Charlemont News

A Massachusetts teen who was making a food delivery when his car struck a pair of motorcyclists, killing one, has avoided jail.

After years of discussing how to make the Deerfield River a safer place for boaters, fishermen, kayakers, and river-tubing, several initiatives have been put into place to reduce vehicular traffic, promote river safety and civility among river-users.

A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for July 24. * Michael A. Schnopps, 21, of Mohawk Forest Boulevard in North Adams, was arraigned on a charge of failure to return leased personalty.

Dateline Shelburne Falls: The transformation of the village from a place in western Massachusetts to a town in southern Indiana for the filming of the movie, "The Judge," has been interesting to watch from a distance.

Bomb squad and hazardous materials workers spent the better part of a day dealing with a cache of chemicals found in a Charlemont attic.

Since he'd grown up in western Connecticut, spending lots of time enjoying the wooded outdoors, Robert Lingle wasn't worried after developing a rash, feeling flushed and running a fever a year or so after moving to Charlemont several years ago.

Twenty-one members of the Class of 2013 - all of whom are going on to college - received their diplomas at an afternoon ceremony at the school on the Mohawk Trail.

Like thousands of others across the country, Lindsay Smith graduated from college this spring.

This solid built home has all the room you've been looking for w/spacious interior and perfect floor plan.

For the 10th year in a row, Zoar Outdoor, in Charlemont, Massachusetts, will host a three-day whitewater demo event.

Its history goes farther back than wheeled travel. The trail began thousands of years ago as a migratory game path, and then became a footpath for American Indian peoples.

Annual town meeting voters unanimously approved a one-year moratorium for siting any medical marijuana treatment centers in town, to give town boards more time to study changing state regulations and consider potential impacts on the town.

WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 434 PM EDT SUN MAY 26 2013 ...AREAS OF FROST LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING... .AN ANOMALOUS COOL AIRMASS OVER THE REGION TONIGHT WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF FROST ACROSS NORTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS INTO SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Mohawk sophomore Holly Mae Brown, a local pop-country singer from Charlemont, is heading for Boston on June 22, for a live, call-back audition for the television show "The Voice." The NBC singing competition/reality show seeks to find aspiring new talent, age 15 and over, through public auditions.

With new state regulations on medical marijuana set to take effect today, some towns have been looking to control or prevent treatment centers from siting in parts of their communities, or anywhere in town.

For roughly 40 years, Memorial Day weekend has marked the start of a summer season of Intertribal Powwows at the Indian Plaza, at 1475 Mohawk Trail.

In a career that spans 14 years, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from western Massachusetts has released eight full-length albums, three EPs and performed an average of 200 shows a year.