RECORDER | Work at the Turners Falls Airport is back on track. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration is working with the three Native American tribes acting as consultants on the project, the Narragansett Indian Tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), to address their concerns about protecting and accessing sites [...]
By Mike Henry on Dec. 7th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Filed under: Turners Falls Municipal Airport
Keyword(s): Federal Aviation Administration, link, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Narragansett Indian Tribe, news, recorder, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
RECORDER | To sell or not to sell. That’s what Montague Town Clerk Debra Bourbeau is pondering, now that she has received cartons of hunting and fishing licenses from the state Department of Fish and Game for 2011. But because the state plans to start electronically withdrawing its permit fees weekly from town coffers next [...]
By Mike Henry on Dec. 6th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Filed under: Fishing
Keyword(s): debra bourbeau, Deerfield Town Clerk, fishing license, hunting license, link, Mary Stokarski, Montague Town Clerk, news, recorder, State Department of Fish and Game
RECORDER | It will be at least five years until the town can expect new life at the former Strathmore Paper Mill. Re-developing the Strathmore will take that much time to deal with complex issues like securing easements to access the site, improving access and getting rid of the debris left over from the 2007 [...]
By Mike Henry on Dec. 3rd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Filed under: Strathmore Paper Mill
Keyword(s): director of real estate development, Jeremy Wilkening, link, news, recorder, Somerville Community Corp, Strathmore Paper Mill, ULI, Urban Land Institute
RECORDER | When Ferd Wulkan was in high school, his best friend, Severin Drix, read an article in Life magazine about the game Tiddlywinks. Then, Wulkan, who now lives in Montague Center, had no idea what the words squidger, squop and winks meant. But, now, he doesn’t even have to think twice. The 1962-article detailed [...]
By Mike Henry on Sep. 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 am
Filed under: Events
Keyword(s): Cornell University, Ferd Wulkan, Life magazine, link, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Montague Center, news, North American Tiddlywinks Association, people of interest, recorder, Severin Drix, Tiddlywinks
RECORDER | The town’s Planning Board will begin its review tonight of a Connecticut developer’s plans to build a 135,000-square-foot discount department store. The board will hold a public hearing at 7 in the Greenfield Middle School auditorium. Full article here
By Mike Henry on Sep. 2nd, 2010 at 11:31 am
Filed under: French King Highway Big Box Debacle
Keyword(s): auditorium, big box store, Ceruzzi Inc., Conservation Commission, discount department store, french king highway, greenfield, Greenfield Middle School, link, ma, news, planning board, public hearing, recorder, traffic study, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc.
RECORDER | Too often government focuses on the short-term, like the next election or the next news cycle, Gov. Deval Patrick told a crowd of local officials and sixth- graders gathered in Town Hall on Monday morning. But funding Route 2 safety improvements is an example of governing with an eye toward the future, he [...]
By Mike Henry on Sep. 1st, 2010 at 11:46 am
Filed under: Road Work
Keyword(s): Deval Patrick, link, ma, news, orange, recorder, Route 2
RECORDER | Part treasure hunt, part history lesson, the Jurassic Road Show gave people from all over the area the chance to see just what might have been lurking in their backyards millions of years ago. The show at the Great Falls Discovery Center on Saturday allowed people to bring items to geologists, paleontologists and [...]
By Mike Henry on Aug. 30th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Filed under: Great Falls Discovery Center
Keyword(s): Jurassic Road Show, link, news, recorder, Turners Falls
RECORDER | A film crew spent most of the afternoon and all of Friday night filming, at a residence on a back road in Greenfield, what some on the set called a psychological thriller and others called a horror film. “The Woman,”‘ a sequel to “Offspring,” will target Sundance and many other film festivals, said [...]
By Mike Henry on Aug. 29th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Filed under: Attractions
Keyword(s): Andrew van den Houten, Bob Krzykowski, Chiller TV, film, greenfield, independent film, Independent Film Channel, Jack Ketchum, link, Lucky McKee, Moderncine, news, Offspring, recorder, Sundance film festival, The Woman, Turners Falls, Turners Falls High School
RECORDER | Plans a developer will present to the Planning Board on Thursday for a large discount department store on French King Highway include a 135,000-square-foot store with no garden center and a traffic study that estimates 8,250 additional vehicles on Greenfield streets during the week and 11,160 additional vehicles on Saturdays. Ceruzzi Inc. of [...]
By Mike Henry on Aug. 29th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Filed under: French King Highway Big Box Debacle
Keyword(s): big box store, Ceruzzi Inc., french king highway, Greenfield Middle School, link, news, recorder
RECORDER | After about three days of travel by airplane and boat, Chris Kilham arrived in the small village of Tupac in Peru. The village of little wooden shacks is situated on a riverbank near the Rio Pisqui. The slope down to the river is steep and surrounding the village is the forest, filled with [...]
By Mike Henry on Aug. 27th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Filed under: Foraging
Keyword(s): Chris Kilham, leverett, link, medical plants, medicine hunter, Medicine Hunter Inc., news, Peru, plant-based medicines, recorder, Rio Pisqui, Village of Tupac
