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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and MADISON SCHOFIELD

Thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Office of Environmental Justice and Equity, Franklin County organizations will receive 21 of the total 213 air quality sensors being distributed statewide to help protect public health and fill in gaps in local...

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 – An Amherst family was abruptly awakened at 2:30 a.m. the morning of Sunday, Aug. 25, to see several vehicle driving in their direction as they slept in the Bearsden Conservation Area.“We had reserved one of the campgrounds in Bearsden, called...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – A series of trails have been badly damaged by off-road vehicles and required significant repair work, according to the Conservation Commission.Over the weekend of Aug. 24, the persons involved – ignoring a prohibition on ATVs and side-by-sides...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

ATHOL — In an effort to promote awareness of native plants, the Athol Bird and Nature Club [ABNC] has installed artwork identifying native plants to enhance the existing Join Up Trail at the New England Equestrian Center of Athol (NEECA).“Lifelong...

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 GREG VINE

PETERSHAM – Officials are eager to hear from residents at a Saturday forum on what priorities they think should be included in an updated Open Space and Recreation Plan.The meeting will take place on Feb. 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the lower level of Town...

By MARY BYRNE

TURNERS FALLS — Each year, students from across the state, including in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region, are recognized by their respective superintendents for their academic achievement and community involvement.The annual award is...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — With campsites at the Mohawk Trail State Forest closed due to water system and infrastructure repairs, park rangers have been enjoying the glory of this state gem with more solitude than in previous years.“I have been getting people to...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – Flora Majumder, age 88, enjoys taking a 20-minute walk every day. Where she lives — at Lathrop Retirement Community in Easthampton — paths, trails and exercise classes that accommodate the use of a cane or walker are plentiful.But, due...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Months after Gov. Maura Healey’s initial budget proposal showed a moderate increase to rural school aid, that line item has nearly tripled in the approved budget, in what area administrators say is a step in the right direction toward equitable...

By GREG VINE

ROYALSTON – Representatives of the North Quabbin Trails Association met with Royalston’s Selectboard Tuesday night and enthusiastically pitched options for rehabilitating the King Street Bridge. The bridge, built in 1937, sits just off Blossom Street...

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...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL — The next step in the redevelopment of the Rabbit Run Rail Trail will take place on Tuesday.A meeting of the Open Space and Recreation Review Committee will be held at Town Hall in room 21 at 4:30 p.m. and also shown via Zoom. During this...

By CAROLE GARIEPY

PHILLIPSTON — In 2006, Craig Twohey and his son Ryan, an Eagle Scout, hiked at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, an experience that inspired them to talk about hiking the Appalachian Trail together after Craig and his wife, Jean, sold the King...

By Max Bowen

ATHOL — Up until two weeks ago, getting over the Lower Kendall Brook Crossing at Ben and Susie Feldman’s Cutthroat Brook Tree Farm required some rather impressive balancing skills.But through a combination of hard work and community support, two new...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Athol’s Open Space and Recreation Commission voted to support an application submitted by the town’s Planning Department for a MassTrails grant to fund improvements to the Bearsden Conservation Area. A draft of the letter was provided by...