Deerfield News

Contractors were busy this week replacing the roof on Franklin County Fairground's 110-year old Roundhouse with fire-retardant clear cedar shakes.

The mother of a man who walked away from a New Hampshire facility where he was being treated for schizophrenia says her son has been found in western Massachusetts.

South Deerfield, MA Yankee Holding Corp. and The Yankee Candle Co. reported sales of of $168.7 million from continuing operations for the third quarter ended October 3, a 4.2 percent decrease from the prior year quarter.

Mark St. Amand loads a reproduction 1861 Colt Navy black powder pistol at the Franklin County League of Sportsmen Club in East Deerfield.

The weekend of Nov 7 - 8 marks the fifteenth annual Franklin County CiderDays festival.

Located in several Massachusetts towns around the junction of Route 2 and Interstate 91, among them Shelburne Falls, Greenfield, New Salem, and Deerfield, CiderDays features workshops for cider makers and home orchardists, tasting events, including a cider-cheese pairing, orchard tours, a harvest supper, and more.

Pointing to a nearly $11 million cut in payments to towns for state-owned lands and $18 million for regional school busing, nearly 50 town officials confronted area legislators Friday disputing the impression painted by Gov.

Thomas Glen Hollingsworth, of South Deerfield, Mass., age 79, died October 23, 2009 at the Cozy Corner Nursing Home in Sunderland, Massachusetts.

James Rewa, 75, of 135 Conway Road, West Whately, died Wednesday in the Calvin Coolidge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Northampton.

DAVID ROBINSON on a fascinating history of colonial America THIS is a story that begins in Deerfield, Massachusetts, at four o'clock in the morning of Monday 29 February 1704.

Get it? I was talking with my Dad yesterday over lunch. Both of those events are rarities, so I tried to cherish the moment.

Four Masonic lodges in Franklin County and one in Athol will hold open houses on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to District Deputy Grand Master John White of the 26th Masonic District, the lodges will be observing Square and Compass Day, which is an opportunity to learn abut the work of Masons and their charitable efforts, along with some ...

Well-watered farmland and forest like the Valley's is becoming rarer and rarer in the U.S. and the world.

Western Massachusetts is the mecca for fall foliage lovers during Columbus Day weekend.

Stanley J. Kuznik, 85, of Leyden, formerly of Greenfield, died Thursday at home.

Stella F. Pelis, 92, of Turnpike Road, Park Villa Apts., died Sunday at Poet's Seat Health Care Center in Greenfield.

DEERFIELD, Mass. - A western Massachusetts butterfly conservatory is releasing a cloud of monarch butterflies.

Tom Ricardi, bottom right, releases a 14-pound female bald eagle that he raised from an egg laid by a pair of bald eagles in April that he cares for at his raptor rehabilitation center in Conway.

Firefighters from Greenfield and Deerfield came to the rescue of a woman who plummeted 30 to 40 feet off a cliff into the Deerfield River.

Bruce Wilby, president and chief executive officer of Greenfield, Massachusetts-based Argotec, Inc.