BELCHERTOWN - A University of Massachusetts graduate student who died in a fiery crash May 14 appeared to be having car problems, according to a friend who was speaking with her by telephone before the crash.
One of the most popular players ever for University of Massachusetts men's basketball team is coming back to Amherst. Lou Roe is expected to join the Minutemen's coaching staff at some point this summer according to multiple sources close to UMass.
In the middle of May, the view from LaVerne St. Mary's dining room in South Amherst is spectacular. Hundreds of white Japanese primroses can be seen in the boggy expanse below the windows. They extend into the neighboring woodland and are a delight to behold.
An Amherst native will be the first executive director of the town's new Business Improvement District. Alexander Krogh-Grabbe, 26, was hired to fill the position in a unanimous 11-0 vote by the BID's board of directors last week.
Given the rapid growth of farmers markets around the Valley, it comes as little surprise that allies of local agriculture are finding a novel way to tweak farm-consumer transactions. To wit, the "mobile farmers market" whose official name is Valley Green Feast.
Research had indicated that in the course of a few thousand years - a mere instant in geologic time - global temperatures rose five degrees Celsius (about 56 million years ago (MYA) ), marking a planetary fever known to scientists as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM.
The news report of the May 14 Town Meeting vote against Article 25 oversimplified a complex and productive discussion, as if it were merely a clash of naysayers opposed to change against development-minded progressives.
Online education tool impressive
To the Bulletin:
When I learned about Kahn Academy I immediately went online to check it out. I was really impressed.
Kahn Academy is a free educational tool with step-by-step lessons for students in numerous subjects. It also has a data tracking and collecting system for teachers.
I can now add Spain to my travelogue. I just returned from a week there.
The trip began in Barcelona. The major pedestrian walkway, Las Ramblas, leads to the sea. Along the way there are vendors, outdoor cafes, flower stalls and people from all over the world.
