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In this July 2016 photo, Edward Morrissey talks with Bill Bisbee, right, at Bisbee Mill Museum in Chesterfield. Bisbee died Sunday.

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Chesterfield icon Bill Bisbee dies at 92

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteMarch 21, 2018

On March 25, the Hilltown Eco-Action Group will present the award-winning film “Chasing Coral” at the Chesterfield Community Center.

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Hilltown Voices: Hilltown Eco-Action Group to show award-winning film ‘Chasing Coral’

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteMarch 18, 2018

This photo, from the Goshen Fire and Rescue Meltdown Contest page, shows the meltdown flag that marks a 69-pound cement block on Hammond Pond.

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Hilltown Voices: Center offers free diabetes prevention classes; Meltdown tickets for sale

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteMarch 12, 2018

Floyd Merritt of Goshen, left, and Ralmon Black discuss a potash kettle that has been on Merritt’s farm for generations, in this undated photo. Black wrote a treatise on the potash industry in New England that is still, years later, almost the only published writing on a product that was of crucial importance to the first European settlers in the region.

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Williamsburg storyteller, historian Ralmon Black dies at 78

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteMarch 7, 2018

Dennis Picard, a historian who lives in Westfield, boils maple sap into syrup during “Maple Days at the Old Homestead” last March at the William Cullen Bryant Homestead in Cummington.

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Hilltown Voices: Committee seeks project manager for Williamsburg Public Safety Complex

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteMarch 6, 2018

Hilltown residents will have a chance in early March to learn about the art of grafting and orchard management.

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Community-based newsletter grows from zip to 6,000 subscribers

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteFebruary 25, 2018

Alisha Pouliot,17 of Westfield, sprays a lacquer finish on some brackets during shop at Smith Vocational.

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Smith College forum focuses on women in construction

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteFebruary 16, 2018

Becky Butler slices and wraps cheese that is aged and then sold in the Huntington Country Store. The Butlers intend to sell the building that houses the store and close the business.

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Huntington Country Store building up for sale

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteFebruary 15, 2018

Liza Fuentes, a senior research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, addresses about 100 people gathered in the Red Barn at Hampshire College in Amherst on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, for an Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts program marking the 45th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the United States.

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Abortion Rights Fund celebrates 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteFebruary 12, 2018

Northampton native Kate Miller, center, now of Oregon; Betsy McNamara, left, of Amherst; and Nancy Jessup of Northampton, right, play the second of their three games of Scrabble during an event presented by the Northampton Scrabble Club at American Legion Post 28 in Northampton on Saturday to benefit three local charities: the Northampton Survival Center, Cancer Connection and Climate Action Now.

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Northampton Scrabble Club hosts charity event

by Fran Ryan For the GazetteFebruary 11, 2018