Sunderland Elementary School has received an Exemplary Program Award for their helping students walk, bike, and roll to school safely.

The Staten Island man charged in the Virginia bus crash that resulted in the death of a Greenfield family is now facing new charges; three additional felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving.

The major housing development proposed for the Kittredge estate in Leverett will not be moving forward.

71 residents came to Wendell’s Annual Town Meeting on Saturday where the citizen’s petition for a resolution to make Wendell an apartheid-free community was defeated 13 to 40.

Hawlemont Regional School graduate Landon Clark has been elected President of the regional Western Massachusetts Association of Student Councils.

On Sunday afternoon, a two vehicle accident occurred at the intersection of Route 202 and 122 in Orange.

Franklin County is home to 43 of the 128 farms that were awarded grants totaling $270,000 through the Grinspoon Foundation

Last month emergency responders were dispatched to a logging accident in Athol, where the patient was LifeFlighted after being injured while in a tree.