Plainfield News

Excited birders with spotting scopes and cameras in tow gathered at Orange Airport this week to catch a glimpse of a bird rarely seen in this area.

To some, the sparkly quartz crystals, deep purple fluorite and silvery cubes of pyrite are something nice to look at.

Mashantucket - It's not Schemitzun, but the Mashantucket Pequots' annual harvest celebration lives on as the scaled-down Green Corn Powwow.A smaller, more intimate powwow got started Friday at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, with a grand entrance of mostly eastern tribes in full, vibrant regalia that danced into the atrium as drummers pounded out a ...

Above, a view of the Cummington Congregational Church steeple the day after last December's ice storm struck.

There has been a disturbing report of animal cruelty at a Plainfield farm. Officer Stacey Magdycz of Plainfield Police Department told 22News at about approximately 4:30 Monday afternoon a 911 call had been placed after a car hit a cow that had made its way into the street.

(WWLP) - A disturbing discovery of several dead cows was made at a farm in Plainfield, MA. http://www.wwlp.com

A Connecticut man accused of breaking into his former girlfriend's Plainfield home to fatally stab her has turned down a plea deal.

Grace and Brody Calvert, 7 and 4, of Windsor place lilacs on the gravesites of veterans at Hilltop Cemetery in Plainfield as part of the town's Memorial Day observance Monday.

Despite recommendations to merge from the Hawlemont and Mohawk Trail regional school committees, annual town meeting voters said 'no' Monday night to having their elementary school become part of the Mohawk Trail Regional School District, defeating the proposal by only four votes.

Town Meeting agreed Saturday to keep a high level of cash on hand while reducing budgets for the coming fiscal year.

Two out of eight Mohawk Trail Regional School District member towns gave their approval Saturday for the 105-student Hawlemont Regional School District to join the larger, Mohawk kindergarten-through Grade 12 regional school district.

The Northern Berkshire Mineral Club, founded on April 27, 1959, is preparing to celebrate 50 years of its existence.

Two men, including one from Massachusetts, have been charged with stealing thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from a northeastern Connecticut company.