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    <title>A fond farewell: Awad calls for civility on way out</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      In leaving the Select Board after more than eight years, Anne Awad is asking residents to take up a more civil tone and show greater respect toward each other when they have disagreements.
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    <title>Weiss drops plan to call for censure</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Despite the contention by some residents that Anne Awad's resignation from the Select Board was forced upon her by inappropriate actions by members of the community, it appears the board will not be issuing a statement condemning what transpired.
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    <title>Sunset Avenue neighbors seek action on frat</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      A long-time fraternity house on Sunset Avenue remains a sore point for residents on the street, who are now seeking help from town officials to exert more pressure on UMass to get rid of what they see as a nuisance to the neighborhood.
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    <title>Amherst exchange student among the last on K2</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      If he wasn't outdoors willfully braving the elements, Norwegian adventurer Rolf Bae was kicking back, wearing a bandana and playing the guitar for his friends in Amherst.
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    <title>Shaffer: Expert budget advice coming</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      A Blue Ribbon Task Force designed to give town and school administrators insight into making the government and schools more efficient has not yet made any recommendations.
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    <title>Sunderland woman concerned over coyotes</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      SUNDERLAND - In Jami Filiault's Russell Street neighborhood, talk of losing cats has become commonplace. There's no question what happens to the pets, she said: coyotes. Neighbors are losing something else, too. Sleep.
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    <title>Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Bus Routes</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      ARHS Principal Mark Jackson, 21 Mattoon St., Amherst, MA 01002, 362-1700
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    <title>Caution urged for ambulance decision</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Hadley's decision about how to provide ambulance service will have an impact on Amherst, whose Fire Department makes an average of two runs a day there.
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    <title>Hadley weighs impact of creating EMS service</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      HADLEY - If the town ran its own ambulance service instead of relying on Amherst's, it could be a break-even proposition, a Fire Department official says.
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    <title>Around Town: Need even greater for help in soup kitchens, donations</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      With food programs at the Amherst Survival Center seeing a sharp increase in use, residents are being reminded of opportunities to donate food, money and time to those less fortunate.
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    <title>Web site upgrade sought for schools</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      The town has a colorful new Web site, complete with a blog by the town manager, who uses his first entry to tout, in capital letters, "the best web site ever."
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    <title>ARHS students take aim at sun</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      The governor has been talking up alternative energy, trumpeting the "clean energy vision for Massachusetts" at the heart of a comprehensive energy package enacted last month offering a broad range of incentives to go green.
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    <title>Activist admits marchers not all Iraq War veterans</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      A man who joined a July 4 procession in Amherst now acknowledges that not everyone who walked under an Iraq Veterans Against the War banner was a former member of the armed services.
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    <title>ARHS grad's kidney transplant leads to gold</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Cheryl Rainford says though she wasn't much of an athlete at Amherst Regional, she always was a strong swimmer.
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    <title>Network Amherst: The Lehrer Report</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Eliza Arsenault, the daughter of James and Margaret Arsenault, of Mill Lane in Amherst; David Baecher, the son of Cynthia and Paul Baecher, of Weaver Circle in Amherst; Daria Pause, of Depot Road in Leverett; and Jillian Knapp, of Sunderland, were named to the dean's list at the University of Vermont.
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    <title>Reach for the sky</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Patrick Harner, of Amherst, stretches after a brief workout last Thursday afternoon at Groff Park in Amherst. Harner said he uses his lunch break to get some exercise on most days.
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    <title>Call to duty</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Jeremy Lee, 12, of Hadley, drags the buoy line across War Memorial Pool Sunday to reattach it following an hourly 15-minute break for lap swimming. Lee volunteered for the task.
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    <title>Amherst area elementary bus routes</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Crocker Farm Elementary School, 280 West St., Amherst, MA 01002, Principal Michael Morris, Assistant Principal Joseph Smith, 362-1600.
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    <title>Amherst Pelham Regional bus information</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Amherst Pelham Regional School has two bus contractors, Five Star Transportation and Kusmeskus Transportation, to bring students to and from school. The bus numbers are on the buses.
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    <title>Amherst elementary school bus information</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      Amherst Public and Pelham Public schools bus contractors are Five Star and Kusmeskus transportation.
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