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DIVISION 2-2A PREDICTIONS
Found: 4 Days 17 Hours 26 Minutes ago
Boston Herald - Some more from the old crystal ballDIVISION 2
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Man faces multiple rape charges
Found: 5 Days 10 Hours 42 Minutes ago
Boston Herald - BILLERICA - Billerica police have charged a 61-year-old homeless man with five counts of rape of a child after a concerned citizen reported suspicious activity on Sunday night.Police......
Billerica police charge man, 61, with rape of a child
Found: 5 Days 22 Hours 31 Minutes ago
Lowell Sun - Sun staff report BILLERICA -- Police have charged a 61-year-old homeless man with five counts of rape of a child after a concerned citizen reported suspicious activity off Governor Doherty Road on Sunday night....
Retail center changed the way people shopped, and it's still changing
Found: 6 Days 16 Hours 54 Minutes ago
Salem Evening News - PEABODY and mdash; Fifty years ago, when the Northshore Shopping Center was dedicated on Sept. 12, 1958, 50,000 people showed up.
The palatial Jordan Marsh, gleaming William Filene's and Sons and host of other shops beckoned the throngs. ...
It's moving day at Western Mass. college campuses
Found: 6 Days 18 Hours 33 Minutes ago
Union News & Republican - By ELIZABETH ROMAN
eroman@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD - Melissa L. Moulton, 18, of Westfield, wanted to be close enough to home that she could go there on the weekends, but far enough that she could experience real college life.
"I picked AIC because it's close, but I can still dorm and see what it's like to live with roommates," Moulton said.
Her parents, Nancy and Jeff Moulton, of Westfield, helped her move in Sunday along with about 600 other freshman who will attend American International College this year.
Colleges and universities across Western Massachusetts welcomed students and their parents Sunday during the annual moving-in weekend before classes start later this week.
For some parents the experience was bittersweet.
"She's my baby and the last one to leave home," said Virginia Sarlan, of Warren, who along with her husband, Michael, helped their daughter Chelsea Ward, 18, move into a dorm at AIC. Sarlan plans to major in special education.
"The rooms are bigger than I expected, and everyone seems pretty friendly," Ward said.
Thousands of students, mostly those entering their first year, moved into the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Sunday.
Freshman Adam Menard, of Belchertown, said he arrived at 10 a.m. even though he only lives about 15 minutes away.
"I was just excited to get here," he said.
At Western New England College, where approximately 2,000 students moved into residence halls, Andrew McCaffrey, a senior, and Jessica Daluise, a junior, helped direct parents and 835 first-year students around campus.
"This is my last year, so I'm really looking forward to directing my own play and getting involved on campus," said McCaffrey, an English major and theater minor from Burlington, Conn.
At Westfield State College, juniors Kesli J. McNally, of Harwich; Cierra L. Touchette, of Baldwinville; and Kelsey S. McGuire, of Enfield, said they appreciated the opportunity to move back into Scanlon Hall a day earlier than usual.
"I love it," said McNally, who said the three roomed together last year. "It's so nice to have that one extra day to move in and just make sure you have everything."
"I'm exhausted, but it's good to be back," Touchette said. The best part of being back on campus, she said, was "my roomies."
Director of Residential Life Jon A. Conlogue said slightly more than 60 percent - or about 2,680, including about 1,050 first-year students - of Westfield State's students are slated to live on campus this year.
At Springfield College upperclassmen were on hand to help more than 600 freshman find their dorm rooms, get dining hall information and register them to vote.
All residential students will have the opportunity to register to vote while checking into their residence halls this fall.
"Our goal is to be the first college in the nation to have all of their freshmen registered to vote for the 2008 election," said Claire E. Burns, media relations director for Springfield College.
Bay Path College started a bit early with freshmen moving on campus Saturday. The college has an enrollment of more than 1,600 students at its Longmeadow campus, and satellite campuses in Sturbridge, Charlton and Burlington.
Reporters David Bergengren and Jeanette DeForge contributed to this story.
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Cruising
Found: 1 Week 12 Hours 28 Minutes ago
Boston Globe - Bryant Page has owned his 1929 Model A roadster - the one he brought to a recent cruise night at Kimball Farm in Westford - for 71 years....
Funds from environmental bill
Found: 1 Week 14 Hours 5 Minutes ago
Boston Globe - The environmental bond bill signed this month by Governor Deval Patrick includes $500,000 to pay for arsenic remediation near the former Ledge Road landfill. State officials are working with the town to develop a plan for recapping the landfill, a project that is expected to take several years and cost roughly $10 million. Town Meeting has already appropriated the ......
Chance to influence town's future
Found: 1 Week 14 Hours 13 Minutes ago
Boston Globe - Selectmen are calling for residents with a wide range of skills to serve on a nine-member panel to help shape housing, land use, transportation, government, and development issues in town. They are needed for the Comprehensive Community Plan Phase 2 Committee, which begins semi-monthly meetings in the fall. Anyone interested should submit a letter and resume to Selectwoman Terra ......
Students paint mural for game room
Found: 1 Week 1 Day 6 Hours 7 Minutes ago
Union News & Republican - Michael S. GordonFour of the WNEC students who helped paint a mural in the basement of the Children's Study Home Friday. The students helped Springfield artist Donald R. Blanton. Students from left: Christina M. Strezo of Burlington, Mass., Harrison J. Liebman of Longmeadow, Jamie E. Kirschner of Bristol, Conn. and Brandt L. Miller of Greenfield.
SPRINGFIELD - A game room at the Children's Study Home is ablaze with color thanks to the efforts of 15 first-year Western New England College students.
The students, under the direction of Springfield artist Donald R. Blanton and his assistant, David C. Jackson, painted a full-color mural of a peaceful beach scene along a 50-foot stretch of wall.
"I think it's wonderful we are able to give back to the community," said Harrison J. Liebman, of Longmeadow. "It didn't take us all that long," said Brandt L. Miller, of Greenfield.
"I think everybody got so excited we just jumped right in," said Jaime E. Kirschner, of Bristol, Conn.
The Children's Study Home, founded in 1865, is an organization of professionals and volunteers dedicated to care for and improving the lives of at-risk children, youth and families through educational, residential and family services. It's based at 44 Sherman St.
The project was undertaken though a program known as Urban Plunge. It gives first-year students, led by upper-class students, the opportunity to participate in service projects that will affect residents of the Greater Springfield area.
Suzanne M. Boniface, community relations manager for the Children's Study Home, said they are grateful for artwork that now graces the game room of what's known as the Cottage, a residential facility for nine boys ages 6-13.
The beach scene, which includes a lighthouse, palm trees and seagulls, was selected because four of the boys recently returned from a camping trip to Cape Cod.
The day ended with a barbecue, courtesy of the college students, and a game of Wiffle Ball with the residents.
The agency serves children, adolescents and their families from communities throughout Massachusetts, who have experienced abuse or neglect, Boniface said.
Those who receive services are often struggling to cope with behavioral, psychiatric and cognitive issues related to their experiences, Boniface said.
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Sex crime suspect faces federal charge
Found: 1 Week 1 Day 6 Hours 33 Minutes ago
Cape Cod Times - BURLINGTON, Vt. — A convicted sex offender facing new allegations that he raped a preteen boy now has become the first person charged in Vermont with violating federal sex offender registry requirements....
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