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By PAUL FRANZ

GREENFIELD — It would seem the Terrazza restaurant at the Country Club of Greenfield was just the beginning of Abaz Cecunjanin’s venture into Greenfield’s hospitality industry.Cecunjanin opened a new cocktail bar on Jan. 19 called The Balkan Lounge at...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — Providing a 24/7 ride service, American Knight Transportation owner and operator Richard Haste prides himself on being focused on the community and his customers — hence his business’ tagline “where the professionals drive and customers...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — The Barn Grocery Store, at 95 River St., announced its closure Tuesday.“After 20 years, The Barn will be closing at the end of this month,” a post on the grocery store’s Facebook page reads. “We are selling off inventory at 50 percent...

By ANITA FRITZ

BUCKLAND — An email sent by Superintendent Michael Buoniconti to all staff members at the Hawlemont and Mohawk Trail regional school districts explaining his recent relationship with a member of that staff, as well as his impending divorce, is being...

By ANITA FRITZ

When David Shea was 5 years old, he was placed in foster care. He spent the next seven years bouncing around from home to home, and remembers some Christmases when he watched the family he was staying with open presents — with none to open himself.“I...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — Mayhew Tools has been in Franklin County since it first opened in 1856, and is now expanding with the purchase of a Florida company called Bestway Tools.The sale was coordinated largely by John Lawless, who co-owns the company with his...

By DAVID McLELLAN

SPRINGFIELD — A Deerfield businessman and stonemason is being sued by a former employee for allegedly underpaying for years. Wednesday was the first day of the federal court trial of Sonam Rinchen Lama, a Tibetan immigrant and master stonemason who...

By MAX MARCUS

TURNERS FALLS — As one of very few motorcycle shops that can work on almost any bike regardless of its make, model or year, Nova Motorcycles draws customers from throughout New England, and sometimes from as far away as New York City.“If it’s got two...

By DAVID McLELLAN

GREENFIELD — The New Hampshire man who stabbed Massachusetts State Police Trooper Mark Whitcomb last year was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison on Friday, after changing his plea to guilty.Nghia Le, 19, of Manchester, N.H., pleaded guilty to eight...

By ANITA FRITZ

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a week-long series about the state of farming in Franklin County.Sixty-five-year-old David Duprey has been a dairy farmer almost his entire life. It’s the life he has built, the life he knows, and the life he’s not...

By ANITA FRITZ

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a week-long series about the state of farming in Franklin County.Drive along many of the major routes and back roads of Franklin County and you’re bound to run into a farm stand or ice cream/food stand.Many of the...

By DOMENIC POLI

DEERFIELD — Deerfield Academy is, for the second time this month, mourning the death of a former student who came from a powerful American family.David Koch, the libertarian billionaire businessman who graduated from the prestigious institution in...

By GRACE BIRD

TURNERS FALLS — After 31 years in practice, all four primary care doctors and co-owners of Connecticut River Internists will retire at the end of the year.While the doctors — Drs. Joseph Viadero, Adam Blacksin, Wayne Gavryck and Laurence Klein — were...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

GREENFIELD — With Textür Beauty Bar and Textür Blow Out Bar in two towns, owner Carleigh Dlugosz said she wants to bring “a driving energy” to both locations.Dlugosz, a Turners Falls resident who previously co-owned Lavish on Chapman Street with...

By GRACE BIRD

CHARLEMONT — The state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) paid $25,000 for a 4.6-acre piece of riverfront land known as “Sunburn Beach,” owned by family of the late Grace and Marshall Johnson.The land, located off North River Road at the...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Rise Above Bakery and Cafe was merely a product of the imagination of a wide-eyed 20-something in his native New Hampshire.It was around when he had met his wife during his freshman year of college, but before he left school to pursue his...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD – The mother and daughter traumatized by the arson of two barns on their property five years ago had their voices heard the day one of the men convicted in that crime was sentenced to an extra year in prison for a probation violation.Lisa...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Letting those New Year’s resolutions fall by the wayside just got a bit more difficult, as a Planet Fitness franchise has opened in the Big Y plaza.Tom Sullivan, who has owned a Planet Fitness in Gardner for five years, said the new...

By MELINA BOURDEAU

As majestic as the feathered creatures they depict, Leverett resident Macaylla Silver’s paintings draw the viewer to stare into the eyes of birds.Since 2015, Silver has watched, photographed and painted various breeds of birds, with each painting...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

PETERSHAM — The widespread word in the regional recovery community about the substance abuse intensive treatment center at the Quabbin Retreat is last month it “abruptly closed,” but the manager of it, Heywood Healthcare, says the program is merely in...