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By PAIGE HANSON

Around 15 years ago, Frank Popkiewicz was in Aroostook County, Maine when he found a stone face down into the Earth, in a shape that he thought resembled a bear.Since finding that stone, Popkiewicz’s interest in stones and rocks has only increased...

By RUTH LEAHEY

 I didn’t attend the June 18 Whately Town Meeting for several reasons, including the high temperatures outside and having compromised health. However, I read the news coverage and listened to many townspeople [“Solo ZIP code, Gaza peace petitions...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — After receiving the go-ahead in March to look at a town-owned solution to the vacant Whately Center School, a town committee has hit the ground running to secure funding for work on the building.In a report to the Selectboard Tuesday, Judy...

Historical Society presenting ‘Love’s Sweet Afterglow: History of Death and Mourning’ CONWAY — The Conway Historical Society’s summer exhibit invites the public to learn about the changing experiences of public and private loss, commemoration and...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — With the sun shining, summer tunes playing and floral shirts galore, Herlihy Park met the beach day theme the South County Senior Center selected for its annual picnic on Wednesday.The annual picnic serves as one of the Senior Center’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — With taxes unpaid as of Tuesday evening, the Selectboard has opted to reinstate the police detail requirement at Club Castaway for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.The decision at Tuesday’s Selectboard meeting came after the club’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — On Feb. 2, 1847, Dr. Myron Harwood and his wife Judith welcomed their daughter Mary Eliza into the world.Unfortunately, the sixth of eight children was not meant to be, as just six short weeks later, the newborn, like many in that period,...

By SHERYL HUNTER

In 2020, the Nashville-based bluegrass band Sister Sadie accomplished what no all-female bluegrass band had ever done: They won the International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainer of the Year award. That honor is only one of the many bestowed on...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Along with the 29 town-submitted articles, citizen’s petitions about having a single ZIP code for the town, a resolution to end the war in Gaza and lowering the municipal voting age were all approved at Whately’s Annual Town Meeting.Over two...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Voters will be asked to consider a $6.4 million budget for fiscal year 2025 and a slew of capital projects at Annual Town Meeting.The meeting will be held outside Whately Elementary School on Tuesday, June 18, at 6 p.m. The $6.4 million...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Selectboard Chair Fred Baron emerged victorious in Tuesday’s election, defeating political newcomer Joshua Harris in the town’s only contested race on the ballot, 205-109.Voter turnout was 30.8%, as 325 of the town’s 1,055 registered voters...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Club Castaway can continue to operate without a police detail on Thursdays for at least two more weeks, while the Selectboard considers dropping the Thursday night requirement on a more long-term basis.The board has been easing the strip...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Following a litany of alleged violations of a 2023 order and conditions on a dangerous dog, the Selectboard ordered that its owner cannot license a dog in Massachusetts for five years.With Police Chief James Sevigne Jr. laying out “numerous...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With a grant extension in hand, the Deerfield Selectboard has selected edmSTUDIO, a Unionville, Connecticut-based architecture firm, to conduct a feasibility study to help the South County Senior Center determine an optimal site for...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Selectboard Chair Fred Baron is facing a challenge from political newcomer but longtime Pioneer Valley resident Joshua Harris in the only contested race on Tuesday’s election ballot.Polls will be open at Town Hall from 10 a.m. to 8...

Friends of Deerfield and Deerfield 350th Committee burying time capsule SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Friends of Deerfield and the town’s 350th Committee are burying a 350th anniversary time capsule on Saturday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. at the South Deerfield...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Thanks to a Massachusetts Department of Transportation grant, the South County Senior Center will one day be able to say it has a fleet of vehicles.The regional senior center serving Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately received $90,800 to...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With so much happening in the world — a pandemic, wars and countless other issues at home and abroad — it’s natural to want to block out the noise, but Congressman Jim McGovern urged the 96 Frontier Regional School graduates Friday...

I, as the coordinator of the event and the people who helped, am blown away with the expert Memorial Day weekend coverage and photography your newspaper did. Thank you!In a brief conversation with local photographer Christopher Evans, I explained I...