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By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Representatives of Howard Stein Hudson Engineering met with Athol’s Open Space and Recreation Commission last week to go over what will be in the designs of the Rabbit Run Rail Trail’s first phase.This phase calls for about a mile of trail...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – The first steps toward creation of the 6.2-mile long Rabbit Run Rail Trail are about to be taken.The Town of Athol recently announced that it had received a $275,000 MassTrails grant and is contributing a match of nearly $69,000, bringing the...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Planning and Development Director Eric Smith went before the Open Space and Recreation Commission on Tuesday to announce that he has applied for a MassTrails that would allow the town to start work on the proposed Rabbit Run Rail Trail. When...

By MADDIE FABIAN

By the end of this decade, if not sooner, bicyclists will be able to hop on the rail trail at the J. Elwell Conservation Area in Northampton, cross the Connecticut River, and travel across the state 104 miles on the same path all the way to Boston.As...

By MADDIE FABIAN

BOSTON — A new interactive Priority Trails Network vision map created by the Massachusetts Trails Team (MassTrails), an interagency government collaboration, provides a centralized account of key shared-use rail trail projects across the state,...

By Greg Vine

ATHOL – Representatives of Howard Stein Hudson Associates, a Boston-based planning and engineering firm, have presented a final technical/feasibility memorandum for the proposed Rabbit Run Rail Trail.The trail would run for 6.2 miles from the New...