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Michael Bresnahan, worked at Monsanto

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

AMHERST - W. Michael Bresnahan, 73, of Northampton, died Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, in Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst.

He was born June 28, 1938, in Holyoke, the son of the late John and Marcella Pariseau Bresnahan.

Health care's new wave: Shift from treating sickness to ensuring health

Chad Cain — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

NORTHAMPTON - When Cooley Dickinson Hospital and its physicians group inked a deal last fall with Blue Cross Blue Shield to launch a new way of paying for medical care, it joined the vanguard of a movement that many believe will reshape health care in America.

• In one patient's home: Powering a new self-reliance

'No Child' left behind: Feds allow state to set rules for school progress

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

Area school leaders welcomed the announcement Thursday that Massachusetts is among 10 states the U.S. Department of Education freed from some of the stricter requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The change gives them needed leeway and sets more meaningful targets for student progress, they said.

• Waiver details

ID: Ellen Louise LaFleche

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

Poet Ellen LaFleche's "Workers' Rites," published last year, celebrates the lives of working-class people ranging from a chambermaid to a cloistered nun to a midwife on an immigrant ship. LaFleche says she hopes that the chapbook, which won the Philbrick Poetry Prize sponsored by the Providence Athenaeum in Rhode Island, can serve as an inspiration during tough economic times.

Man arraigned in incident involving female child

Charliesdad — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

NORTHAMPTON - Howard Joseph Goulette Jr. appeared briefly in Hampshire Superior Court Thursday to face arraignment on charges of failure to register as a sex offender, accosting or annoying a person of the opposite sex, enticement of a child under 16 and attempting to commit a crime.

Arraignment for Dec. 25 break-in delayed

Charliesdad — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

NORTHAMPTON - The Florence woman indicted by a Hampshire County grand jury in connection with a Christmas break-in has had her arraignment in Hampshire Superior Court postponed.

Nancy Gehrung, 48, of 56 Matthew Drive, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, but was granted the delay by Judge Mary-Lou Rup in order to provide her time to hire her own attorney.

A Look Back

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

50 YEARS AGO

· Ace relief pitcher Stu Miller went to a banquet last night and came away with a trophy, praise from the National League president, his fattest contract ever with the San Francisco Giants, and a fireman's hat. Miller, 34, the wining pitcher in the first 1961 All Star game and a star in the second one, posted a 14-5 record with the Giants and was credited with 12 saves.