Turners Falls News

Ray Jarvis of Jarvis Pools and Spas on the hill in Turners Falls picks up items from his business after a woman drove a (Suburu completely through his business and then continued down the hill before being arrested early Friday morning.

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' investor-owned electric utility companies -- National Grid, NSTAR, Unitil, and Western Mass Electric Company, successfully completed an energy efficiency pilot program called the Zero Energy Challenge.

Raymond Philip Morin, 86, of 75 South St. No. 34, formerly of 85 Turnpike Road in Turners Falls, died Sunday at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield.

July 1 - Calling All Kids! Junior Rangers is coming to the Great Falls Discovery Center! Workshop 1 of 4 Starting July 1, the Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls is offering a four-part science and nature education workshop for children as part of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Junior Ranger program.

When Freedom Credit Union opened its Greenfield branch at 74 Main St. Monday, it marked the return of what was once a credit union for Millers Falls Co.

For two hours every Thursday, Dennis L. Grader heads to the Family Inn in Greenfield to sculpt Play-Doh, paint, read and just spend time with the children who make their homes there.

As the unemployment rate continues to rise in Massachusetts, more jobless residents are trying to figure out how to survive.

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.

A Greenfield man accused of killing two people in his apartment nearly two years ago is tentatively scheduled to go on trial in December.

Summertime and the living is easy. Scup are biting and the tide is high. Porgy, the protagonist of George Gershwin 's American opera, 'Porgy and Bess,' was probably a scup fisherman.

Edward W. Guilbault, 91, of 31 Holland Ave., died Sunday at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke.

A Turners Falls woman with a history of depression was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail yesterday on charges of trying to murder her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors at a Gardner apartment complex.

A woman charged with repeatedly stabbing her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors in the laundry room of a Gardner apartment complex has been ordered held on $100,000 bail.

This is the time of the year when I hear about special awards. DR. SALLY LIVINGSTON of Concord, daughter of Stella Skrzypek and the late Joseph Skrzypek of Turners Falls, has been inducted into the Twenty-First Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame at Baypath College in Springfield.

Greg Nuttelman knows what life is like at the top: The view is stunning. But it takes work to get there.

Becoming an Eagle scout is the dream of every boy scout here in western Massachusetts.

Funeral services were held Thursday morning to honor a Massachusetts State Trooper killed in a motorcycle accident.

Two finalists for Souhegan High School principal have been chosen. Today, Sue M. Gee and Joseph P. Dillon will be interviewed throughout the day at the high school by groups of students, parents, faculty and administrators.

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.