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My Turn: Quabbin region will never see any bounty
05-12-2024 4:44 PM

By MIKE MAGEE

 Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Never again should the residents of the Quabbin region be fooled into believing that they will see any benefits from the Quabbin Reservoir.In the 1930s, the state took the entire towns of...

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A cartoonist’s cartoonist: Florence’s Hilary Price won the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society
10-04-2024 2:05 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Cartoonist Hilary Price, who lives in Florence, won the 2023 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society, in August of this year.Price draws the comic “Rhymes with Orange,” which is syndicated...


Baseball: Smith Academy can't overcome early deficit in 13-6 loss to Mahar
04-15-2024 8:14 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

ORANGE — The Mahar baseball team couldn’t have asked for a better first inning on Monday against Smith Academy. After Sam Connors shut down the Falcons in the top of the frame, it didn’t take the Senator bats long to get going when it was their turn...


Global coffee nonprofit appoints Dean’s Beans CEO to board
02-07-2024 4:09 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Women’s empowerment has long been one of the missions of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. So having its CEO serve on the board of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance is likely a natural fit.Beth Spong was recently appointed to the board...


Valley Bounty: New horizons for a small dairy farm: O’Brien Farm in Orange opts to strategize, not pasteurize
01-26-2024 12:39 PM

By JACOB NELSON

‘We do a little bit of everything,” says Andrea O’Brien of O’Brien Farm in Orange. “But mostly we milk cows.”Running a successful dairy farm requires commitment, perseverance and creativity. That’s especially true in recent times, as the costs of...


DA’s office: Court case backlog in Mass not an issue in Franklin, Hampshire counties
12-22-2023 5:01 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

The backlog plaguing courthouses across much of the state seems to have spared Franklin and Hampshire counties, where the Northwestern district attorney’s office put many cases to bed while in-person jury trials were suspended during the COVID-19...


A big cup of co-op: After 30 years, Dean’s Beans in Orange to become worker-owned
05-17-2023 9:24 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Change is brewing at Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co., which is set to become a worker-owned cooperative on July 1.Dean Cycon founded the business in 1993 and, having recently turned 70, is ready to hand the reins to his 16 employees.“Who...


Luxury cars, confiscated in wake of Pelham arrest, bring top dollar at auction
06-10-2022 6:58 PM

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ORANGE — Twenty-nine high-end vehicles, most of which once belonged to a New Salem man arrested in August 2020 and found dead in an abandoned Holyoke warehouse two months later, were auctioned off at Orange Municipal Airport on June 4, generating...


New Hampshire-based lumber company buys Leader Home Centers
06-30-2021 8:28 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

Hamshaw Lumber Inc. has acquired Leader Home Centers’ five retail locations and will be transitioning those stores over the next month.The Keene, N.H.-based lumber company, which already has a location in Orange, has purchased Leader Home Centers,...


Wendell man gets life without parole for killing girlfriend in 2017
04-17-2019 11:02 AM

By DAVID McLELLAN

GREENFIELD — Lewis H. Starkey III was handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole Tuesday for the 2017 killing of Amanda Glover, in what prosecutors called a “classic” case of domestic violence.The 55-year-old was also sentenced to 10 to...


Prosecutors: Wendell man killed woman in front of her son
07-10-2017 8:22 PM

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

ORANGE — A Wendell man who authorities say shot and killed the woman he lived with in front of her son was ordered held without bail Monday on multiple charges Lewis H. Starkey III, 53, of Wendell was arraigned Monday on charges of murder, armed...


Defense seeks to suppress information in Orange double murder case
06-30-2017 12:29 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A hearing on a motion to suppress information has been scheduled in the case of an Athol couple accused of a double homicide in Orange last year.The hearing is scheduled to start Sept. 25, and the trial is slated for April 2018.Joshua...


Controversial Quabbin rattlesnake restoration plan suspended
04-20-2017 8:18 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

BELCHERTOWN — The state’s plan to release timber rattlesnakes on an island in the Quabbin Reservoir is on hold indefinitely following a Fisheries and Wildlife Board vote Tuesday morning.This comes as welcome news for local residents and legislators...


Rite of spring: Schoolchildren help stock Quabbin for anglers
04-14-2017 8:23 AM

By JACK SUNTRUP

ORANGE — Rodney Flagg sat under a lamp at the front of his bait and tackle shop tying up a batch of Winnie Squid flies. Every so often, the front door squeaked open, and a fisherman walked in.“That time of year!” one told Flagg, 79. The angler would...


Orange murder suspects indicted in Superior Court
12-20-2016 12:45 AM

ORANGE — A Franklin Superior Court grand jury has indicted Joshua Hart, 24, and Brittany Smith, 27, on murder and other charges in connection with the Oct. 5 home invasion and killing of Thomas Harty and attempted murder of his wife, Joanna...

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