EASTHAMPTON -- With two ice cream shops south of Springfield covered in Gran-Val Scoop and The Summer House, we decided to head north this week for one of our most-recommended ice cream shops, Mt. Tom ...

Republican file photo: The Mt. Tom's Homemade Ice Cream Shop on Cottage Street in Easthampton. Here Allyson Rannikko serves up a Cookies n' Cream cone. Looking for a sweet way to ring in the new year?

Swiss pilot Yves "Jetman" Rossy strapped himself into a homemade jetpack — designed and built by Rossy himself — and jumped out of a helicopter hovering around Mt. Fuji in Japan. After a short free ...