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Company offers recycling incentive

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

National Grid has launched a new school fundraising program that works in conjunction with its refrigerator/freezer turn-in and recycling program. Under the program, National Grid's electricity customers can turn in old, secondhand refrigerators or freezers and receive a $50 incentive for allowing the appliance to be hauled away.

Obama wins little from China

AP Wire — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:16:05 -0500

BEIJING - President Barack Obama on Wednesday wraps up a three-day visit to China that has left him keenly aware of the limits of his administration's leverage over this economic powerhouse on issues from currency exchange rates to human rights.

Hilltown farmers pool resources on biodiesel manufacture

Diane Broncaccio — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

HAWLEY - On a brisk November morning, farmer Lisa Turner harvests seeds from the last of her sunflower crops.

"They have to be pretty dry; with all this rain, we have two fields left," said Turner. "We do have a lot of seeds here in the truck. This is something new." If the seeds are too moist, it gums up the machine, she said.

Obama walks tightrope in China

AP Wire — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:22:05 -0500

SHANGHAI - President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how - or if - he should raise traditional human rights concerns.

Gitmo detainees get day in court

AP Wire — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:22:06 -0500

WASHINGTON - In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Olver, other area lawmakers, endorse Capuano for Senate

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Michael Capuano has picked up the endorsement of fellow Congressman John W. Olver, of Amherst, and a handful of state legislators.

Feds to seize mosques, tower linked to Iran

AP Wire — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:54:53 -0500

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.