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Dog friend, police and firefighters save dog in Orange

ORANGE — Police and firefighters rescued a small dog Tuesday morning after he became stuck and his canine companion went → Read More

Richard Nadolski passes the tiller, sets out to sea

GREENFIELD — Richard Nadolski has run the Green River House since before there was a house to run. He is → Read More

Passing of the torch at Montague Center Fire a family affair

MONTAGUE CENTER — The Montague Center Fire Department swore in a new chief Sunday for the first time in decades, → Read More

YMCA’s challenge winner proves ‘exercise is medicine’

New Year’s resolutions tend to be made and abandoned, but Millie Ruiz of Greenfield will begin the new year with → Read More

Addiction year in review, deaths and gains

“What a painful, painful year, and I think we’re still grieving. It’s been a year unparalleled in the nature of → Read More

Orange hopes 2016 is a ‘year of action’

ORANGE — Kathy Reinig of the Board of Selectmen hopes this will be the year the town checks some things → Read More

Accused arsonist to await possible superior court trial in jail

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield man charged with setting fire to a house where his ex-girlfriend and her father slept is → Read More

Group grieves together for loved ones lost to overdoses

GREENFIELD — Whichever you celebrate, the holidays are a time for family, but in Franklin County as elsewhere, more and → Read More

Accused arsonist faces detention hearing Thursday

The Greenfield man accused of arson and attempted murder in Montague Center is due back in Greenfield District Court on → Read More

Alice Parker Carol Sing draws crowd for leader’s 90th

CHARLEMONT — On yet another drab, rainy and unseasonably warm day in December and with the Christmas rush over, more → Read More

No snow? No sweat: Winter recreation destinations say they’ve seen it all before

The snow isn’t there, but local ski areas aren’t shaking at this point in the season. Berkshire East Mountain Resort → Read More

Second-home for the holidays: Orange man’s former foreign-exchange students visit for Christmas

ORANGE — Christmas is a time for family, and Clifford Fournier has a lot of people who call him dad. The → Read More

Baby Jesus stolen from Greenfield manger ... again

GREENFIELD — The baby doll representing Jesus in the Nativity scene on the Town Common was taken for a third → Read More

Mohawk grads talk college

SHELBURNE FALLS — The value of time management, discipline, laundry, and Advanced Placement classes were the main lessons a panel → Read More

A glance at the season of giving

GREENFIELD — The Salvation Army’s bell-ringing volunteers have been out in all weather, but this month’s unseasonably warm weather rain → Read More

87-year-old charged with holding gun to man’s head in Deerfield bar

DEERFIELD — A Deerfield octogenarian faces charges for allegedly pointing a pistol at another bar patron’s head, in defense of → Read More

Vermont pair charged with heroin trafficking after Bernardston arrest

BERNARDSTON — Two Vermont residents face heroin charges after a traffic stop for defective license plate lights ended with the → Read More

Away from the manger, again

GREENFIELD — A few days shy of Christmas, someone has yet again stolen the baby Jesus from the nativity scene → Read More

Less white this Christmas, still dreaming of a green one

GREENFIELD — The trees are moving. Macbeth would be terrified. Until the last several days the season hadn’t changed noticeably → Read More

Doc done after 5 decades, 5,000 babies: Dr. William Callahan to retire Dec. 31

GREENFIELD — Dr. William E. Callahan may have delivered you. “I’ve delivered, or been involved with, over 5,000 babies → Read More