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Busier than usual: Farms, farmers’ markets adjusted to pandemic in 2020 Peter Kretzenger of Turners Falls, right, makes a sale at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Jeff Kingsbury of Kingsbury Farms in Deerfield selling fruit and vegetables at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ ....
Editorial: Monday Shorts: Raptors redeemed Tom Ricardi releases a barred owl in Deerfield last Wednesday. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Published: 3/7/2021 3:27:08 PM Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. For readers of this paper, it was a familiar story immortalized by Photo Editor Paul Franz’s pictures of rehabilitated raptors taking tentative steps out of their cages, testing their wings, circling the clearing, perhaps alighting in a tree and soon lost to sight of Tom Ricardi, 81, who had nursed them back to health. For 20 years, Ricardi and Dr. Robert Schmitt of the South Deerfield Veterinary Clinic have answered a calling to give injured eagles, owls, hawks and vultures a second chance at life. ....
Mahar seniors trying to ‘Revamp the Rims’ at Butterfield Park in Orange Five seniors at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School want to rehabilitate the basketball court in Butterfield Park. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ A diagram of Double Rims, the basketball court at Butterfield Park on East River Street in Orange. Five seniors at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School want to rehabilitate the court in an honors project called “Revamp the Rims.” SCREENSHOT Modified: 3/2/2021 4:28:23 PM ORANGE Five Ralph C. Mahar Regional School seniors are taking a shot at a competitive state grant to rehabilitate Butterfield Park’s basketball court across from the bandstand. ....
ORANGE Five Ralph C. Mahar Regional School seniors are taking a shot at a competitive state grant to rehabilitate Butterfield Park’s basketball court across from the bandstand.Abigail Henne, Siobhan Davis, Hannah Dupont and Christopher Vezina Jr.. ....
Butterfield Park Residents play a game of pick-up hockey at the new skating rink in Orange s Butterfield Park on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. Recorder File Photo/Micky Bedell Published: 3/1/2021 3:33:34 PM Modified: 3/1/2021 3:33:32 PM Butterfield Park is a community gem in the center of Orange. The park’s beginnings were centered around the ballfield, with the land originally owned by the Butterfield family. Pamela Almira Butterfield passed away on Jan. 13, 1894. The town was given the option of purchasing the field from the estate on Sept. 29, 1906. The purchase was made with the understanding the land would always remain a park. The park throughout the years has provided a space for many activities for the town. These include providing the Orange Peals, an Orange semi-pro baseball league, with a field to play on. ....