The Master Plan Committee met to review feedback from the first public meeting for the town's master plan update and discuss how that will guide the next phase of the process, with goals related to ...

Massachusetts is accelerating the push for solar energy by introducing new regulations for large-scale solar arrays, which ...

As an early childhood consultant, I have the privilege of visiting and working with a wide variety of early childhood programs in both Franklin and Hampshire counties, as well as the North Quabbin ...

Years ago, I was driving over La Veta Pass in southern Colorado, a lovely stretch that divides the eastern plains from the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountain range that extends down into New ...

If I’d known how fulfilling grandchildren were, I’d have skipped having children. It’s meant to capture the sweetness of grandparenting — the joy without the grind. But thousands of grandparents in ...

The Selectboard has voted to draft a Home Rule Petition to seek five additional beer and wine licenses, which, if approved, would go to the state Legislature for consideration.

Max Bowen is the editor of the Athol Daily News, and can be reached at [email protected] and 413-930-4074. He’s ...

Ronald P. Mitchell III was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of armed robbery and two counts of kidnapping, with the judge citing his cooperation with the ...

Opera singer Perry Brisbon presented a musical timeline of the "American sound" at Greenfield Community College on Friday, starting with spirituals and progressing through ragtime, blues, jazz, soul, ...

State health plan overseers under pressure to tame spiraling health care costs delayed a vote on controversial benefit changes — particularly eliminating coverage for GLP-1 drugs for weight loss — in ...

Members of Franklin County snowmobile clubs are supporting the $2.9 billion environmental bond bill, which would provide funding for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation to maintain ...