Deerfield News

Dr. Peter R. Vail's worldwide explorations as a research geologist and research scientist for Exxon shook the oil industry to its very core.

It's almost closing time for the state's long-standing exemption on sales taxes for alcohol.

When Freedom Credit Union opened its Greenfield branch at 74 Main St. Monday, it marked the return of what was once a credit union for Millers Falls Co.

Morris William Fuqua, 65, of South Deerfield, died Sunday at home. He was born on July 21, 1943 in Somerville.

With a boost in state taxes and projected cuts in state services and funding to help towns and cities, the $27.4 billion budget adopted Friday was described by Senate Ways and Means Chairman Stephen Brewer as 'like pulling off a Band-Aid: It's necessary but it's painful.' What's worse, though, is that the spending plan for the fiscal year that ...

SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. All of the recent wet weather can be devastating for local crops.

The New England Youth Theatre will celebrate its 10th birthday by -- what else? -- putting on a show.

Local public school officials have many concerns about brewing legislation that would allow state bureaucrats to restructure school districts.

Summertime and the living is easy. Scup are biting and the tide is high. Porgy, the protagonist of George Gershwin 's American opera, 'Porgy and Bess,' was probably a scup fisherman.

Mount Anthony Union High School students presented their semester-long projects Thursday to a packed house in the Career Development Center Assembly Room.

By CAROLINE PEPEK cpepek@repub.com Huck Finn certainly wasn't concerned with the conservation of the Mississippi River.

A museum that celebrates the industrial history of Franklin County from the 17th century on will have its grand opening in its new location Sunday, with displays of materials from factories that were part of the winning of the West and the winning of two wars.

Funeral services were held Thursday morning to honor a Massachusetts State Trooper killed in a motorcycle accident.

While Memorial Day is about honoring American service members, many families took advantage of the day off to take mini-vacations. It brought lots of visitors to Franklin County attractions, many from outside the state, who said their vacation habits have changed.

Dianne G. Pippert, 60, a resident of the Poet's Seat Health Care Facility, 359 High Street, formerly of 12A Standish Court , as well as Deerfield, MA, died Saturday, May 23, 2009 at the Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA following a period of declining health.

AMHERST, Mass. – Just in time to help travelers negotiate heavy Memorial Day weekend traffic more effectively, the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Regional Traveler Information Center has installed new, traffic-monitoring cameras on Route 9 at Bay Road in Hadley.

Something may be brewing in Millers Falls. The Zoning Board of Appeals has scheduled a public hearing later this month on a proposal to build a microbrewery near the center of the western Massachusetts village.

It's official ... The Bingville reunion will be Saturday, June 27, at the Greenfield Elks Club.

Having an encounter with deer is no longer a rarity. These days, they seem to be ubiquitous.

Having an encounter with deer is no longer a rarity. Not that long ago, it was almost unheard of to see deer within city limits or even in the suburbs.