Colrain News

Two Colrain men are being hailed as heros, after running inside a burning home on Thanksgiving to save a woman's pets.

A 2 alarm fire has crews from 2 states combating its flames. The fire broke out in Colrain around 9pm Thursday night across from 116 Greenfield Road.

A state trooper from Tewksbury was honored late last week for his work investigating a massive case of vandalism earlier this year in the western Massachusetts town where he works.

A trolley bridge was built in 1908 across the Deerfield River connecting the towns of Shelburne and Buckland in Massachusetts.

A single-vehicle crash on Adamsville Road late Tuesday night sent a motorist to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield with non-life-threatening injuries.

The debate over big bonuses for executives at bailed-out A.I.G. heats up again on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are hearing from the special inspector general for the $700 billion financial rescue program.

The small hilltown that some of its officials say struggles to maintain its agrarian identity will have plenty of opportunity to show it off this weekend when it celebrates its 200th birthday.

Robert ''Bob'' George Billings, 85, of Greenfield, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct.

The Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts is calling its 2010 garden calendar, ''The Wonderful World of Plants.'' And the photos, in full color, carry out that theme.

Thelma C. Shaw, 99, formerly of Bridge Street, died Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, at the Anchorage Nursing Home.

Abington has a spacious new senior center but just lost its Council on Aging director to the town of Plymouth.

When Tiffany Hilton began her new job as Whately librarian four months ago she faced a dilemma: The shelves of the town's S. White Dickinson Memorial Library had no music offerings.

By BUFFY SPENCER bspencer@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - A Colrain man pleaded innocent in Hampden Superior Court on Tuesday to driving while intoxicated in connection with a June 15 crash on Interstate 91 in Holyoke.

A man was seriously injured after falling off a roof at 21 Dwight Cross Road in Colrain just after 5pm Sunday.

I've had a letter sitting here on my desk for a couple of years, one I've ''been meaning to get to,'' if you know what I mean.

Would the historic Brick Meeting House make a good senior center? The selectmen have unanimously approved a feasibility study to determine whether the two-story building, built in 1834, could provide the town's senior citizens with an adequate space that's closer to home than the four-town senior center in Shelburne Falls.

Three local men were involved in a car accident on Monday afternoon that left the truck they were traveling in on its side in the Green River.

Three local men were involved in a car accident on Monday afternoon that left the truck they were traveling in on its side in the Green River.

Edith Chapman Lagreze, 94, of Newton, died July 28 in Newton. She was the mother of Jonathan and Paul Lagreze of Colrain.

The shooting death of a Main Road man in January has been ruled a justifiable homicide by the Northwestern District Attorney's Office.