Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Like most of the winners of the recent Bright Lights Big Verse contest, in which poets from across the country were invited to extol the virtues of Times Square, Amherst poet Henk Rossouw's relationship with the iconic stretch of New York City real estate is merely a passing one. Of the four top finishers (out of a field of 500 entries), only one lives in New York. The others, like Rossouw, are occasional passersby. But, that doesn't mean Rossouw, a student in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, didn't have plenty to say.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Ken Ober, a comedian and actor with roots in Valley comedy clubs, who as host of MTV's "Remote Control" in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests on the irreverent game show, was found dead Sunday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 52.
Friday, November 13, 2009
AMHERST - Hundreds of police officers holding candles and signs bearing slogans including "Cop killers not welcome here" stood outside as former political radical Pat Levasseur took the microphone Thursday night at the University of Massachusetts School of Management.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Amherst teen, mother charged in Cushman break-in
AMHERST - A break-in to a home in Cushman Monday afternoon led to the arrest of an Amherst teenager and charges being brought against the girl's mother.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Amherst
· Police took a report Tuesday at 11 p.m. that a man got inside the high school and attempted to steal recyclable cans. A custodian followed the suspect from the high school to downtown Amherst, where police determined the man has mental-health issues and brought him back to his caretaker.
Easthampton
Saturday, October 17, 2009
After a year of decline, area college and university endowments are finally seeing some improvement.
Following last August's Wall Street meltdown, colleges nationwide were concerned endowments could lose as much as 30 percent of their value by the end of the fiscal year, forcing institutions to slash operating budgets.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
· Maurice Saba, 21, of Stoneham, was arrested Friday at 12:03 a.m. near the corner of East Pleasant and Pray streets on three counts of malicious damage to motor vehicles after he ripped the mirror off one vehicle, struck a second vehicle with that mirror and then smashed a mirror on a third vehicle, police said.
