On Saturday, June 12, at Deerfield’s Annual Town Meeting, the Planning Board will propose a bylaw that was first talked about a decade ago: the Formula-Based Business Bylaw. For formula (or chain) businesses with 10 or more locations, this bylaw.
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By Susan Shultz June 9, 2021 3:12 pm
In barely two hours from Greenwich, via tree-lined peaceful New England roads, you can travel back three hundred years to the “best documented small town in America.”
Historic Deerfield is welcoming any and all for its summer and fall season and best of all, kids under 17 are free to the historic museum through November.
Easily accessible, the town is within a 50 to 100 mile radius of Hartford, Albany, New Haven, Fairfield County, Springfield, and director of marketing Laurie Nivison would know.
She’s been commuting from her Connecticut home for nearly eight years.
“It’s a beautiful drive,” Nivison said.
Five years ago to the day, a dozen radio contest winners and a team of ghost hunters packed up their sleeping bags and spent a night in the banquet hall of The Whately Inn on Chestnut Plain Road in Whately.Although owner Stephen “Chip” Kloc wasn’t.
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Memorial Hall Museum to offer free admission to military personnel
DEERFIELD Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association’s Memorial Hall Museum will once again join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer.
The program, which started earlier this month, will continue through Sept. 6. “Like the resilience that military families demonstrate time and again, PVMA’s Memorial Hall Museum is an example of resiliency in the arts sector over the past year,” said Ann Eilers, acting chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. “We are grateful to PVMA’s Memorial Hall Museum for (its) leadership in strengthening community through (its) participation in the Blue Star Museums program this summer.”
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