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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

By RUTH SMITH

Winter is a wonderful time to get out and enjoy the natural world. When I do, I often encounter old stone walls in the woods. These relics of our region’s history tell many stories about past inhabitants and current residents of the landscape.The...

With the autumnal equinox behind us, daylight hours will be surpassed by darkness from now until mid-March. For many of us, this means reduced time for outdoor activities, but for nocturnal animals it expands the time when they have an advantage over...