AWARDS

• New England Newspaper and Press Assn. First Place, Personality Profile 2017: ‘Being Seen for Who You Are is Such a Deep Need’

• New England Newspaper and Press Assn. First Place, Business reporting 2016: Popular Culture (yogurt) series

• NE Newspaper and Press Association Second Place, Science and Technology reporting 2014: Politics and climate change

• NE Press Association Third Place, Feature writing, 2013: Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth Turns 50

• NE Press Association ThirdPlace, Transportation reporting 2013: Transit Center in Motion

• NE Press Association First Place, Racial or ethnic reporting 2012: Deerfield slavery

• NE Press AssociationThird Place, Historical reporting 2012: Auschwitz retreat

• AP (New England) Second Place, Overall agricultural reporting 2011

• AP (New England) Second Place, feature writing 2011: ‘Blossoming’

• AP (New England) First Place, Overall agricultural reporting 2010

• AP (New England) First Place, Business reporting 2010: Labor Day Layoffs

• AP (New England) Third Place, Agricultural feature writing 2010: Dairy farm profile - John Wholey

• NE PRESS ASSN, Second Place, Education writing 2012 : Linden Hill School

• AP (New England) First Place Series 2009: “Going Gray: Boomers and the Coming Crunch”

• AP (New England) First Place, Overall agricultural reporting 2009

• AP (New England) Third Place, Arts feature writing 2009: David Amram

• NE PRESS ASSN, Second Place, Arts feature writing 2009: Words as Wings

• NE PRESS ASSN, Third Place, Transportation feature writing 2009: The Vermonter (Railroad)

• NE PRESS ASSN, First Place, Environmental series 2008, Greening of Franklin County

• NE PRESS ASSN, Second Place, Arts feature writing 2008: Steven Schoenberg

• NE PRESS ASSN, Third Place, Business series 2008: “Farm Futures”

• NE PRESS ASSN, Finalist, Journalist of the Year 2007

• NE PRESS ASSN, First Place, Business series 2007:“Feeding a Dream”

• NE PRESS ASSN, Third Place, Religion series 2007: “Time of Faith”

• NE PRESS ASSN, First Place, Business series 2006, “E-Cottage Industries”

• NE PRESS ASSN, Second Place, History feature writing 2006: The Cummington Story

• AP (New England), Third Place, Enterprise series 2005: Shelburne Falls in Flux

• AP (New England) First Place *, Historical series 2004: Greenfield at 250

• AP (National): Finalist, Community Service* 1999: “Living on the Brink”

• AP (New England): Second Place, community service* 1999: “Living on the Brink”

• Mass Press Assn.: First Place* Best series 1999, “Living on the Brink” *

• Community Action. Community Service * 1999, “Living on the Brink” *

• Recorder Publisher's Award*, 1997 federal spending cuts series *

• AP (New England) First Place, Best series 1981: “Yankee Atomic at 20”

• Recorder Publisher's Award, 1980

• AP (New England) Honorable Mention, Best series 1979: County Government’s Future

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SELECTED ADDITIONAL SERIES AND ENTERPRISE PROJECTS

• Features: Montague Commune, The Shakers of Franklin County, A Year of ESL 2008, A Trip on the Vermonter 2007

• “No Easy Answers:”Sexual abuse of children – series 2007

• ‘Twentieth Century Stories’ series 2000

• From Soviet Life to American Dream series 2001

• ‘We Remember’ Special Section, Sept. 11, 2002

• ‘Franklin Facts’ board game, 1987

• Cultural evolution: Franklin County’s Changing Face 2001

• “The Creative Spirit” series 2001

• ‘Follow the Mail Trail’ 1998

• Sentenced to Therapy, series 1995

• Immigration in Franklin County, series 1992

• Teens and Turmoil, series 1992

• Domestic Violence, series 1989

• County Government: Breaking Tradition, series 1983

• Waste Debate, series 1981

• The Dairy Case: High Price of Farming series 1980

• Series on water conservation, 1980

• Vermont Yankee at age 10, series 1982

• Energy issues for the future, series 1981

• Wood-burning series 1979

PRESENTATIONS AND HONORS

* Annual Henry Steele Commager Lecture: Media Fragmentation, Political Polarization - Why Truth Matters. Greenfield Commmunity College 2017

* Charlemont Forum Lecture Series: “The Role of Media in Understanding Religion in American Political Life” with Gustav Niebuhr August 2011

* The Cummington Story: Discussion of research on World War II refugee resettlement program, Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass. 2006

* Local Hero Award, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, April 2018

* Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, March 2018