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By SHERYL HUNTER

After a limited opening last year, the Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse, held at the Wendell Town Hall, is ready to return to a full schedule. Briezyjane and the Hurricane will kick off the 2024/2025 season in fine style on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7:30...

DCR to close New England Trail Bridge for six weeks WENDELL — Beginning Oct. 11 and continuing through Nov. 22, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation is closing the New England Trail Bridge over Mormon Hollow Brook at Wendell State...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Trying to please a cynical restaurant critic might seem like a daunting task. But how about 1,200 growing young people? That’s the daily reality for Katrina Bressani, the new food service director for the Ralph C. Mahar Regional and Union 73...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

WENDELL — The treasure hunter who found the Project Skydrop treasure has been revealed.Dan Leonard, a meteorologist from Boston, has come forward as the previously anonymous treasure hunter who found the 24-karat gold statue in the Wendell State...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

WENDELL — The treasure has been found.Eleven days after the hunt began for a 4-inch-tall, 24-karat gold statue, an anonymous treasure hunter has claimed the Project Skydrop prize hidden deep in the Wendell State Forest.Those watching the live treasure...

Hi everybody! Long time no talk to! It’s not that I don’t care, or haven’t been listening, it’s just that I’ve been, well, preoccupied.Since we are all shareholders, stakeholders if you will, in this great company of ours (yes, company, even I don’t...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Donna Horn had hoped to donate to the Town Offices the head of the paper mache dragon she rode as part of the Misfit Prom in June. Though a lack of a fire-retardant coating made this impossible, you still have a chance to see the 4-foot-tall...

Longtime drummer honoredORANGE — The Orange Community Band ended its summer concert season by honoring longtime drummer Marty Picard with a memory book of photos and a drummer shadowbox created by bandmate Jerry Hageman. Picard, 93, joined the band in...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — With the start of the academic year, Ralph C. Mahar Regional School will offer paid internships that certify students to work in the wastewater industry.Elizabeth Zielinski, entering her fifth year as superintendent of the Ralph C. Mahar...

The current plan by New Leaf Energy corporation to clear-cut and then erect a large standalone lithium battery storage facility in Wendell has been temporarily deflected. Corporations flaunting themselves as proponents of “green” technology are...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — New Leaf Energy has nixed the controversial battery storage facility it had proposed for 68 Wendell Depot Road, and members of a local citizens’ committee formed in opposition to the project are ready to celebrate.No Assault & Batteries...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Continued staffing challenges for small-town fire departments that depend on on-call and volunteer firefighters to respond to emergencies is prompting officials in Shutesbury, Leverett, Wendell and New Salem to examine ways to potentially...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

WENDELL — With its annual meeting on Sunday, the Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse will “celebrate a year of great events and community contributions,” in the words of Friends board member Debbie Lynangale.The free event will be held at 2 p.m. at...

By DOMENIC POLI

What are Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and his helpers supposed to do when they can’t find a cobbler shop at the North Pole?Apparently, they contact a clown shoe maker in rural Massachusetts.Gary Amiro has been hand-crafting footwear for professional...

By JONATHAN VON RANSON

 To me, it oversimplifies history to simply fault Gov. Tim Walz for allowing three days of violent protest in Minneapolis before calling in the National Guard.One can never condone violence or looting, but the Black anger expressed in the rioting came...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — A Lowell-based developer of renewable energy and energy storage projects has pulled the plug on a controversial facility proposed for 68 Wendell Depot Road, citing changes in the interconnection process and the state Legislature’s failure to...

By LAUREL FACEY

After three years of listening to an energy project developer from Delaware tell the citizens of Wendell how they have “reached out to a wide range of stakeholders and neighbors” in our town, we have decided to reach out to the developer and ask them...

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — The trustees of New Salem Academy have become a local partner of a program that singer-songwriter Dolly Parton started in 1995 to provide children with books regardless of their family’s income.Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails...

July 26: ‘Heroes and Villains’ concertORANGE — The Orange Community Band will perform its “Heroes and Villains” show on the bandstand in Butterfield Park on Friday, July 26, as part of the townwide “Return to Hogwarts” celebration. The 7 p.m. concert...

July 28: Pioneer Valley Brass Quintet concertNEW SALEM — The Pioneer Valley Brass Quintet has scheduled a free concert for Sunday, July 28, at 2 p.m. at the Swift River Valley Historical Society, located at 40 Elm St. The concert is sponsored by the...