Cummington News

Investigators continue to probe a fatal crash that took the lives of an elderly Dalton couple on Route 9 Monday afternoon.

MA ELDERLY FATAL CRASH The Associated Press CUMMINGTON, Mass. - Police say an elderly couple has died after their car veered off the road and struck a rock ledge in Cummington.

Not many gifts will pay off seven to one. Yet, that's what Hilltown givers to the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Neighbor-to-Neighbor Fund will leverage if they make their donations to the fund by Dec.

A Haydenville man who was critically injured in a two-car rollover accident on Stage Road Wednesday afternoon was listed in stable condition at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, a hospital spokesman said Thursday.

Calls have gone out from across the nation. Traps have been set around the area.

CHARLEMONT The proof of the pudding may be in the eating, but on Saturday, it was in Charlemont.

A new matching grant program will give residents in the hilltowns a chance to help their neighbors in need this winter.

Along the Berkshire trail, better known as U.S. Route 9, between Cummington and Goshen Center, is a small barn just west of the George D. Judd and Sons Property of 'Goshen Stone' fame.

The movement has been afoot for a few years to eliminate having purchases packed into paper or plastic bags.

Today is the first annual Fall Food Preservation Day in Massachusetts. Several communities are offering workshops on how to preserve locally grown food for the winter months.

My guess is that they don't come much younger. Last May, at the Cummington Fairgrounds, the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair was celebrating its 35th year, as visitors walked among the displays, vendors and animal pens, thoroughly enjoying the renewal of one of the world's oldest industries.

My guess is that they don't come much younger. Last May, at the Cummington Fairgrounds, the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair was celebrating its 35th year, as visitors walked among the displays, vendors and animal pens, thoroughly enjoying the renewal of one of the world's oldest industries.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Berkshire County until 3:30p.m. The National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm with the potential to produce wind gusts to 40 mph and small hail.

Perhaps it is the nature of pottery that has helped the primitive craft adapt to the lifestyles of modern day.

Above, a view of the Cummington Congregational Church steeple the day after last December's ice storm struck.

Fans of famed poet, journalist and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post William Cullen Bryant will gather at Bryant's boyhood home and adult summer residence in Cummington on Saturday for a day filled with poetry, speech and a variety of family-friendly activities.

The Hampshire County 4-H Fair will be held on Saturday, July 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Cummington Fairgrounds.

A property bought for $35,000 in 2003 could turn into a buildable lot with a multimillion-dollar view of Saquatucket Harbor.

Brian Tedder photo -- Pioneer Valley Performing Arts graduate Aiden L. Talbot, of Cummington, looks at his mortarboard before commencement ceremonies Thursday evening at the Calvin Theater in Northampton.

Students, teachers and volunteers from Taconic High School will release 300 salmon fingerlings into the Westfield River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, at 3 p.m., Friday at the Cummington Plaza on Route 9 in Cummington.