Chester News

Of all the historic houses in Berkshire County, the only one in which I feel the presence of non-ghostly inhabitants is the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio in Lenox.

The list released by the Patrick administration Monday of 71 construction projects across Massachusetts that will rely on civilian flaggers: DISTRICT 1 - LANESBOROUGH-PITTSFIELD: Resurfacing on a Section of Route 8. - CHESTER-HUNTINGTON: Resurfacing on a Section of Route 20.

Photo by Manon Mirabelli -- From left, Dawn S. Hoppe, 18, of Huntington; Ashley B. Parady, 17, of Russell; Natasha A. Downie, 17, of Russell; Karina E. Piispanen, 17, of Chester; Elyse A. Pommenville, 17, of Worthington, and Hilary P. Anderson, 17, of Russell.

State education officials say nearly three-quarters of the people who took the state elementary school teacher's licensing exam this year failed the new math section.

By ALEX PESHKOV apeshkov@repub.com WESTFIELD - Hill Harper, an actor and classmate of Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, urged 1,280 Westfield State College graduates Saturday to follow their own path and be open to where their interests might take them.

As white nose syndrome, the devastating illness that is killing hundreds of thousands of bats marches its way across the country, officials are trying to ensure humans aren't inadvertently spreading it.

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 ...

A controlled brush fire got out of hand Friday afternoon and sparked a forest fire in a swath of woods north of Center Pond, forcing more than 100 firefighters from 10 towns to battle the blaze for 10 hours.

Josh Schwartzbach and wife Adrienne Metcalf, own E.J.A. Magical Journeya s in Chester, Ma.

By ALEX PESHKOV apeshkov@repub.com HUNTINGTON - The Gateway Regional School District is looking for parents to give input on the process of consolidation or closing Blandford, Chester and R. H. Conwell elementary schools.

I've always been stunned by the outpouring of emails, phone calls and letters I get when I write about stranded dolphins, entangled whales and other cute and charismatic creatures.

When wildlife researchers last month went into the upper part of a vertical cave in the Hampden County town of Chester, where just 4i3 41 2 weeks earlier they'd found 1,013 hibernating bats, only 116 were left.

Chesterwood, the Stockbridge home of Lincoln Memorial sculpter Daniel Chester French, hasn't been as visible or as popular as some of the county's other cultural attractions the last few years.

A 40-year-old Chester man died Saturday morning from burns suffered in a mysterious car fire Friday night, police said.

A Chester man died early Saturday morning after suffering burns in a car fire in Becket.

A nighttime drug raid on the city's West Side shut down a large-scale cocaine operation, according to narcotics agents, who arrested four people and seized money, drugs and paraphernalia.

There's a big difference in a Pioneer Valley winter and the much colder winter experienced in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts.

Ken White, Holyoke Community College's director of community services, left, looks at an artist's rendering of the former fire station that will house a new bus terminal in Holyoke.

Superintendent Nadine Binkley said Friday that she does not believe drastic changes to the school calendar will be needed to make up for days missed following the Dec.

The season for snow days is hardly over, but a series of unexpected events have left some Berkshire County schools unsettled about making up for lost class time.