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By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — Having successfully completed its fundraising ahead of schedule, the Franklin Land Trust is set to purchase and conserve the Edge Hill Golf Course. “We are so grateful to our friends and neighbors in Ashfield and beyond for their generous...

By JOSHUA ROSE

’Tis the season of mistletoe, sort of. Mistletoe is evergreen, meaning it’s present year-round. However, winter is the season when we think about mistletoe most often.In the southeastern U.S., where I am writing this piece, mistletoe is hidden among...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

WHATELY — While winter’s warmest days remind us that our climate’s future could be bleak, the future generation reminds us that it may not have to be.Stephanie Apanell’s fourth grade class at Whately Elementary School joined forces with Amherst’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — As the town examines land around Exit 35 on Interstate 91, it is partnering with a local sustainable design school to take inventory of the environmental resources available.Members of Whately’s new Climate Resilience Planning Committee will...

By BILL DANIELSON

For the past couple weeks I have found myself grumbling during my mornings at the kitchen window.For some reason my yard has become popular with a flock of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and I am not at all pleased. The house sparrow is an...

By JACOB NELSON

With Agric Organics, Hameed Bello and his wife, Ayo, are intent on building an urban farm that can be a multi-faceted resource for their community in Wilbraham, supplying farm-fresh food, health and education while withstanding the challenges of...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

By AVIVA LUTTRELL

GREENFIELD — Forty years ago this week, the Blizzard of 1978 slammed New England, dumping as much as 30 inches of snow on Franklin County.Even as today’s messy storm took aim at New England, Ralph Gordon, 82, remembered the historic 1978 storm well....

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

ASHFIELD — After 14 years of research, Thomas Leue created and patented an oil burner that runs on unfiltered, used cooking oil and has about 98 percent less climate impact than burners using conventional heating oil, he says.And now the U.S....