Leverett News

Above, from left, a Nandi bull, vintage singing bowl with cushion, a necklace, handmade papier mache box with an elephant god image, and metal filagree bracelets.

Earlier this year, I was on one of my longer walks, following a series of back roads that included Teawaddle Hill Road in Leverett.

Talk may be cheap, but there were few telephone customers who turned out Tuesday night to complain about Verizon service at the first of four public hearings scheduled by the state Department of Telecommunications and Cable.

Emily Galindo, Greer Hanshaw and Olufemi Leverett attend prep school on scholarship.

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest and most prestigious university in the United States.

In the beginning, there was the trash. Tons of it. Piles of it. The image seen 'round the world 22 years ago, was of Mobro 4000, the barge with 3,168 tons of garbage rejected at ports along the East Coast and even in Belize searching for somewhere to dump its load.

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.

Flames went right through the roof of a home in Franklin County. Firefighters fought it from above but had to go low to get the water.

A Montague Road home was in ruins after a fire ripped through the green house on Friday night -- prompting firefighters from across Franklin County to come out to help put out the blaze.

The elementary and secondary schools would lose the equivalent of 50 full-time positions, or about 8 percent of their current work forces, under the budgets the School Committees approved Tuesday.

A law that would restrict building on hilltops, rules for adult entertainment businesses and a resolution aimed at asserting the importance of keeping local control of schools in the face of regionalization are among the issues to be tackled at Wednesday's annual town meeting.

With federal stimulus funding to 'turbocharge' the state's $40 million effort to provide broadband service to the least-served communities in Massachusetts, Gov.

By KEN ROSS kross@repub.com HADLEY - Flipping through a book of photographs, Leverett resident Robert A. MacDonald sounded like a proud parent as he displayed photos of his 1932 John Deere GP tractor.

Some Franklin County residents are worried about the impending closure of the Dakin Pioneer Valley Animal Shelter in Greenfield.

Firefighters from 15 departments spent nearly four hours knocking down a brush fire sparked by a passing train.

Leverett-based Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society has come up with a rescue plan for the former MSPCA animal care and adoption center in Springfield.

While one door closed for good last month--another one is opening for the area's animals.

Two of the three adoption centers the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced it was closing because of the economy will remain open under new management.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - It was almost one month ago that Springfield's MSPCA animal shelter closed its doors.

Town Meeting Saturday voted to make it easier to establish home businesses, agreed to open the door to wireless towers, approved a budget, and heard a report on school regionalization.