Whately News

Western Massachusetts residents wrapped up a three-day holiday weekend with festivals and fireworks.

Soil samples collected from the moon approximately 40 years ago have made their way to the David and Joyce Milne Public Library.

Emily Godden, left, Anna Madden and Molly Keller plant zuchini squash plants. 2 GORDON DANIELS Kindergarten teacher Jenn Murphy, left, gives pumpkin seeds to Fiona McMahon and Dylan O'Connor for them to plant.

Greenfield's downtown community park has put together a terrific party for their tenth anniversary.

Mary Dihlmann, left, and her daughter, Kathy Steve, talk about a door at Shutesbury Community Church, one of many artifacts that were discovered while renovating the church.

If they stop trying we won't have any shad or salm... Gary, Great job. Since reading K. Meyer's Turner... You're right on the salmon dream.

Residents of Whately voted to boost their property taxes to install a new roof on the Whately Elementary School.

A New Salem man is being held on $5,000 bail, charged with breaking into a home in Whately, then running from police in Greenfield.

Local public school officials have many concerns about brewing legislation that would allow state bureaucrats to restructure school districts.

Disaster was averted in Hatfield on Tuesday night thanks to the quick response of the Hatfield Fire Department.

The Massachusetts State Police apprehended a suspect in Greenfield, Saturday, who police say might be connected to a string of burglaries in the Dummerston area.

One Dummerston resident was shocked to find that her home had been ransacked in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon.

Whately Elementary School will have a new principal when the school year begins next fall.

The Cummington Fairgrounds played host on Saturday to the 3rd annual Hilltown Spring Festival.

Photo Caption. This is the wild flower peak. In bloom this week at New England Wild Flower Society headquarters in Framingham, from top: Giant solomon seal; Celandine poppy; Trillium cuneatum ; Dutchmans' breeches.

New England Wild Flower Society's Nasami Farm Nursery opened its 2009 Spring Season and will remain open Thursday-Sundays until June 14.

After month of studying options for regionalizing Frontier and Union 38 school districts, it's still not clear that combining the South County schools into a K-12 district, while maintaining level or near-level services to students, will produce any savings, administrators say.

Bill Benner and Joe Wicinski are accustomed to feathered visitors - they have documented 112 species at feeders in their yard in the four years they have lived there.

Enjoy this all-you-can-eat breakfast featuring blueberry and regular pancakes with sausage and real Maple syrup.

Before the ceremony, from left, Stewart Marshall, of Orange, Neil Marshall, of Chicopee and Doris Aitkinson, of South Hadley, check notes about forebear John Webster.