Monday, March 15, 2010
NORTHAMPTON - Even as school superintendents remain in high demand, most of those working in Hampshire County earn salaries well below the state average, though a few are creeping closer. Former Amherst School Superintendent Alberto Rodriguez, who left his post abruptly last week, was the only area superintendent earning more than $150,000 in base salary, a Gazette survey finds.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
DEERFIELD - The Frontier Regional School Committee approved a tentative $8.7 million dollar budget that would restore a full-time art and drama teaching position and maintain the same curriculum and level of services as this year.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
GREENFIELD - Deerfield resident Delmer H. Truesdell will be going to state prison for child sex crimes after being found guilty of more than two dozen child sex and unrelated gun charges.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
GREENFIELD - Testimony began Wednesday in Superior Court in the case of a Deerfield man charged with more than two dozen counts of child rape, child molestation and illegal possession of firearms.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
greenfield -The state's highest court has disbarred lawyer Edward W. Pepyne, stripping him of all rights and privileges as an attorney.
Pepyne agreed to resign from the bar in December after charges were brought against him by the Board of Bar Overseers, but his official removal had to be ordered by the Supreme Judicial Court.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
POETRY PRIZE READING: The Massachusetts Review has awarded the 6th Annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize to Donald Morrill for his poem "Enemy Infant." On Friday at 8 p.m. Donald Morrill will present his work at the Prize Reading hosted by Amherst Books at 8 Main St.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Two Montague men were arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing bronze veterans' flag holders from cemeteries in Franklin and Hampshire counties. Police from Amherst, Montague and Greenfield and state troopers conducted raids at several places Tuesday morning, and arrested Mark E. Kuklewicz, 32, of 26 Lake Pleasant Road, Lake Pleasant, and Stanley Kuklewicz, 37, of 38 E. Main St., Millers Falls.
