It’s the second annual Hampshire Hills scarecrow contest Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: DON CONKEY HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – None of them spoke a word. None of them moved an inch. None of them did anything. Anything at all. And, yet, they spoke volumes and demonstrated everything that is special about the unique place that is […]
Source: Boston Globe Author: Judith Gaines, Globe Staff PLAINFIELD, MA – Time was when a scarecrow did what it was supposed to do: It guarded the season’s crops from marauding birds and other hungry pests. But in what may be a sign of the times, many of these traditional harvest harbingers are turning their attention to […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CUMMINGTON, MA – Cummington is the first town in Hampshire County to formally accept the state police as their dispatching agents for the Enhanced-911 emergency response phone system being developed in the state by New England Telephone. “I think we will probably end up being the spearhead of the system. […]