Amherst News

* Police are investigating incidents Sunday in which a vehicle was broken into at The Boulders apartment complex in the morning and an attempt was made in the afternoon to sell DVDs stolen from it at a downtown business.

U of R professor Cindy MacKenzie sits in her office with some of her favorite Emily Dickenson works.

Giving new meaning to the term "mash-up," DJ Steve Porter achieves the rarest of feats by making TV infomercials not only watchable, but kind of fascinating, by setting them to electro dance beats and running the voice of Vince the Pitchman through AutoTune and other effects.

Former Adams resident and radio host Sean Baker has been chronicling his adventures in unemployment on The Forecaster site in Maine.

* Doniel R. Ephraim, 32, of South Prospect Street, was arrested Sunday at 5:53 a.m. at his home on charges of violating the town's noise bylaw and resisting arrest, police said.

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One day you're answering the question of a local radio station, and the next you're speaking on a nationally televised program with President Barack Obama from the White house.

When Amherst, Mass., saw the formation of an alt-rock band called Dinosaur Jr. in Sept.

Police say a Chicago man who met a teenage Massachusetts girl on the Internet flew to Connecticut and sexually assaulted her at a hotel.

By FRAN BELLAMY Subtlety isn't a characteristic often associated with the Chinese restaurant food served hereabouts.

By PETER GOONAN pgoonan@repub.com BOSTON - State education officials and legislators honored several area teachers Thursday who were finalists and semi-finalists for the annual Massachusetts Teacher of the Year award.

One of the original signed prints of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at photographers has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for $74,324. Bobby Livingston, of RRAuction.com in Amherst, Mass., says the picture was taken in 1951 after a 72nd birthday celebration for the physicist.

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As he watched the floats and bands go by at Sunday's 350th anniversary parade, Daniel Dudkiewicz thought about his grandparents, who came to Hadley a century ago.

* Jacob N. Plotnick, 32, of Florence, was arrested Sunday at 1:08 a.m. on Massachusetts Avenue on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and operating a motor vehicle with a lights violation, police said.

The Hopkins Academy Band led the start of the parade. 2 The Hadley Public School float.

A A A College student Jes-c Brandt returns to The Holyoke Enterprise staff this summer, contributing much to the news content, photos and design.

Two administrators at a University of Massachusetts program that allows nontraditional students to design their own degrees are retiring after more than 40 combined years of service.

The fifth annual XLTA event, held recently in Amherst, Mass., attracted the pilots of 27 lighter-than-aircraft, most of them experimental homebuilts, for a weekend of flying and fellowship.

Town Manager Laurence R. Shaffer said he will continue having conversations with labor union representatives about forgoing cost of living increases in the next fiscal year even though school union officials do not plan to reopen their settled contract.