Later this month on Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18, the Mass West Home & Better Living Show is coming to Amherst, Massachusetts. With spring on its way, now is a great time to head to the show and get some new ideas for your home. The show will feature regional companies exhibiting products and [...]

The Artspace Community Arts Center is holding its annual ‘Pottery and More Seconds Sale’ on March 2-3, at the Greenfield High School on Lenox Avenue in Greenfield, Mass. Find great savings on pottery, glass, wood products, jewerly and more! Plenty of free parking is available. Hours are Friday from 6-9pm and Saturday 10am-2pm.

Robert Cohn, owner/broker of Cohn & Company Real Estate, is the newly elected chairman to the Greenfield Community College board of trustees. Mr. Cohn has been involved with the college since he was a student in the early 1970′s, and soon thereafter, he became the first alumni to serve on the board of trustees. In 1989 he became [...]

Mary Lou Emond, GRI, CBR, CRS, SRES has earned Cohn & Company’s highest honor of Top Producer for 2011. Mary Lou has been an award winning agent with Cohn & Company and the Realtor Association of Pioneer Valley every year thoughout her career in real estate. She is a long time member of the Professional [...]

Greenfield’s 90th annual Winter Carnival will take place this weekend, February 3-5 with events at Beacon Field and other locations around town. Commemorative winter carnival buttons are available for $5 and will entitle purchasers to discounts in many local businesses during the carnival weekend. All proceeds will go directly to support the carnival. The winter carnival has always been a [...]

Looking for a tasty way to warm up on a cold winter day? The “Great Chili Cook Off” will be held 4-7pm this Sunday, January 29, at the Warfield House in Charlemont. Kim Blakeslee, one of the event coordinators, said there is usually 10 -12 chili entrees all competeing for 3 prizes – “most unique”, “spiciest” and “most original”. Enjoy the [...]

Greenfield, Massachusetts recently hired Ellen Boyer of Burlington, Vermont as its new library director. Boyer joins the Greenfield Public Library on February 6. Boyer has a solid background in library directorship having worked most recently as the director of the Mark Skinner Library in Manchester, Vermont. She has a master’s degree in library and information science from [...]

2011 was a year to remember (or forget!) with a hurricane, a tornado and the Halloween snowstorm all bringing much damage and many down trees in the area. Now is the time to start burning those piles of brush you’ve gathered around your yard as the 2012 Massachusetts brush burning season begins on Sunday, January 15 and will run through [...]

Greenfield, Massachusetts school and town officials are moving forward with preserving and renovating part of the current Greenfield high school building (built in 1957), and adding a new structure designed with flexible classroom space for 21st century learning. The school’s building committee has reviewed design options and hope to renovate the existing 1,000 seat auditorium and build [...]

You may have been reading about schools in the last year. On how students in school systems in various countries spend more time in school, as the foundation of anyone’s life starts in kindergarten in terms of schooling. In Korea, students spend more hours each day in class and more months/weeks per year in school. [...]