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By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — Peggy Warwick was on a walk one day in her neighboring town when she came across a peculiar looking plant featuring triangular leaves, curved thorns and saucer-shaped leaves on the stem.Soon enough, Warwick, a member of Shelburne’s Open...

Ashfield Rod and Gun Club hosting archery shoot, pig roast PLAINFIELD — The Ashfield Rod and Gun Club, located at 161 North St. in Plainfield, will host a pop-up archery shoot and pig roast on Saturday, July 27.The archery shoot begins at 11 a.m. and...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

BUCKLAND — For the eighth year, several Buckland organizations are joining forces to put on the “Summer Day on the Buckland Common” event.The free event will be held on Saturday, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Buckland Common is located at 17...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 There are few things that baby boomers like better than nostalgia. That is why a full house was on hand the other night at Tanglewood to listen to an extraordinarily peppy John Fogerty run through his catalog of hits backed by two of his sons.And...

Sanderson Academy seeks after-school enrichment leaders ASHFIELD — Sanderson Academy is looking for after-school enrichment leaders for the 2024-2025 school year.Visit tinyurl.com/SandersonEnrichment to fill out a survey to share what it is you are...

The Civil War was the cultural midpoint in our history. Everything about slavery since the founding foreshadowed it. Everything subsequently seems to refer back to the unfulfilled promises of reconstruction. In early 1861 Lincoln delivered his first...

Seventh GradeHigh Honors: Maya Baunsgard, Kayden Berry, Harper Briggs, Teagan Donahue, Oliver Ferris, Isabella Filiault, Zavel Gardner, Armando Gonzalez, Ava LaCross, Wyeth Miller, Abigail Osterman, Lydia Pinkham, Ryah Pizzi, Cole Raffa, Benjamin...

By SAM FERLAND

BUCKLAND — The Mary Lyon Foundation plans to build or renovate a resource center in western Franklin County within the next five years to help meet residents’ needs.“We’re looking to build a center that would be an intergenerational center where it...

History Society program to detail murder of Civil War vet COLRAIN — “Murder on Catamount” will be the topic of a program following this month’s meeting of the Colrain Historical Society at the Stacy Barn, 8 Main Road, on Thursday, June 13.Prentice...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — Incumbent Selectboard Chair Clinton “Clint” Phillips fended off a challenge from Planning Board member Maria-Elena Mariel Olcoz in Tuesday’s town election, as he was reelected to his seat, 313-59.The Selectboard race was the only contested...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — A woman was taken to Cooley Dickinson Hospital Wednesday afternoon following a single-vehicle rollover crash on Route 112 near Purinton Road.Shelburne Police Department Sgt. Kurt Gilmore said the driver, a woman in her 60s, suffered what...

Goodnow earns Deane Jones Memorial Scholarship Mohawk Trail Regional School student Sophia Goodnow of Shelburne received this year’s $1,000 Deane Jones Memorial Scholarship.This award is given through Trinity Church to a graduating high school student...

By VIRGINIA RAY

BUCKLAND — Following a request for proposals, the Selectboard has chosen Jay Heilman and Jake Orzechowski of JPH Building, a custom residential home design/contracting firm, to buy the former police station on Conway Street. “We’re very excited in...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — After a successful implementation in the middle school, Mohawk Trail Regional School is expanding its “Off and Away, All Day!” pilot program to the high school to curb student cellphone use and introduce a consistent policy across the...

By DOMENIC POLI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Kenneth Butler knew that when he departed for Bradley International Airport on Friday morning it was the final time he would be in his native western Massachusetts until he is laid to rest next to his parents in Greenfield.The...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BUCKLAND — Thirty-seven graduation caps flew through the air Friday evening at Mohawk Trail Regional School’s Class of 2024 graduation ceremony. Addressing her classmates, Valedictorian Kaylin Sumner recounted the trials, tribulations and joyful...

By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — When voters head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll be faced with one contested race as incumbent Selectboard Chair Clinton “Clint” Phillips faces a challenge from Maria-Elena Mariel Olcoz, who currently serves on the Planning Board, for a...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

BUCKLAND — Cynthia Schwartz was only 4 years old when the first Buckland Recreation Area swimming pool opened in 1963, but she remembers a town parade and the hoopla surrounding Buster Crabbe, an Olympic gold-medal swimmer and “Flash Gordon” film star...

BUCKLAND — Leanne Blaszak, a seventh grade English language arts teacher at Mohawk Trail Regional School, offered students in her classes the opportunity to become published authors.But there was a requirement. Each story could only be 100 words...

Seventh Grade High Honors: Maya Baunsgard, Kayden Berry, Harper Briggs, Joshua Cerone, Teagan Donahue, Oliver Ferris, Zavel Gardner, Armando Gonzalez, Ava LaCross, Abigail Osterman, Ryah Pizzi, Kaylin Sevoian, Madelynn Weller, Ryleigh Westort, Anna...