Springfield College News

Politics Submitted by John McNamara, New Britain Democratic Town Committee, on 2009-11-12.   Robert Sanchez, appointed last month by the New Britain Common Council to fill a vacancy on the board of education, recently received a Citizen of the Year award at the 12th annual awards gala sponsored by the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission ...

Recently recovered memorabilia, relating to the life and times of Laurence Locke Doggett, are on display on the 1st floor of Babson Library.

Protesters at Wade Rathke's speech at UMass on Tuesday, Nov. 10 kept mostly to the street outside the event.

It's a non descript store on Main Street. Right across from Red Rose, Appliance Plus is a bare bones appliance store to any customer, but to the owner, it's a labor of love and and it's her life.

Police are on the scene of a reported shooting on Allen Street Friday morning, which has sent a teenager to the hospital.

Poster of Springfield Technical Community College student George Hargrove for "George: Wrestling with Resistance," a documentary made by Springfield Central High teacher and wrestling coach Tim O'Donnell. "We all experience 'wrestling,' whether it be potholes, paper cuts or spilled coffee.

The Family Readiness Group for the local Bravo Battery National Guard unit in Avon Park is launching its second annual toy drive for the upcoming Christmas holiday.

Johnson City High graduate Jared Manzer broke an Alfred University record by returning an interception 98 yards for a touchdown Saturday, helping the Saxons top visiting Rochester 51-14 in Empire 8 football action.

Saugerties High senior Rachel Meyers was recently named the 2009-10 student representative to the Board of Education, giving her a seat among administrators and trustees at each public meeting.

Opponents of Police Chief David Hall are charging that the mayoral candidate lied about his education in the League of Women Voters voting guide.

Two St. Augustine men, Dr. Matthew G. Maetozo and Keith Johnson, were among 100 veterans and volunteers who participated in the Volusia Honor Award Flight for World War II Veterans to Washington, D.C. May 9. The Volusia group is part of the Honor Flight Network, a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans.

With a career now spanning almost half a century, Bill Cosby shows no signs of slowing down.

Thanks to the Valley's status as home to numerous institutions of higher learning, there is a treasure trove of college radio stations just waiting to be discovered deep in the far reaches of your FM radio dial.

Immigrants who freshly arrive here struggle with everything from learning how pedestrian crossing signals work to adapting to cold weather.

Domenic Sarno at Springfield College. Republican photo And, more broadly: colleges, crime, stat-keeping, and the tofu curtain After the murder of Yale grad student Annie Le , the Daily Beast combed 2006-2007 crime statistics of U.S. colleges to calculate which campuses were the safest and most dangerous.

Springfield College has received an AmeriCorps grant of $1,606,527 to support students who will participate in the program to help Greater Springfield schools and nonprofit organizations over the next three years.

Students and faculty at Springfield College are giving back to the community. Springfield College is mobilizing over 1,600 campus volunteers to work on 125 service projects throughout the city of Springfield.

A new survey ranks crime on the nation's college campuses and it indicates that some of the most dangerous colleges in the country are in Massachusetts.

When Emerson College stole the Suffolk ram, it was just one of many thefts on or near campus.

Hampden First Assistant District Attorney James Orenstein holds his first grandchild, Jacob Benjamin Cohen, born on 09-09-09 at Baystate Medical Center.