Greenfield News

The state will begin its upgrade of the town's eight major intersection traffic signals on Monday.

Recorder/Paul Franz Philippe Rigollaud, an owner of Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics , left, and installer Jon Parrott, , left, and installer Jon Parrott, second from left, talk to Amy Shapiro and John Waite of the Franklin County Community Development Corp.

About 600 doses of the swine flu vaccine that recently arrived in Franklin County will be used to vaccinate the area's most vulnerable students.

Beginning this column with a list isn't usual, but this list of awards from the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association's Bridge of Flower's Race Mini Grants is good news to 12 recipients.

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.

The county's regional schools are going to have to absorb hundreds of thousands of dollars for school busing and local homeless services may be curtailed because of the governor's mid-year budget cuts.

A group of Greenfield, Mass., residents has taken its Zoning Board of Appeals to court to contest its decision approving a wood-burning combined heat and power facility within the town limits.

Superheroes, ghouls and princesses collect candy from a pirate merchant on Main Street in Greenfield during the trick-or-treating and Parade Thursday evening.

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.

Young ghosts, ghouls, goblins, witches, cartoon characters, super heroes and more will join forces downtown Thursday evening to celebrate Halloween a little early.

Two years ago, Beth Cronk of Montague was part of Rays of Hope -- A Walk Toward the Cure of Breast Cancer -- in Springfield.

My mother and a family friend are meeting me Monday for lunch and a hike in the Shelburne Falls area, . Nothing is open in Shelburne Falls on Monday, so we will probably be traveling to Greenfield or beyond for lunch, but I am not coming up with any ideas for lunch on a Monday.

Lionel ''Paul'' Gagnon Jr. has spent most of his adult life fighting fires and responding to emergency calls in the area -- always helping others, because that's what he loves.

Shirley Cohen Lund, 84, of the Mill House, 75 Wells St., died Wednesday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.

Dozens of seabirds rest on the buoys crossing the Connecticut River between Turners Falls and Gill.

Hallie Anderson leads a sea of umbrellas starting on the first leg of the CROP Walk (For Hunger from the Federated Church in Charlemont on Sunday.

In a ruling that favors people charged with drunken driving, the state's highest court on Friday affirmed that only the lower of two breath test results can be used at trial for a Western Massachusetts man.

Ruth E. Smith, 95, formerly of Silver Street, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at Poet's Seat Health Care Center.

Farmer Chester Waite would probably recognize the facade of his Greek Revival house from the country road in Whately where he lived in 1838.

In light of pending legal costs, possible state aid cuts and labor complaints against the town, the mayor is hoping for the best and preparing for the worst: that the town might have to cut $1 million from its budget.