Greenfield News

The 156-year-old Baptist church that closed its doors a little more than a year ago has donated $132,000 of its $452,000 in assets to area service agencies and charities, which will use that money to help local people in need of food, shelter, warmth and counseling.

If you live in Greenfield and received a bag for food last Saturday, don't forget to put that bag back out Saturday, filled with non-perishable food for the Franklin Area Survival Center.

William P. Christern, 88, of Greenfield, died at home on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. William was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Oct.

Friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky day for Mindy, a 2-year-old Maltese poodle that was found emaciated and alone near a boat ramp in Northfield, over 600 miles from home and over three months after being lost.

Investigators have determined that the cause of the fire that displaced 21 tenants from a residential and commercial complex on Chapman Street earlier this month was caused by improper disposal of cigarettes.

Part pub of yore, part local and seasonal foods stronghold, The People's Pint has been getting the combination right in Greenfield since 1997.

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.

A crane and Dumpsters sit at 29 Chapman St. in Greenfield on Wednesday, ready for today's scheduled demolition of the top floor of the four-story building after Sunday's fire.

While heavy equipment removed the roof of a fire-damaged four-story brick apartment building Friday, a block away the Moose Club served as a free store for the fire's victims.

Anne S. Maniatty of New York City, a native of Greenfield, Mass., died Friday in Avon, Conn.

Tenants of one Greenfield apartment building lost everything to a weekend fire, Monday nearly two dozen people are picking up the pieces to their lives.

The phone at the Loyal Order of the Moose Family Center has been ringing off the hook ever since 21 people were left homeless by a fire that ravaged a Chapman Street apartment building.

Fire officials have not said whether the fire at 29 Chapman Street on Sunday morning was suspicious.

IN GREENFIELD, A MASSIVE FIRE ON CHAPMAN STREET SUNDAY MORNING HAS LEFT 21 PEOPLE HOMELESS...AND ALSO, MANY OF THEM HAVE LOST EVERYTHING THEY OWN.

Six people fleeing from their burning apartment building were trapped on a fire escape and one fire captain was injured in a massive blaze that destroyed a commercial and residential building.

A fire tore through a building in Greenfield early this morning. The building was home to over 20 people and several businesses.

A fire broke out Sunday morning at a building containing residential apartments and other businesses, officials said.

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

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.