Petersham News

Members of the Conservation Commission offered little resistance last week to a suggestion that a trail running through one of its conservation areas be named after former member and longtime conservationist Bruce Clements.

Agretti, a tangy marsh grass, is one of Skye Gyngell's favourite seasonal ingredients.

Ever since a vast tract of Martha's Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad.

Jazz and blues were on the menu for the Student Union's Live at the U audience Saturday night.

A missing female bull mastiff has been found after she disappeared from the Ashburnham Pound on Central Street nearly two weeks ago.

Everyone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of the stories about North Shore people who have died recently.

A 5-year-old female bull mastiff is missing after possibly being stolen from the Ashburnham pound, local officials say.

Anthony ''Tony'' P. Bosco Jr., 55, of 30 Cheney St., died unexpectedly late Wednesday afternoon, Sept.

Piles of acorns covered the ground at the Riverway in Boston. Walkers and cyclists are treading carefully.

One of the pleasures of working at Petersham, says Skye Gyngell, is being able to see her crops grow.

Think anchovies are just for pizzas? Well you should think again, says Skye Gyngell, because there are a million other things that you can do with this tasty little fish Every Monday morning for the past two and a half years l have sat down and planned the weekly menu for the restaurant here at Petersham.

U.S. troops in Afghanistan donned shorts and laced up sneakers Friday to run in memory of the Sept.

There are many reasons Rev. M. Lara Hoke feels she is a good fit for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Locke Street.

IT'S hard to imagine a more convivial daytrip from London, at least when a gourmet lunch and gulps of good country air are one's goals.

When chef Greg Malouf spent a day at Petersham, he created a lavish feast of delicacies from his homeland, the Lebanon - and worked Skye Gyngell to the bone The other day I woke up on a glorious Monday morning to find that spring was finally in the air.

The Petersham Country store has been a landmark building in the center of Petersham for well over 100 years.

The Petersham Country store has been a landmark building in the center of Petersham for well over 100 years.

The Petersham Country store has been a landmark building in the center of Petersham for well over 100 years.

The last one-room schoolhouse to operate in town is getting something of a makeover, although not as extreme as hoped before the slumping economy prompted the state to cut tourism money in October.

For 169 years a country store has operated in the big white-pillared building at Main and East streets, and reports of its closing may have been greatly exaggerated.