by Steve Sauter | Dec 3, 2009 | News
As a the Coordinator of Education at the Amherst College Natural History museum, Steve Sauter has made it his business to be a scholar of Edward Hitchcock and his collection of dinosaur footprints. Recently, he gave the Valley Advocate a tour of some of his and the...
by James Heflin | Dec 3, 2009 | News
Museums10, a collaborative marketing effort of museums all over the Valley, might sound at first blush like just another of the many departments orbiting the Five College consortium, a vague if probably good campaign to promote things academic. But when it comes to...
by Our Readers | Dec 10, 2009 | News
More on Levasseur Thanks to Stephanie Kraft for the op/ed on Ray Levasseur I wish I had written ("The Right to Hear," Dec. 3, 2009). As a UMass student who attended the sedition trial talk, I didn't appreciate a police officer taking numerous photos of...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 10, 2009 | News
On a Friday morning in mid-November, more than 130 Springfield property owners were summoned to Housing Court to answer for violations of the city's housing code: trash-strewn yards, wildly overgrown lawns, unregistered cars. "Neglected properties are...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 10, 2009 | News
So far the war in Afghanistan has cost the U.S. more than $233 billion, according to the Northampton-based National Priorities Project, which analyzes federal financial data. NPP notes that the number of troops in Afghanistan, slated to grow by another 30,000 within...
