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By DOMENIC POLI

COLRAIN — Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. has announced its Main Road plant will cease operations at the end of January, laying off all 31 employees in the process.Company President Lewis Barnhardt said in a statement Tuesday that “business loss and other...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HEATH — After much back and forth as well as a looming lawsuit, AT&T, the Selectboard and a group of “interveners” have reached a settlement allowing the telecommunication company to build a cell tower on Rowe Road.The settlement, which the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge has taken arguments under advisement following a hearing seeking to appeal the special permits for three solar arrays that were approved for Pine Meadow Road in Northfield.Judge Karen Goodwin said...

By BELLA LEVAVI

BUCKLAND — After surviving pandemic-induced business shutdowns and 14 winter seasons, owner Paul St. Martin has closed the West End Pub at the end of the Bridge of Flowers — at least for now.St. Martin explained the restaurant closed in large part due...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town’s payroll will look considerably different by springtime, with both the town administrator and community development director recently announcing their impending departures.Gabriele “Gabe” Voelker, who also serves as town treasurer,...

By DOMENIC POLI

You’ve possibly known a haunted house to be held in a school or an armory. But how about one inside a 15,000-square-foot Gilded Age brick mansion built for a sewing machine millionaire’s wife and eventually owned by a Masonic sisterhood called the...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Route 2 travelers have likely observed the large Native American statue towering over the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop. But will it be there much longer?An online petition seeking to remove the statue has garnered roughly...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The attorney for one of the 18 people charged in connection with an alleged cocaine trafficking syndicate that had been operating out of a Greenfield barbershop has filed a motion to impound purportedly compromising photos of his client...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ORANGE — With the goal of expanding opportunities to learn about cannabis cultivation, Morning Dew Cultivars recently wrapped up its first four-week training course.The modest facility with few windows and industrial metal walls on Daniel Shays...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A shelter for unwanted and homeless pets established on Montague Road in 1995, creating a small campus for the adoption of dogs, cats and other small animals, is currently closed, and it’s possible that the site may not reopen.The Dakin...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Rhode Island man accused of hospitalizing seven motorcyclists while driving under the influence of drugs on Route 10 in Northfield last spring is still being held on $100,000 bail, Judge Michael Callan reaffirmed on Monday.Ryan T....

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The former National Guard Armory on Hope Street sold at auction Wednesday afternoon for a final sale price of $390,500.“I asked for the assessed value ... and everyone laughed,” recounted auctioneer Justin Manning, president of JJManning...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

BERNARDSTON — A bicyclist was flown to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon.The incident occurred at around 4:10 p.m. on Church Street near Cushman...

By CHRIS LARABEE

ROCHESTER, N.H. — A Whately man has died of his injuries following a Sept. 17 motorcycle crash in Rochester, New Hampshire.Kevin Komosa, 41, died at Frisbie Memorial Hospital on Sept. 18 due to injuries he sustained when his 2016 Harley-Davidson...

By DOMENIC POLI

GILL — Travel Kuz, the fifth-generation coach, limousine and school bus company headquartered on Main Road, has joined the growing Beacon Mobility family of businesses, it was announced Wednesday.The Gill company, which is nearly 100 years old, will...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An Athol man recently pleaded not guilty to three sexual assault charges stemming from alleged incidents involving a young girl that occurred prior to the summer of 2013.William T. McBride, 59, of Brattle Street, was arraigned in Orange...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Michael Shelton is prepared for the next challenge in his coaching career. Shelton — who spent the last three years as the head boys basketball coach at Governor’s Academy in Newbury — was hired in May for the same position at Northfield Mount Hermon...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — An Athol man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, roughly an hour after 12 deliberating jurors found him guilty of killing 26-year-old Kelsey Clifford in 2019.Keith D. Hamel, 25, was convicted of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Noticing a roughly 11-by-12-foot mural depicting engine components on the side of the Manna House building late Tuesday morning, Rachel Stoler approached three people standing near it in a Bank Row alleyway and asked one if he was the...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The boyfriend of the 26-year-old Leominster woman who was beaten to death in November 2019 took the witness stand Monday morning in the trial of the Athol man who is accused of her murder.Kevin McGann spent a couple of hours in Franklin...