Archive for the ‘Regional and Town Information’ Category

Franklin County is the northernmost of the three Massachusetts counties of the Pioneer Valley, and the most rural. The largest town is Greenfield (pop. 18,168 as of the 2000 census), but many towns have populations of…

Discuss the proposed Stop & Shop project in Easthampton, MA here!

Is Easthampton suffering growing pains, or simply moving in a needed direction? Will big box development change the downtown in ways no one wants, or provide necessary tax dollars and jobs? How does this type of development fit into the developing Master Plan…

Hampden County is the most populous and least rural of the three counties in the Pioneer Valley region, home to both Springfield (founded in 1643) and Holyoke (one of the first planned industrial cities). It was split off from Hampshire County in…

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from…

The Hitchcock Center for the Environment, located in Amherst, MA, offers natural history programs for both children and adults, as well as a resource center. Located in the Larch Hill conservation area, the trails and butterfly garden are open to the public during daytime hours.