Cummington News

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.

The Cummington Fairgrounds played host on Saturday to the 3rd annual Hilltown Spring Festival.

Voters at Wednesday night's annual town meeting approved 32 of 33 articles, including a measure that would allow the town to remove snow and make necessary temporary repairs to South Shore Road, a privately owned, one-mile gravel roadway along Plunkett Lake.

Voters will consider 33 articles at Wednesday's annual town meeting including a proposal to amend the transportation agreement for the seven member towns of the Central Berkshire Regional School District.

Grace and Brody Calvert, 7 and 4, of Windsor place lilacs on the gravesites of veterans at Hilltop Cemetery in Plainfield as part of the town's Memorial Day observance Monday.

Victorious in 13 consecutive contests this past season against teams representing schools from Clarksburg, Florida, Cummington, Hinsdale, Lanesborough, Becket and Worthington, the undefeated Cheshire School boys' basketball team is regarded at Berkshire County's best for 1959.

Brian Reed, left, projects manager for Homes For Our Troops, shows Army veteran Peter J. Rooney III a drawing of the house his organization is planning to build for Rooney in Worthington.

Q: Now that the snow is gone, our lawn is covered in places with mounds of dirt that look like they may have been tunnels.

Central Berkshire Regional School District is relying on a combination of cost savings, spending cuts, and federal stimulus money to help balance its budget for fiscal year 2010, which begins July 1. The ...

Leni Fried, founder of BagShare, sews a bag using donated cloth. Thursday, March 12 Bagshare is coming to the Berkshires.

Artist: Gene and Susan Flores Medium: Sculpture - Wood Venue: Address: Event: 'Little House to Honor a Request for Poems' is a traveling writing hut.

A student, a graduate, a teacher, and an administrator for the Central Berkshire Regional School District, Deborah "Debbie" Bevan will assume a new title at the end of this school year: retiree.

An early-morning fire gutted a sugar house on Rida Road, near the town's border with Cummington.

Fire severely damaged a home on Swift River Road in the early today, diverting Route 9 traffic for miles while firefighters battled the blaze.

Giant icicles hang from the front of Westfield Spring Manufacturing Co. on Railroad Ave.

Farmington River Regional School will bid farewell to its principal at the end of the school year.

Clark Joyner cuts fallen branches from last week's ice storm Tuesday at the Joyners' dairy farm on Dodwells Road in Cummington.