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Deerfield, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning Deerfield! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- See what Deerfield homes just sold and for how much.
- How Deerfield honored a fallen officer 50 years later
- Curious what Historic Deerfield’s Stebbins House is revealing?
Also on today's calendar: Kane Hodder Live "Friday the 13th Part VII" Screening and Q&A. and 6 more events.
Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and not as warm, with a high of 70 and low of 39 degrees.
- Sunday: Rather cloudy, temps: high: 65, low: 47.
- Monday: Breezy with a stray shower, with a high of 68 and low of 40 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Area Property Deed Transfers, Oct. 2 (gazettenet.com) — Recent property transfers in Deerfield show several homes changing hands on North Main, Pine Nook, Sawmill Plain, and Stillwater Bridge roads, with prices ranging from about $105,000 to $645,000. These Franklin County deed records offer a snapshot of current local real estate activity and may help you gauge neighborhood values or understand how the housing market is moving around town. 
• ‘His memory is always on my mind': Community remembers Deerfield officer killed in the line of duty 50 years ago (recorder.com) — Deerfield residents, officials, and first responders gathered at Town Hall to honor Police Officer Walter R. Dacyczyn, killed in the line of duty 50 years ago while helping a stranded driver. Speakers shared how his dedication to service, family, and community still shapes the Police Department, supports a local scholarship, and reflects the small-town values his family continues to cherish.
• Stories in Bricks, Beams, Paint, & Plaster: Reading Buildings as Evidence – 2027 Building Archaeology Symposium (historic-deerfield.org) — Historic Deerfield is planning a one-day Building Archaeology Symposium at the Deerfield Community Center on April 3, 2027, centered on new research into the Asa and Emilia Stebbins House. Local history buffs, homeowners, and preservation professionals can expect case studies, a keynote by architectural historian Willie Graham, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Stebbins House restoration work.
📸 Around Deerfield
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Homeschool Lunch Bunch →
Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield
12:00 pm
Monday October 5
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Other local events
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Deerfield Board of Assessors Meeting →
Assessors Office, Rm 117, 8 Conway St, South Deerfield
7:00 pm -
Board of Assessors Meeting →
Assessors Office, Rm 117, 8 Conway St, South Deerfield
7:00 pm -
District Election - Franklin County Tech School Vote →
Main Meeting Room, 8 Conway St, South Deerfield
12:00 pm -
Selectboard/ Board of Health/ Sewer Commissioners →
Main Meeting Room, 8 Conway St, South Deerfield
5:45 pm -
Tilton Library Trustees Meeting →
Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield
6:30 pm -
DEDIC Regular Meeting →
Main Meeting Room, 8 Conway St, South Deerfield
8:45 am -
Deerfield After Dark: Ghosts of the Revolution →
Deerfield MA
6:30 pm -
Kane Hodder Live "Friday the 13th Part VII" Screening and Q&A. →
The Shea Theater, 71 Avenue A, Montague
6:30 pm
Monday October 5
Tuesday October 6
Wednesday October 7
Thursday October 8
Friday October 9
Tuesday October 13
📣 Deerfield Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Playdough Playtime →
Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield
10:30 am -
Present Power →
289 Amherst Rd, Sunderland
10:45 am -
Drop-In Fall Craft: Create a Woolly Bear Caterpillar
Sunderland Public Library - Children's Programs, 20 School Street, Sunderland
1:00 pm -
Parent Cafe: Facilitated Parent to Parent Group
Sunderland Public Library - Children's Programs, 20 School Street, Sunderland
5:30 pm
Saturday October 3
Monday October 5
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Cumberland Farms posted a job opening for Retail Sales Associate in Turners Falls. Apply here.
- JCPenney posted a job opening for Beauty Lead - Hampshire Mall in Hadley. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Deerfield here.
🗞 Nearby News
South Deerfield
- Bulletin Board: Frontier Youth football sweeps home openers (recorder.com)
Sunderland
- Footloose in the Fields: The '80s Soundtrack Maze Escape (audacy.com)
Montague
- Western Mass. residents urge Healey to intervene in Eversource plan (recorder.com)
- Maple Leaf Foods to close Turners Falls factory, consolidate to Indianapolis (atholdailynews.com)
- My Turn: Paving paradise to put up a parking lot (atholdailynews.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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