Blandford News

There is a chance for some light snow in western Hampden County and southern Berkshire County Thursday night.

As some severe budget cuts are in the forecast, the Gateway Regional School District is buckling down.

By MANON L. MIRABELLI BLANDFORD - The last of five public hearings on the fate of Gateway Regional School District's elementary schools was held Wednesday with parents pleading with the School Committee to not close Blandford's school.

Spending the day at the fair is a long-standing Labor Day Weekend tradition here in Western Massachusetts.

By JIM KINNEY jkinney@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - With most children already back in school, the Pioneer Valley Chapter of the American Automobile Association is predicting a slow Labor Day weekend on the roads, but attractions are hopeful people will be out and about.

One of the first questions faithful fairgoers often ask themselves when heading out to their favorite state or country fair is "I wonder what's new this year?" At the 142nd Blandford Fair this weekend - which stays true to its original mission of "encouraging and promoting agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, manufactures, mechanical and fine ...

In about the late 1600's, people came from the south, west and east to settle Berkshire County, which was incorporated in 1761.

A local bruin looks forlornly at the birdfeeders far from her reach in Joyce Harsch's back yard.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 290 on Wednesday, police said.

State police say a man walking along Interstate 290 in Northborough has been struck and killed by a passing tractor-trailer. The victim, identified by police as 49-year-old Albert Bairos of Shrewsbury, was walking eastbound on the highway when he was struck at about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Our stretch of warm dry weather has increased our fire danger. Brush fires in some of the hilltowns have been burning for days and have posed quite a challenge for fire fighters to reach.

Travelers along the Massachusetts Turnpike soon might spy something new on the horizon: a wind turbine.

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The wind turbines on Jiminy Peak and Brodie Mountain may soon have company in Western Massachusetts.

The owner of the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock installed this windmill last year at a cost of $3.9 million.

The Gateway Regional School District's Elementary Advisory Committee meets for the first time today at 9 a.m. A 14-member elementary education parent advisory committee will be working with the district's superintendent and elementary schools principals to give input on the process of consolidation or closing Blandford, Chester and R. H. Conwell ...

John L. Grossman, manager of the ReStore in Springfield, stands in front of lumber recovered from the deconstructed house at 8 Ardsley Road in Longmeadow.