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By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — An historic guideboard on the town common since 1837, helping travelers to navigate to Massachusetts communities both near and far, is temporarily absent from the green as a restoration project begins.Last Tuesday morning, the wooden...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — After a series of amendments and nearly three hours of discussion and debate, a new wetlands protection bylaw is in place in Shutesbury, adopted without a sentence that some interpreted as giving developers veto power over certain...

By JOHN WALTER

What is Imbolc? It is the day halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.If the winter solstice represents the death of the year, then Imbolc represents the birth of the new year.In our country we give fancy to groundhogs and their...

Open house planned for potential Senior Center SUNDERLAND — As the town continues to examine the former Sinauer Associates/Oxford University Press building as a potential South County Senior Center location, it has scheduled an open house on Saturday,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — With the long-awaited announcement of storm damage relief funding at the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s annual conference this past weekend, Deerfield and Conway, as well as 35 other communities around the state, are finding themselves...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

ERVING — Gateway Regional School District’s curriculum director, the principal at Athol Community Elementary School, and the director of assessment and accountability for the Westfield Public School District are the finalists to become the next...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A Special Town Meeting that includes a revised wetlands protection bylaw to replace one adopted in 1987 is being postponed to next week due to Tuesday’s snowstorm.The seven-article warrant, which also has various spending items, will be...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — The chair of the Conservation Commission has stepped down, a decision she said stems from alleged personal attacks and interference by elected and appointed officials at Town Hall.Miriam DeFant’s decision came just days before the Jan. 16...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A new wetlands protection bylaw to replace one first adopted 37 years ago is part of a seven-article warrant for a Special Town Meeting on Jan. 16.Before the meeting is held, though, the activist group Smart Solar Shutesbury is objecting...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With an eye toward increasing climate resilience and reducing public safety risk, preliminary design studies to examine the removal of three dams in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region are being backed by funding from the state Department of...

By SUSIE MOSHER

The article “Bill seeks to give terminally ill options” published in the Gazette on Oct. 23 gave a slanted report on the public hearing held at the State House on Oct. 20. From reading the article one would be led to believe opponents of the Medical...

Deerfield Academy fixing Frontier’s fields SOUTH DEERFIELD — With a one-person field crew at Frontier Regional School, Deerfield Academy is offering the school a hand — and equipment — to help prep the fields for winter and spring.Superintendent...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — The state attorney general’s office has rejected a revised town bylaw governing solar arrays adopted at a Special Town Meeting in January.The bylaw changes sets limits on where solar arrays can be located, requires special permits for...

While I am greatly appreciative of the Recorder’s coverage about the important issue of municipalities being able to zone for solar development, the paper got my position wrong in the Nov. 20 story “Advocates back solar power bill.” Given my work to...

Nov. 25: 40th annual Holiday Craft Fair SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Deerfield Police Association’s 40th annual Holiday Craft Fair will be held at Frontier Regional School on Saturday, Nov. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair will feature more than 65 local...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Being held just days before Thanksgiving, supporters of a new Shutesbury library are hoping that an inaugural road race will get the project closer to an additional $90,000 in private fundraising needed to move the project forward.With...

By SCOTT MERZBACHand DOMENIC POLI

A search is underway for a new superintendent to oversee Erving School Union 28, a district that includes four elementary schools serving preschool through sixth-grade students in Shutesbury, Leverett, Erving, Wendell and New Salem.With September’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Gasoline contamination at the Fire Station on Leverett Road, first discovered 15 years ago during a drainage ditch installation and seemingly remedied by a subsequent cleanup, has returned.The town recently received a letter from the...

Nov. 12: Photo essay, presentation on Deerfield’s transformation throughout its history SOUTH DEERFIELD — A panel of local historians will be presenting “And That’s the Way it Was,” a photo essay and audience discussion event where folks can learn...

Brick Church Music Series continues DEERFIELD — The First Church of Deerfield’s “Brick Church Music Series” continues on Sunday, Oct. 22, with organist Amanda Mole.Mole will perform at 3 p.m. at the First Church of Deerfield, 71 Old Main St. Mole has...