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By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Planning Board kicked off the special permitting process for a proposed “cannabis campus” on Monday, as SunnyDayz Inc. presented the initial plan for its three-building site.The company, which signed a host community agreement with the...

On Jan. 23, 76-year-old Ellen Gilland fatally shot her terminally ill husband while he lay in his hospital bed in Daytona Beach, Florida as part of a murder-suicide pact. Mrs. Gilland was arrested and charged with first degree murder. This tragic and...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — In its first virtual meeting since forming, the Tilton Library Building Committee and its architect laid out an estimated timeline for the $12.3 million expansion and renovation project’s design and construction, with a projected...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

GREENFIELD – Size didn’t matter much to the Greenfield boys basketball team Tuesday against Frontier Regional.The Green Wave controlled the Hampshire League South matchup from the opening tip in a 73-45 victory at Nichols Gymnasium despite giving up a...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Newell Brands, the parent company of Yankee Candle, announced the closure of the South Deerfield corporate offices on Monday citing the need to adjust to “the reality of the economic environment,”In a letter from Newell Brands CEO...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ grant paperwork signed, the town has appointed a Library Building Committee and is seeking a temporary location for Tilton Library materials and operations for when construction begins...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — As the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts continue the diversity, equity and inclusion work that started three years ago, they are prepared to undergo an “equity audit” to examine how it can provide an equitable...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Each year, the graduating senior girls of Frontier Regional School would walk across the street to join Principal Martha “Marti” Barrett for a traditional tea time at her home.“She used to invite the graduating girls to her house for...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With the School Committee’s approval, Frontier Regional School will undertake more than $1.2 million in capital projects over the next two years.The School Committee unanimously approved the appropriation of $850,000 to rehabilitate...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Three years after they began looking for a site that could accommodate their rapidly growing polyurethane manufacturing business in Deerfield and Whately, officials at Nupro LLC hit pay dirt only a few miles up the road.Now the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After 15 years at its location on Routes 5 and 10, Hillside Pizza is consolidating its original Deerfield operation into its Yankee Candle location.Sunday, Aug. 22, is the original location’s final day and the Yankee Candle store’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Hamshaw Lumber Inc. has acquired Leader Home Centers’ five retail locations and will be transitioning those stores over the next month.The Keene, N.H.-based lumber company, which already has a location in Orange, has purchased Leader Home Centers,...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Charlton-based Tree House Brewing has been given the go-ahead it needs to begin its first phase of opening at the former Channing Bete Co. building on Routes 5 and 10.The three special permits that the Deerfield Zoning Board of...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Charlton-based Tree House Brewing announced Friday that it plans to open a new location next year at the site of the former Channing Bete Co. on Routes 5 and 10.“Tree House will open an expansive, beautifully located facility in...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A brewery with roots in Connecticut has found its way to South Deerfield.Powder Hollow Brewery, which opened its flagship location in Enfield, Connecticut in 2014, opened its doors to customers last week at its new location at Yankee...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — For the first time in months, Samantha Daviau felt like she could finally take a breath.Her father, Richard Daviau, owner of Damn Yankees BBQ on Elm Street in South Deerfield, was released from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield...

By DOMENIC POLI

LEVERETT — Michael J. Kittredge II, whose homemade candle as a cash-strapped teenager evolved into an industry giant, has died. He was 67.Kittredge, founder of the Yankee Candle Co., died Wednesday evening at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY – Production of wax and wicks in town is expected to increase starting in the fall, when Chesapeake Bay Candle’s operations move from Maryland to the Whately plant that manufactures Yankee Candles.Chesapeake Bay Candle and Yankee Candle are...

By DOMENIC POLI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Channing Bete Company expects to cease operations June 30, the South Deerfield publisher announced Tuesday.The first position eliminations will come June 24, and most employees will be released between June 24 and July 3,...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — Five runs in the first inning, including a three-run home run from Luke Leonard, helped Amherst beat Frontier 9-1 in the first game of the double-elimination Mickey Mantle baseball playoffs Tuesday.With the score 2-0 after Amherst had hit...