Ashfield Plain News Today

Wednesday, Oct. 27, was Norm Nye’s 95th birthday, and he’s happy to report that he is now officially closer to being 100 than he is to 90.Norm isn’t the oldest person in town; Mary Leue holds that title by six years, but he doesn’t mind. There’s no...

I’m sitting on the front steps of the Ashfield Historical Society, the building that housed one of the town’s first stores. Gad Wait was its proprietor and you can see the indentation on the building where his sign hung.While I haven’t heard the Wait...