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  • They're Baaaack...

    Number of comments: 20

    Okay, now we can exude the Christmas spirit; the Amherst Pelham Boy Scouts have set up shop on Kendrick Park as they have done for 50+ years (waiting, mercifully, until the day after Thanksgiving ) to sell trees over the next month where profits pretty [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:34pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • And another one gone...

    Number of comments: 20
    So it was announced at a Wednesday staff meeting that Department Head Epi Bodhi, Director of the Amherst Health Department is retiring. Ms Bodhi will probably best be remembered for the caustic Smoking Ban in Bars battle, dubbed the "issue of the year" by the venerable Amherst Bulletin for 1999. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:35am EST
    by LarryK4

  • A Thanksgiving Story

    Number of comments: 6
    (From the archives 11/21/07)

    Only in Arlington would posing for the greatest illustrator in American history on assignment for media juggernaut The Saturday Evening Post pass for routine.

    Richard (Dick) Hagelberg returned to the family dairy farm after surviving five years in the 9’th [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:22am EST
    by LarryK4

  • The Media Internet revolution: Version 3.0

    Number of comments: 8

    We believe in the nimble, street-level approach to collecting news. We hope to offer great writing from seasoned journalists as well as fledgling reporting from citizens who agree to cover public meetings. Life is a Journey, and we are unfurling our sails.

    Mary Serreze
    [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:19am EST
    by LarryK4

  • 11/22: That other awful day

    Number of comments: 7

    From the archives: (Yeah, scary to think I now have archives)

    The ornate condolence certificate, autographed by the President, arrived two months after the sudden death of my father—a combat veteran who helped overthrow the Japanese in the Philippines but never discussed it with [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:22am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Sign sign everywhere a sign

    Number of comments: 22
    Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind / Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

    So this large sign out by state owned Rt 116 coming into North Amherst goes one better on copyright "fair use" borrowing. Not only the white on [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by LarryK4

  • A tale of two signs

    Number of comments: 16


    So four years ago when the town ripped off the state's design logo for signage (that Mass charges $1,200 annually per location) Hickory Ridge Golf Course was paying for this sign in South Amherst, but Cherry Hill in North Amherst got theirs for free (two [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:57am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Let's break out the booze and have a ball

    Number of comments: 7
    The Lord Jeffery Inn

    I owe you a draft beer Mr Marx, payable on opening night spring, 2011 at the Boltwood Tavern--assuming the newly renovated Lord Jeff Inn keeps the concept of a low-key, relatively inexpensive pub as part of the fancy more expensive Inn [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:31pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • When the State breaks trust

    Number of comments: 16

    When Town Manager Larry Shaffer signed a 5-year Strategic Agreement with Umass for roughly $100,000 more than they had been paying Amherst for fire/ambulance protection the year before, he allowed them to take credit for the $100,000 Payment in lieu of Taxes Amherst receives from [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:48pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • Gotta love local TV journalism

    Number of comments: 27
    Okay, so let's forget attractive young cub TV reporter Jackie Bruno (in a C+ market area) botched Umass President Jack Wilson's surname (not Williams); and how the NJ State Trooper was killed (not by a bomb but by a handgun.) or the assault on two Mass State Troopers (also from [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:38pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • A proud tradition indeed

    Number of comments: 21

    (9:00 PM ) So tonight the forces of fear and oppression won out, and all of us are microscopically worse off.

    The academic forum on a twenty-year-old sedition trial where the main culprit was acquitted, but served 18 years on other charges did go [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:26pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • Yes, this is America

    Number of comments: 27


    At Least SOMEBODY at the Boston Herald has integrity

    So I can’t even remember the last time I disagreed with my friends at the Springfield Republican, but today they kind of blew it with an editorial on Ray Luc Levasseur’s censored Umass [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:53am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Worth dying for

    Number of comments: 18
    UPDATE: 6:45 PM So the on-again, off-again speech by convicted domestic terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur at Umass, you know, that bastion of higher education where the market of ideas--no matter how whacked--can be discussed in a civilized manner, is now OFF.

    And if I had [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:30am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Accuracy in reporting

    Number of comments: 47

    UPDATE Wednesday morning The Boston Herald Screams

    UPDATE Tuesday 10:00 PM The Boston Globe steps up

    UPDATE 2:30 PM: So apparently it was not the Umass bureaucrats who reconsidered domestic terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur's speech and showed some spine by allowing' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:07am EST
    by LarryK4

  • How high can you fly?

    Number of comments: 3




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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:03pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • Should Citizen Journalists be trained?

    Number of comments: 7
    Well of course there should be training! But then the question becomes who does the training?

    The Umass on-line certificate program is of course a good start because it sets minimum standards that allow motivated individuals to tap into a proven brand name for journalism.

    But once [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by LarryK4

  • UMass Library Under Fire

    Number of comments: 23

    No, not from "cleared" Gitmo detainees relocated to the People's Republic of Amherst, just from the usual suspects--right wing radio shock jocks who moonlight as Boston Herald columnists.

    And yes these are the same folks who flamed Umass Amherst last spring when Nitwit left' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:05am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Incoming!

    Number of comments: 29
    WBUR Boston radio reports (NPR affiliate)
    Cartoon in today's Amherst Bulletin (also loaded with Letters and Columns on Gitmo)
    Ruth Hooke addresses Amherst Town Meeting

    UPDATE: 9:20 AM So conservative Boston talk radio station 96.9 WTKK called and will be' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:36pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • To Be Continued...

    Number of comments: 3
    Town Meeting that is. Tonight @ 7:30 (well more like 7:40)

    Article #9 expanding the potential for medical establishments to locate in a research park will take at least an hour as the NIMBY's bring all guns to bear (fortunately they do not use IEDs.)

    Articles #11-13 are' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:03am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Amherst Town Meeting Fiddles...

    Number of comments: 28
    Select Board Chair Stephanie O'Keeffe explains the Interstellar Alien Landing Port

    But seriously folks, tonight the campaign for a multi-million dollar tax Override began.

    The Finance Committee gave a verbal report that parroted the Assistant Town Manager's presentation a few weeks back to the illustrious [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:01pm EST
    by LarryK4

  • An American institution

    Number of comments: 12


    So, ugh, Amherst Town Meeting starts tonight--the 250th.5

    Only 14 articles compared to around 40 in the Spring so it should not take all that long. And the only article that will generate interest is #14, last on the list, thus no chance [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by LarryK4

  • Hear ye, hear ye: Town crier needs material

    Number of comments: 7
    What things would you do as editor of a Citizens Journalism effort to increase public input?

    I would establish ‘beats’, ‘channels’, or compartmentalized sections on the site (just as a newspaper has national, local, sports, entertainment, living sections etc).

    All of these sections would have their own Forum [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:13am EST
    by LarryK4
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