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The man placed the set on a bicycle and fled the scene. Police are investigating.

Business Insider reports on the controversy when FDR pushed Thanksgiving back a week to give Depresssion-era merchants an extra week to move product: ... The selectmen of Plymouth, Massachusetts, informed the President, "It is a religious holiday and [you] have no right to change it for commercial reasons." Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to ...

First the good news: from pennies to big checks, residents across the Valley pitched in some $70,000 for the Sydney F. Smith Toy Fund in 2008.

Holly Cole and her quartet will perform at Scullers. HOLLY COLE Dubbed "A Night Before Christmas,'' the swellegant Cole and her quartet will make merry with jazzed up hymns and carols and a smattering of her normal repertoire of vocal pop standards.

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.

This rural town 88 miles west of Boston has no traffic lights and no businesses, but it does have this - voters who turn out for elections at a higher rate than anywhere else in the state.

At Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society ita s raining kittens and more kittens! Faith is one of more than three dozen adorable little felines awaiting new homes between our adoption centers in Springfield and Leverett.

Choose your own path to school regionalization, or we'll choose it for you. That was the message from the state over the past couple of years, and it was enough to keep small Hampshire County schools scrambling.

Working from his Wendell Depot Road shop, David Scott has built sundials for a doctor in Puerto Rico, the Leverett Coop and one for downtown Orange.

Next year's closing of Mark's Meadow School, foreground, with the University of Massachusetts campus in the background, means Amherst schools must reorganize their student populations.

Voters cast an eye toward the future at a special Town Meeting Tuesday night, approving an energy-saving initiative and the installation of a new water well near the town's 20-year-old landfill on Cemetery Road.

A Chicopee woman who was lost in the woods near East Chestnut Hill Road Monday night was retrieved with the help of several police and fire agencies, including a new multi-town search and rescue group out on its first live mission.

When I tell people I live in Royalston, they tend to stare blankly. "Boylston?," they say.

The creation of a regional elementary school district makes little financial sense for the towns of Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury, according to a new report.

The creation of a regional school district makes little financial sense for the towns of Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury, according to a report issued by the panel charged with studying the matter.

Fourth graders at Leverett Elementary in Fayetteville took a special lap around their school to honor the life of their classmate, Olivia Ray.

Vintage Green, the developer of a high-efficiency home in Leverett, are hoping the added lure of a high-efficiency Volkswagen will draw interest in a down real estate market, the Republican reports.

When firefighters got to the scene to extinguish the large bonfire in the back yard, party-goers were disrespectful toward them, as well.

Name: Annie Breed: Jack Russell mix Age: Seven years Sex: Spayed Female Color: White & Black Date of Surrender: 8/8/09 Annie has been with Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society for six long weeks.

Staff at the University of Massachusetts helped students on campus cope with the death Sept.