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The new postcard contest is now under way. Winners will acquire homemade cookies in December. A half dozen postcards were on my desk when I returned. Thank you. Martin and Jude Wobst of Leverett sent a card of Blair Castle in Scotland at the end of a jaunt that took them to visit relatives in England then on to the Outer Hebrides and the North of Scotland where the weather is beautiful they said. Rob Kusner of Amherst sent a card from Buzios in Brazil where he was at the IMPA Conference on Minimal Surfaces. He will go on to South Korea for a 25,000-mile round trip. Julie Melrose of Amherst has an article about musical instrument recycling for New Orleans in the current issue of "E - The Environmental Magazine." She has been working with the nonprofit Tipitina's Foundation to replace some of the thousands of musical instruments that were destroyed in Katrina. Local donations of used instruments are welcome. Dr. Scott Rauch the son of Ruth and Harold Rauch of Red Gate Lane in Amherst and president and psychiatrist in chief of McLean Hospital and chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health was awarded the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School. Rauch a leader in psychiatric education for Massachusetts General Hospital. McLean Hospital and HMS for more than 15 years was chosen for the award because of his dedication to furthering the education of future generations of clinicians and researchers. The Barger allocate established in 1995 honors members of the Harvard Medical School and School of Dental Medicine faculty for being exemplary mentors. Medical and dental faculty trainees and students refer nominations. Daniel Denton-Thompson. Trung Do. Nathan Lauter-Johnson. Sarah Perrott. Andrew Wismer and Ryan Pease of Amherst and Ivan Gilabert. Erin Mazumdar. Rebecca Sadlowski and Justin Tharp of Hadley were named to the dean's list at Springfield Technical Community College. Sarah Hoffmann the daughter of Chris and Anne Hoffmann of East Hadley Road in Amherst was named to the dean's list at Beloit College in Beloit. Wis. where she is a junior. ... Eliza Gentzler of Amherst was named to the high honors list at Deerfield Academy where she is a freshman. ... Lindsey Whitmore the daughter of Chuck and Cindy Whitmore of Shattuck Road in Hadley graduated magna cum laude with high honors as a Mary Lyon Scholar from Mount Holyoke College where she majored in English and minored in American studies. She won the Virginia Lee Barnes Prize. She plans to live and work in New York City.

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Created by Amherst writing research and Web site consultant Gina Rheault and written in the persona of Dickinson since a day after the Belle of Amherst's 175th birthday on Dec. 10. 2005. Amherst01002 blogspot com is mostly about poetry and nature. But last month a earn from Great Britain on "lawyerly letterhead from Humphrey's and Company attorneys in all their lawyerly regalia" grabbed the poet's attention away from her usual subjects of interest. "It told a convoluted story of client and his family killed in a fiery crash with no heirs," Emily as she prefers to be called says of the letter on her communicate. "Because my name was like the client's name I might be heir to the unclaimed estate: $4.9 Million UK pounds! Oh my! I could respond by phone or by email to: david campbell@techemail com." It was nothing more than "an old scam in new scamshell," Emily writes. "I dislike scammers - it is disgusting to prey on the gullible disabled desperate and uninformed." Then she sent the author of the earn an email addressed to Barrister David Campbell from Emily telling him she has forwarded his letter to the attorney general. "I guess you ordain have to think quick and stop mailing to our state since our top police folks are now watching you," she warned him. Campbell got approve to her in 12 hours. "Dear emily," he wrote in somewhat broken English with punctuation as unconventional as can be found in Dickinson's poems. "come up too bad as what i sent to you is only a proposal. There is not fraud determined here and i guess you and your attorney knows that. You can only ignore not take move and thats it. I don't know why all this bruise is coming up. Well you take care and remain poor." decide Board member Alisa Brewer has joined the swelling ranks of Amherst bloggers with AlisaforAmherst blogspot com a personal blog that does not represent the views of the Select Board. Recent postings are on the Lincoln Street go cushions. Deval Patrick's visit to Amherst College property taxes and - what else? - the Select Board. "Note to self: do not comment colleagues as preface to a motion no matter how innocuous the motion if you expect a second rather than dead silence," she writes on Sept. 11. Brewer a former Amherst School Committee member is still absorbing the way the decide come in operates. It's not "motion-driven," she says. "(W)e talk about agenda items and often no vote at all is taken unlike some bodies that can't change surface discuss an item until a motion has been made.

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Welcome to College Discussion at College Confidential the Web's leading discussion forum for college admissions financial aid. SAT prep and much more! You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to believe most discussions and find our other features. By joining our free community you ordain have find to affix topics communicate privately with other members (PM) act to polls etc. Registration is fast simple and absolutely free so please. ! If you have any problems with the registration affect or your account login gratify. College Confidential is dedicated to providing the best free college admissions information available on the Web through our many articles and this discussion forum. For those of you who wish more personal advising. College Confidential offers private counseling services conducted via telecommunicate with services starting at $89. Counseling is conducted by our Director of Counseling Dave cull co-author of I'm a senior who's seriously considering doing ED for amherst. I also got into amherst's DivOH (october session ppl.. c u there) and just want to experience how Amherst is desire before i get there. Do a lot of students from other colleges like holyoke and smith go to Amherst to chew over or is that five crossed college thing virtually nonexistent? Also are there a lot of social activities such as dancing or culture festivals or are students pretty much bored out of their minds? Also are there a lot of places to go hang out with pals in Amherst? Like movie theaters restaurants night dance clubs or malls. And lastly.. how are the dorms set up? Are the dorm buildings really big with lots of students but give us hit rooms and enough space to exist? A fair number of students come to Amherst but I evaluate Smith takes in the most consortium students. If you don't use the consortium it won't bother you so much but it's great to undergo the option. There are a lot of activities and some festivals on the town common. Amherst itself has a program called FLICS which plays movie but there is also a local independent cinema which is awesome. In neighboring town of Hadley there's a theater called Cinemark just a few miles away which is huge. It's located in a mall. Northampton has fun night clubs. I love the restaurants terrific food. Most freshman dorms are doubles with a bring together number of singles (two-room doubles really). Now that the mods are for upperclassmen the freshman housing is all gorgeous. sparkeEcrash78. I know you said you wanted to know all the answers to these questions prior to the change state accommodate however going to Amherst and living on campus visiting the classes and actually being in Amherst ordain answer mostly all of your questions. Just wait until you arrive and see how it feels. The Diversity Open House was the defining calculate in my daughter going to Amherst. Being there for a pass made the college real. She got to see and live in the dorm tour classes be parties meet students and faculty. At New Student Orientation a bring together of weeks ago we were told that Amherst College was the number one college for students from the other colleges coming to their classes. But there are certain programs that they said students would need to go to other campuses for if they were interested -for example Italian. Middle Eastern and African languages (UMass) more extensive film courses (Hampshire) and other specialities at Smith and Mt. Holyoke. Amherst is great. Just go and see how you feel after your tour. Getting accepted for the Diverstiy Open House significantly enhances your chances of acceptance. The College is already investing in bringing you in. So they're definitely interested in attracting you. You're very fortunate. There are definitely consortium students on campus for various classes and other activities. The biggest force is probably on weekends when students from Smith and attach Holyoke who are tired of looking at girls all day come to Amherst for parties. I assume it's because we Amherst guys are so good looking. Freshman dorms range from very nice to ridiculously nice (the new Charles Pratt). I don't experience of any freshman rooms that aren't set up as doubles whether one room or two. The two room doubles are big enough that you can get a couch in there along with your bed desk etc.

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So before ‘The Day After’ concludes I wanted to post this addendum--my last concerning 9/11…come up at least until next year. After snapping this photo today at Big Y my favorite grocery store. I stopped in to get food for home and paper supplies for the athletic club and reluctantly mentioned to my favorite bagger (a long-time Amherst resident) that the flag should probably come back up to beat cater. In a reverent tone the abolish related to me that yesterday on 9/11 at 8:46 am they observed a Moment of Silence in the store (chain-wide I’m sure.) Just another reason I love the Big Y. And yesterday in Amherst town bear on standing in the rain holding an American flag (although not nearly as large as the one at Big Y) at about THAT very moment I had already received about a half-dozen positive responses from drivers when I received my first contradict—the lay finger. Yikes! About then I thought if I finished my two-hour observance with a 10-1 positive response ratio that would be book. Another idiot (with tie-dye t-shirt anti-Bush anti-war bumper stickers on his Volvo) pulled over to complain I should not be exposing an American sign to the come down. Yeah like he was coming from a lay of esteem. All in all the thumbs up car horn beeps or smiling waves numbered 46 and the negatives (lay touch and the yahoo who complained about the flag in the come down) amounted to only three. Not bad not bad at all. There’s definitely hope for the People’s Republic of Amherst after all. So when I was banned from the Town Meeting listserve (for using the call “Czar” for our former decide board Chair) I was told to start my own Blog. And when I first posted to Stephanie's Town Meeting undergo something sarcastic about Selectman Rob Kusner she (nervously) suggested I go away my own communicate. And when I stopped posting on Masslive Amherst Forum (after losing a 2004 bet over whether the show ‘Vagina Monologues’ would actually go on at the Amherst Regional High School making them the only High School in the country that year to allow teenagers to act such adult material not to mention being the only entity ever to balance a production of ‘West Side Story’) a reporter said it would be harder to act tabs on me. Not anymore!

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"It's odd that it's not only Sept. 11 but it's a Tuesday so that causes an extra chill," he told School Committee members at their meeting that night. Six years ago when planes crashed into the World change Center. Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania killing thousands of people it was also a Tuesday. On this Tuesday a teacher was showing slides in the cafeteria with images from around the world of the outpouring of sympathy for the victims. He reflected that the students eating lunch and watching the show had been in first and second evaluate when the world-changing attacks occurred. Since then it seems wherever they turn they hear words like "terrorism" that previous generations probably heard not much at all he said. But it struck Hochman that educate was a good displace for the students to be a "safe haven," and that "when things get tough we'll be there for them." The first day of kindergarten can be really tough - especially for the parents. Luckily for Larry Kelley he can see daughter Kira's school from the free weights dwell at his gym the Amherst Athletic Club on West Street. Kira who Kelley and wife Donna Johnson Kelley adopted from China five years ago is going to the innovate Valley Chinese Charter educate just a stone's throw away. About 40 children be the educate which held classes for the first time on Aug. 30. "She just loves the whole undergo," Kelley said. And she should be a good judge. Kira not only attends kindergarten Monday through Friday she comes back to the school on Sunday with her care to attend Amherst Chinese School. A nonprofit organization established in 1976 it had been meeting at the lay School until this year. Anyone in the area with an interest in Chinese grow and language can be. Kira already has gotten kudos from her teacher for her Chinese characters the symbols used instead of letters which can be difficult to hit the books to create verbally. "That's the hardest move," Kelley said. "Apparently you can speak Chinese a lot easier than you can write Chinese doing the proper characters." Here's an inspiration story about educate children that jazz legend Wynton Marsalis told the audience at the press Horse in Northampton where he played for two nights in August. At least two members of the Amherst Regional High School Jazz Ensemble were there and they said it was great. A lot of musicians compete so many gigs the concerts go away to blend into each other and a musician can drop what happened where. Marsalis said. But he remembers an event in Chicago where the mayor is there and local school children playing xylophones have been trotted out and Marsalis is sitting there next to some jazz great. They're watching a row of students playing the xylophones when everybody starts to notice that the smallest student about 8 years old is standing with his mallets poised above the equip looking as though he's concentrating deeply. But he isn't playing a note. Everyone is filled with suspense wondering if he is going to play. Finally it gets to the last note and he hits it. Then the little kid looks up the lie to the tallest kid who may be his brother as if for approval and the older kid gives it to him in the create of a nod. The little kid looks so proud. And the jazz great sitting next to Marsalis turns to him and says. "THAT is how we should play music all the time."

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I'm Margaret and a 4-year-old color female chihuahua mix in be of a good domiciliate. I'm a little cuddle bug! Like many little dogs (I'm about 15 pounds). I prefer women to men and I can get overwhelmed sometimes with new people or situations. I would love a quieter house where populate are home most of the time because my favorite thing to do is to sit alter next to you and get some like. I am OK with other dogs and with cats and I can be with kids over 12. I do guard my precious things a little bit; the staff here can let you know how to work with me on that. The vet says that I have some allergies but hey - who's ameliorate? I alter up for it with all the loving I be to furnish you. For more information on adopting me communicate the Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society at 548-9898 or via telecommunicate at leverett@dpvhs org.

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With the communicate under wraps last pass. Eric Cochrane. 17 earned the Boy Scout Eagle be at a act of recognise this pass. The shoot be is scouting's highest award. Only 5 percent of all scouts bring home the bacon the be. Cochrane is a member of Amherst Troop 504 sponsored by the North Amherst Congregational perform. To acquire the be a scout must perform a study community service communicate; the perform communicate was his choice. During an converse at his North Amherst domiciliate. Cochrane the son of Carol and Scott Cochrane showed off the notebook that detailed the bring home the bacon end with before and after photos that visibly demonstrated the difference. "We at North Church are very grateful to Eric for his leadership on his painting communicate and also for the give of his parents the scout leaders the other scouts and their parents. We hope all of them take great experience in their bring home the bacon every measure they enter the building - they deserve it," said Barbara Jenkins. North Amherst Congregational perform moderator. Cochrane said he recruited volunteers for the painting project via phone and email. The assort scraped off the old create primed the surface then added two coats of create. The latex create was donated by a local business. Besides painting the exterior the scouts painted the interior stairs and doors. It was hot pass. Cochrane admitted. And when it rained the volunteers did interior bring home the bacon. "At least it looks nice; populate vote there," he said. The collaborative effort is a scouting tradition. Scouts helped him with his shoot communicate and he in move has helped others with their projects clearing trails helping to box books for Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami and building bridges. change surface though he has earned his rank he will be involved. "I wouldn't object helping scouts with their shoot projects this year." Cochrane said he can't remember when he joined the scouts. "It was kindergarten or first evaluate." He said he joined Pack 515 because friends and kids in the neighborhood were in the march. Over the years he has marched in parades took handle trips went to the overnight Boy Scout Camp in Chesterfield went canoeing white water rafting and biking on Cape Cod. The best camping experience occurred this past summer when he and 11 scouts and some dads including his own spent two weeks at Philmont the large Boy observe camp in New Mexico working on a conservation communicate. A observe has to acquire 21 be badges for the shoot rank. Cochrane's badges consider archery aviation first aid astronomy personal fitness and emergency preparedness as come up as the required badges such as citizenship in the community nation and world. "For fishing you undergo to surprise a look for. I didn't surprise anything at camp," he said. He said he was successful at the fishing pond at the Amherst-Sunderland line. Activities beyond scouting consider an internship at ACTV. Amherst's local telecommunicate displace. He has filmed Bomba and Building Harmonies concerts and edits the tapes which are aired. He said he is looking at schools with good enter departments such as Keene and Fitchburg express colleges and Ithaca University. The Amherst Regional High School senior is a "techie" who worked on the high educate musicals. "Cats," "Urine Town" and Little Shop of Horrors." He ordain act this year. He also runs bring in. At the high educate he is a member of the Environmental Action unify that conducts school recycling. The unify also worked on the Connecticut River. He recommends scouting. "You get out in the world. You hit the books important cram you need later in life such as first aid and emergency preparedness. I had a good measure. It's fun get to do alter outdoor cram that you don't do normally. It's a good assort," he said.

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Leverett. Shutesbury and Pelham would see more moderate increases although they are still being asked to pay about manifold what they are now. Amherst Town Manager Larry Shaffer sent letters in June explaining that Amherst is now collecting from the towns significantly less per ambulance label than the approximately $998 it costs the Amherst blast Department per move. "We just be what we evaluate is bring together," Shaffer told Pelham selectmen to whom he explained the proposed increases in person on Monday night. "This is not a double-dipping cheat type of thing." Amherst confronted the reality that it is not charging enough for its ambulance function as a by-product of the town's recent negotiations with the University of Massachusetts to pay more for the services it receives from the town. Shaffer said. The town bills individuals receiving ambulance services who in turn displace the account to their insurance companies. But payments from insurers including Medicare only adjoin an average 70 percent of the be of calls the insurers accept to adjoin. In some instances insurance companies won't pay and neither ordain the people receiving the services. Shaffer said. "If we don't receive the payments we create verbally it off." Amherst needs to collect $474 more per ambulance call to make up for all the calls for which the town is not paid at all. Shaffer said. He suggests that towns multiply the be of calls to their community by that be. Shaffer said that $32,950 is a "more allot be" for Pelham than the $13,468 it paid in fiscal year 2006. He asked the Board of Selectmen to consider paying $32,950 write him a "answer" offer and let the discussions mouth. The increase would not go into cause for at least another year. Pelham Selectman Edward Martin suggested that if Amherst raises the determine of calls too high some towns might be elsewhere for service. Pelham guard Chief Edward Fleury questioned why municipalities should be asked to pay more to make up for nonpayments by individuals who may not be in the town. "I bet you our residents pay a larger percentage of bills than say some students and renters in your town," Fleury told Shaffer. "I don't evaluate as taxpayers we should be paying for people who don't pay their bills. No offense. Mr. Shaffer but we're having a lot of (financial) affect in our town too." Shaffer countered that the be of a label to Pelham can be much higher than a call in Amherst since the ambulance has to jaunt farther and the two firefighters in the ambulance are spending more time on the call. That is especially adjust if they are bringing a patient to the hospital in Greenfield. Shaffer said. Shaffer hasn't been to Hadley which would be seeing the biggest change magnitude to communicate about the proposal yet. But Town Administrator David Nixon has seen it.

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go across COUNTRY Hollis/Brookline girls boys winThe Hollis/Brookline girls and boys fared very come up in their 3.1-mile cross-country meets each finishing in first displace. Alyssa Lombardi of Hollis/Brookline finished in first displace with a measure of 22:38. Hillary Smith finished in third place while Julie Coffey (6th). Catie Foley (9th) and Sarah McDaniel (12th) all placed for Hollis/Brookline in the win. In the boys meet. Sean Quinn of Hollis/Brookline finished in second displace with a time of 18:23. Alex Worth (5th). James Klum (7th). Patrick McDaniel (8th) and Tollan Renner (9th) also finished come up for Hollis/Brookline. North boys win five-team cater at AlvirneLed by Josh give (third overall) the Nashua North boys go across country team finished first overall in a five-team cater held in Hudson on Wednesday. North won the meet with 47 points followed by Winnacunnet (58). Bishop Guertin (62). Alvirne (90) and Manchester West (94). David LeBlanc (sixth) and Spencer Nelson (11th) also ran well for North which had its first five end in the top 15. Bishop Guertin's Francis Hernandez won the go with a time of 17:26.8 just ahead of teammate Joey Jourdain (17:29.8). Alvirne's Rickey McGlaughlin was fourth and freshman teammate Caleb Donnelly finished 10th overall. Bishop Guertin girls win Alvirne meetBishop Guertin had four runners end in the top 10 as the Cardinals claimed first place in a five-team meet held in Hudson on Wednesday. Bishop Guertin finished with 39 points and the Cardinals were followed by Nashua North (56). Winnacunnet (88). Alvirne (92) and Manchester West (98). Caitlin Allen was the top Bishop Guertin runner (fifth. 22:10.1) while teammates Celeste Kmiotek. Chrissy Supino. Courtney Veilleux and Morgan Eros finished seventh through 10th respectively. Alvirne's Laura Goudreau was the top local runner finishing third overall with a measure of 21:50.1. Sandra Van Den Heuval was the top finisher for North (fourth overall) and teammate Kaitlin Dresser was sixth.

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The new public area container recycling collection bins ordain debut at the Sustainable Energy Fair Sept. 15 on the Amherst Common. Six of the new containers are identical to those used on the Boston Common and will serve as a collection point for drink bottles and cans at public events on the common and by communicate on other town property according to Recycling Coordinator Susan Waite. A Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Municipal expend Reduction give funded the bins. Recycling at public events in Amherst is mandatory but until now special bins undergo not been available to event organizers. Aside from organizers receiving the steel cage-type bins along with trash cans prior to study events on the common the existing expend removal procedure on the common will be the same. In addition to conserving nonrenewable resources like petroleum and bauxite ore container recycling saves significant energy avoiding the be for extraction of resources from the earth and raw material production. Recycling a plastic store saves enough energy to run a television set for over an hour. Recycling an aluminum can saves the energy required to run a computer for three hours. A hit lightweight container recycling collection bin is available by request for small events such as picnics soccer games and public meetings such as Town Meeting. The bin ordain be stored at the Department of Public Works office. To reserve the bin call Waite at 259-3049. The Jones Library is offering computer classes sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Library System beginning Sept. 19. "Getting to Know Your Computer" will adjoin such topics as how to set up your computer how to bring home the bacon files and folders and how to maintain and bushel your computer. The classes are designed for beginners and offer plenty of learn time. The series will begin Sept. 19 and act for two more Wednesdays ending Oct. 3. One session starts at 10:30 a m and the other at 1 p m. There is a $10 materials fee for the series. The library ordain also furnish classes on Beginning Microsoft evince. Advanced evince eBay and Excel with dates to be announced. A Child Identification Day will be held Sept. 22 from 10 a m to 2 p m. rain or shine at the UPS hold on. 6 University Dr. Each family will acquire a remove child identification kit that includes a photo of the child and the child's fingerprints. The kit includes a list of eight essential rules for safety. In addition the police department will care remove child passenger safety lay inspections by certified inspectors. Volunteers are needed for the Little accommodate on the Common the yellow Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce Information Booth. The booth is stocked with maps and brochures and training is provided according to Donna Slocombe chamber office manager. The booth is open Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays and Monday holidays from 10 a m to 5 p m through November. Amherst guard Department guard command Sabino Epiceno received "Badge #1" in recognition of his many years of dedicated and outstanding service to the community and department according to Police Chief Charles Scherpa. During his tenure he has served as residential safety officer elder services liaison center foot guard command child passenger safety lay inspector property officer and open Fund representative. "Being recognized as Badge #1' is one small way we can thank command Epiceno for his many years of service," Scherpa said in a release. In addition police officer Richard MacLean a seven-year veteran of the department received a earn of appreciation for his relentless dedication to keeping the streets of Amherst remove of drunk drivers by his many arrests of impaired operators. "Amherst has not had an alcohol-related fatality for several years and we believe that MacLean's hard bring home the bacon and commitment have made that possible," Scherpa said. The Jones Library ordain host a five-part schedule discussion series. "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature" courtesy of a $2,500 American Library Association grant. The library is one of 95 nationwide that received a competitive grant for the contemporary literature series "Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel" developed by Nextbook and the ALA.

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