25-2024 1:12 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The Wendell Wood Bank spent a $10,000 federal grant on safety equipment, chainsaws, log splitters, a storage shed and other items to help meet the heating needs of households struggling to keep warm.Clifford Dornbusch, Wendell’s tree warden...


Buckland wood bank seeks volunteers for April 20 event
03-23-2024 3:01 PM

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

BUCKLAND — Despite all the trees felled by storms or cut down for utility access, about 13,000 rural households in Massachusetts still experience “energy insecurity,” according to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). But a fairly...


Wendell native Scott Woodward excited to be back in New England as Middlesex School’s new head football coach
03-15-2024 3:32 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Scott Woodward is making his return to Massachusetts. The Wendell native and Mahar Regional School alum won a pair of MIAA Division 3 state football titles before attending UMass, where he played four years of football with the Minutemen at...


Crafted at home for the home: Josh Hannon creates wooden household goods that are both functional and beautiful
03-04-2024 3:25 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Western Massachusetts is home to some of the world’s finest artisans and craft fairs. We can admire gorgeous objects made of wood, glass, wool, clay, flax, stone, wax, and other materials, and this happy circumstance allows us to shop locally....


For the love of coffee: Woodnote Coffee Company prioritizes the land and the folks living on it
01-22-2024 4:18 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Co-owners Kaihla Laurent, 25, and Jaydon Diamond, 27, chose the image of a bird for their Woodnote Coffee Company logo; a woodnote is a natural musical sound or song, like that of a wild bird. The allusion seems fitting, as the young company recently...


Colrain debuts new wood bank
12-04-2023 12:14 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

COLRAIN — The town has a new wood bank providing a system of wood sharing for local residents. The wood bank is located outside the transfer station on Charlemont Road. It is open for anyone to give and take wood as needed.“This is a mutual aid...


Business reps seek state help in shoring up local timber industry
11-17-2023 5:45 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE — With many multi-generational family farms harvesting timber but only 2% of the wood harvested being used in the local economy, Massachusetts has a long way to go to bolster the timber industry, according to local business representatives...

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