Northfield News

Although the Northfield Mount Hermon School has been a one-campus school in Gill since 2005, the prep school remains tied to Northfield.

In the wake of federal spending cuts and a need to increase quality, anti-poverty agency Community Action is reorganizing its "Head Start" program - resulting in 129 fewer poor children across the Pioneer Valley who will be able to enroll in the free or discounted preschool/childcare service this fall.

With completion of a "Sustainable Franklin County" plan that calls for the region to protect farmland and expand local food supplies, a new $74,000 grant will advance "strategic food system planning" over the next year to help build "a resilient regional food system."

The Oklahoma billionaires who gave away the former Northfield Mount Hermon School in January are once again involved in a Northfield property.

A man, possibly homeless, may be missing after entering the Green River in Greenfield.

On Thursday, June 20, at 6:30 p.m. Rockland Public Library will host a dream workshop with Renee Chrystefor.

Located in Northfield, the school has students from 13 neighboring communities. Because it hosts grades 7 through 12, teachers and administrators are able to form strong bonds with the students there, said Principal William Wehrli.

Some time ago, a poet by the name of Joyce Kilmer wrote a poem called "Trees," a few lines of which said, "a tree who looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray ...." Well, let me tell you, trees on Route 63 between Erving and Northfield are praying, "Help! Help! the experts are coming!" Never in all my 55 years of being involved with ... (more)

Dateline Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately: Having residents of the three individual towns decide whether they want to be part of a regional EMT/ambulance service is probably the best way for the decision to be made.

The town nearly passed a 4 percent increase to its share of the school district budget at this week's annual town meeting.

For roughly nine years, The Friends of Schell Bridge have existed for one reason - to find a way to keep the Schell Memorial Bridge from becoming just another memory of what life was once like in Northfield.

ECA+ GALLERY, 43 Main St., Easthampton. Monday through Thursday and Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. www.easthamptoncityarts.com . Abstract painter Mary Witt exhibits "Fractured Reality," a series of paintings exploring texture, depth, color and movement.

Voters will decide whether to fund their $2.32 million share of the school district budget and more than $50,000 in school capital projects at Wednesday's annual town meeting.

A man, his face hidden with a black hooded sweatshirt and blue bandana, came into the store, partially showed what appeared to be a gun in his sweatshirt pocket, demanded cash from the drawer and left with an undisclosed amount of money, according to police.

The Schell Memorial Bridge could be replaced with a new bike and pedestrian bridge, at no cost to the town, if the project gets the green light from the Selectboard and state.

Submitted photo GCC student exhibit There will be a reception for an exhibit of student work at Greenfield Community College Thursday, April 18.

Submitted photo Want to have fun Saturday night? Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will be at the Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse Saturday night for a fundraiser for the Montague Reporter.