Williamsburg News

Remote livewire By Donnie Moorhouse The one-sheet promoting the Ray Mason Band's most recent release "Like Bugs Chewing On Paper," contains a proclamation from the group's leader.

AT 615 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 6 MILES WEST OF MIDDLEFIELD...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

In a field off Old Goshen Road in Williamsburg, David McCulloch drives a tractor pulling an automatic baler, while helpers Dave Waldo, left, and Caleb Carriere, both of Williamsburg, work to stack a mounting harvest of hay.

Several Western Massachusetts communities will be that much safer because 31 local men and women have completed their fire service training.

As important as Michelle Obama's arms are to news reporters, the children helping plant and maintain the White House vegetable garden have an even more compelling story.

On May 16, 1874 one of the worst floods in western Massachusetts took place when a dam holding back water from the Mill River unexpectedly burst.

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.

Devon B. Glynn, left, walks his dog Belle, as his stepmother, Leslie A. Leblanc, walks Sabre at Look Park in Northampton Sunday during the "It's Dog Meets Dog, To Say the Leash" fund-raiser put on by the Northampton Lions Club.

"April is the cruelest month," wrote poet T.S Eliot and I'd be inclined to agree with him, but there is just too much good beer news around for me to assign cruelty to these current 30 days.

Eric L. Weiss, of Belchertown, chairman of the advisory board of Springfield Materials Recycling Facility and head of the Hilltown Resource Management Cooperative, displays recyclable materials at the town transfer station in Williamsburg.

Jonathan Z. Souweine is being remembered this week as a brilliant and zealous attorney, a fixture in the community, a devoted friend and a stellar mahjong player.

By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com AMHERST - Forceful. Intense. Tenacious. Thoughtful. Outspoken.

By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com WESTHAMPTON - The Hampshire and Chesterfield-Goshen Regional School Districts are searching for a new superintendent to replace Barbara J. Ripa, who is retiring on June 30.

Allan P. Nelson 75, of Hemmingway Road, Williamsburg died Saturday, April 4, in Northampton Rehab and Nursing Center.

An undisturbed snowplow ridge told the story: It had been months since a four-wheeled vehicle had driven the aboriginal trail that became a Colonial path, then a well-used thoroughfare from Williamsburg to Conway until discontinued around 1950.

The Rev. Gregory S. Dyson, of the Church of the Acres in Springfield, takes a photograph of his daughter, Jessica L. Dyson, after both received American Red Cross 2009 Hometown Heroes awards at the MassMutual Center in Springfield on Wednesday.

The Pioneer Valley Red Cross honored ten western Massachusetts men and women as Hometown Heroes Wednesday morning.

By GEORGE GRAHAM ggraham@repub.com WILLIAMSBURG - An early Saturday morning electrical fire damaged the building housing Bacon's Equipment and JMS Auto Parts on Route 9. Damage was confined to the front of the ...

Lots of beer news has been fermenting in the rusty old tank called my brain, so let me do some cleaning this week: --First up, Opa Opa's Brewmaster's Tavern in Williamsburg has a lot on tap in the coming ...

Wendy Hart with her daughter Lori, 12, of Florence. Hart says she has no desire to delve into the world of Wall Street.