Charlemont News

Taxpayers are spending billions to shore up old bridges across the Commonwealth, but only one restoration merits a square-dancing celebration on its deck.

Marshall E. Lamorie, 90, of Colrain, died Wednesday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.

A number of fireworks displays will be held in area towns to celebrate Independence Day.

Mohawk Trail Concerts will present "In Praise of Purcell," selections from the work of the celebrated 17th Century English composer Henry Purcell, Friday and Saturay, July 10 and 11, at the Federated Church in Charlemont.

Celebrating Father's Day turned into a community wide event for one Franklin County Town Sunday.

Elizabeth ''Betty'' Pike, 95, of Charlemont, died Friday at the Buckley HealthCare Center in Greenfield.

While fishing in the Deerfiels River in Charlemont, MA I caught this beauty on a nightcrawler.

Hawlemont and Mohawk Trail regional school districts apparently won't be merging in time for this coming school year.

This is the kind of thing people usually like to keep secret, but we thought you'd like to know that on June 6, 15-year-old Emma Bradford is going to run away to join the circus.

A local landmark in Franklin County is back open this weekend. The historic Bissell Covered Bridge in the town of Charlemont looks as good as new thanks to a three million dollar renovation that took two years to complete.

The Bissell Bridge, in Charlemont, seen prior to $3 million work of renovations, has reopened to traffic.

An enduring icon of rural New England in Charlemont has reopened to vehicle traffic.

The town has something special in store for this year's Memorial Day parade as fire apparatus from 20 different departments will be featured in a parade beginning at 3:30 p.m. Fire Chief Lawrence Ordyna has sought help from fire agencies in Adams, Ashfield, Charlemont, Cheshire, Chesterfield, Clarksburg, Colrain, Cummington, Florida, Hawley, ...

Marie Stella, a landscape historian and lecturer at Harvard University's Landscape Institute, spent a long year trying to find the ''right house'' when she decided to move full-time to a ''greener'' home than the 19th-century one she's had for 30 years.

There's something about facing death that seems to draw people to the face of a mountain.

Eco-tourism is huge in vacation spots and the tropics. But now you can add Charlemont, Massachusetts to that list.

Long before Interstate 91 tore its way through farms, homes and downtowns along the banks of the Connecticut River, providing a multi-lane ribbon of auto traffic between New Haven and northern Vermont, there were thousands of miles of rail, both steam and electric, knitting communities and industry together.

Penny Spearance's journey to become an elementary school principal started not in a classroom or a school, but in the playroom of her family's home in Tom's River, N.J. Some time in June, that journey will come to an end when Spearance retires as principal of Sunderland Elementary School and, in so doing, brings an end to a 30-year career spent as ...

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com CHARLEMONT - Annual Town Meetings on dates spread throughout the month of May will determine whether the state's oldest regional school district dissolves into a larger district.

Carl M. Ladd said he's looking forward to coming to the Gill-Montague Regional School District to be a part of the community, to tackle the challenges facing the district, and to work to expand the district's strengths.