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Editorial: Spoil sports

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

When crowds of students gather outside the Southwest residential area at the University of Massachusetts, the potential for violence, injury and property damage is always present.

From a single room, a 200-year-old house in Westhampton still fits families

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

Standing silently for more than 200 years, a house in Westhampton has been witness to the joys and tragedies of many families. It has heard the laughter of children, the music of pump organ and guitar, and the voices of adults raised in anger and in jubilation.

Farmer Timothy Phelps built his Colonial-style house in 1796.

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

Cathedral hockey earns key, historic win over BC High

mjwilk1237 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500

WEST SPRINGFIELD - The Cathedral hockey team's 4-3 victory over Boston College High Thursday night wasn't just important for this season, but also historic for the premier program in western Massachusetts.

'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

Dorothy R. Laselle service

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

EASTHAMPTON - Dorothy R. Laselle of Lyman Street passed away Jan. 31, 2012. A funeral service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Boucher-O'Brien Funeral Home, 7 Pleasant St., Easthampton. There are no calling hours. Donations may be made to the Junior Fishing Derby, Easthampton Rod & Gun Club, P.O. Box 407, Easthampton, MA 01027.