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A great blue heron watches over two chicks among the sticks of its nest in Northfield.

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PHOTO: Protective parent

by Staff Report July 6, 2021

A parent goose keeps an eye on traffic as the young ones feed on grasses growing around the parking lot at Market Basket in Athol.

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PHOTO: Keeping a watchful eye

by Staff Report June 29, 2021

A mallard pair swims among flowering lilies in Silver Lake in Athol on Monday.

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Photo: Paddling mallards

by Staff Report June 24, 2021

The North Quabbin Trails Association, and husband and wife Ben and Susie Feldman, were given the Innovation Award by the Greater Athol Area Advocates for Families with Special Needs in recognition of the trails association’s “longtime dedication to developing solutions to community concerns in partnership with others in the North Quabbin area.” The award will be displayed at the Feldmans’ Cutthroat Brook Tree Farm in Athol, next to an enlarged and redesigned trail map.

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North Quabbin Trails Association takes stewardship of Tully Trail in Orange

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterJune 15, 2021

Warwick has received a $20,000 Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund matching grant to develop a pavilion and amphitheater at the former Warwick Community School property, pictured.

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Grant funding boosts pavilion plans at Warwick Community School

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterMay 21, 2021

The late Karl Quackenbush and Nancy Harnden of Warwick pictured on Mount Tecumseh in New Hampshire in summer 2019. Warwick is renaming the Hockanum Hill overlook trail in Quackenbush’s honor.

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‘Karl Quackenbush Trail’ in Warwick named in honor of late local outdoorsman

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterMay 16, 2021

A proposed trail map for the 25-acre Warwick Community School campus.

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Educational trail plan approved for Warwick Community School campus

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterMay 6, 2021

The former Warwick Community School campus and adjacent Mount Grace State Park will be the site of a Summer Recreation and Arts Program being created through a partnership between the town and Antioch University of Keene, N.H.

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Warwick secures funding for Antioch University partnership to create summer program

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterApril 16, 2021

The storybook trail at Green Karma Farm in Orange for the month of April features “When, Grandpa, When?” by Orange resident Terry Bouchard.

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‘Storybook trails’ popping up across Franklin County, North Quabbin region

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterApril 2, 2021

The Franklin Regional Council of Governments is continuing to work with eight local communities — highlighted in green on the map — on its Regional Pollinator Habitat Corridor Action Plan. Two upcoming planning workshops, which will be public meetings with Orange and Montague, will take place virtually next week.

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FRCOG to host pollinator workshops for Orange, Montague

by Zack DeLuca Staff WriterMarch 31, 2021