Northfield News

Phone service is back on for Northfield Verizon land-line customers after a day of busy signals.

When the Orange Commun-ity Band plays its opening concert of the season tonight, beginning at 7:30 p.m., it will be carrying on a tradition that is more than 150 years old.

Massachusetts has already approved $187.4 million in highway and mass-transportation projects funded by the massive federal stimulus bill, besting its goal of approving $153.2 million in projects by Monday, June 29.

Natalie Lucille Tunison, 95, of Northfield, daughter of the late Alice J. deVeer Briesmaster and Frederick H. Briesmaster, died Wednesday at Poet's Seat Health Care Center in Greenfield.

The rope on the flagpole at Federal Street School in Greenfield was rotten. It didn't really matter, because there has not been a flag there to be raised for quite some time.

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.

Sara A. Gibson began performing with The Country Players as a teenager. Now just 24, she's directing her first musical for the group and will help celebrate the acting group's 30th anniversary.

A concert of vocal and choral music will be presented by the Recital Chorus, directed by Margery Heins, on Sunday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Artspace Community Arts Center, 15 Mill Street, Greenfield.

By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com NORTHFIELD - Academically on top of her graduating class of 65 students, the valedictorian at Pioneer Valley Regional School said that the size of her class, or lack of it, really matters.

Operation Touch of Home has been has already sent more than 100 packages to local soldiers and sailors overseas, since the project was organized by Tessa White-Diemand and Jessica Gale Turner in November 2007.

Da Camera Singers, under the direction of Sheila Heffernon, will present "Monteverdi: A Retrospective," a program of sacred and secular music by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi on Saturday, May 30, 8 p.m. at St.

When Kimberly Deane, 19, of Bernardston took her first ride on a horse at age 2½, I'm sure there was no thought that 17 years later she would win a prestigious national award ... of course, with a horse.

A delicious pancake breakfast will takes place at Second Congregational Church Court Square, in Greenfield, on the fourth Saturday of every month from 8 to 11 a.m. Pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee or tea is available.

Greenfield High School is fortunate to have the GHS Alumni Association looking after some of its needs for the past nine years it has been in existence.

Tiffany A. Hilton seen in her Greenfield studio. By CORI URBAN The fifth annual Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. with 10 western Massachusetts potters opening their studios to the public.

The results are in and North Central Massachusetts will soon have its very own "Teen Idol." On April 4, 92 hopeful contestants brought their best vocal performances to Mount Wachusett Community College in the first step to becoming "Teen Idol at the Mount." The singers ranged in age from 13 to 19 and sang every conceivable type of music.

PaintBox Theatre directed by Tom McCabe is presenting "The Princess and the Pea" at The Shea Theatre, 71 Avenue A, Turners Falls on April 18, at 2 p.m. Oh, she may be sensitive, but what happens if the Princess doesn't want to get married? Will we have a Happily Ever After? Tom McCabe and PaintBox Theatre put a very special spin on this classic ...

Florence A. Phelps, 87, of 625 Old Winchester Road, died Friday at Parkview Kindred Hospital, Springfield.

On a recent day, students were preparing the new Northfield Mount Hermon School theater for a performance of 'Carousel,' a production that tapped into all four areas of the school's art program: dance, visual art, music and theater.

Dexter Marsh was building a sidewalk out of sandstone in Greenfield in the 1830s when he came across the dinosaur track that would form the basis of his now famous natural history collection.