Orange Selectboard orders dog rehomed

My Turn: The beauty of dishonesty

Perhaps it is only natural for one to wade gently into the waters of reflection when they exit a particular place. Seeing as this writer will be vacating the commonwealth at the end of the month for mountains greener and (hopefully) less polluted, the three years spent as a Greenfield resident have been far from […]

Orange Council on Aging suspends van service

ORANGE — The Council on Aging voted unanimously to suspend its van service, citing a lack of demand and no driver. The agency acquired the van earlier this year with the help of a $25,000 Massachusetts Councils on Aging grant as well as $20,000 from the final will and testament of Orange resident Thalma A. […]

Pumpkin waffles: An ever-evolving recipe

I am certain I’m not the only person around who changes recipes frequently. Somehow or other, when I decide to make something, I often end up thinking about it for some time … and then going off on a tangent and making something different. This week’s recipe is an example. My friend Jennifer Rich told […]

From Manhattan to Leverett: Massive painting emerges from storage to find a home in historic sawmill

LEVERETT — From her 10th-floor home and studio on lower Manhattan’s Murray Street in the 1980s, Susan Mareneck began creating a large, five-panel oil-on-linen painting of the neighborhood just blocks from the World Trade Center. “River to River II,” painted while Mareneck divided her time between New York City and Leverett, is her interpretation of the view from her city home. It is built from layers of brushstrokes that she says help develop its tonality. The piece depicts the reality of her surroundings, from the tops of the trees in the neighboring City Hall Park and the windows of the adjacent […]

Crafting 'visible acts of love': Pumpkin carving continues to honor Summer Steele 10 years after her death

Ten years after the death of 9-year-old Summer Steele, the Shelburne Falls community gathered to carve heart-shaped pumpkins in her memory while her mother continues to advocate for school bus safety legislation.