Monday, February 22, 2010
One week ago today, the aerial combat unit at Barnes Air National Guard Base "stood up" to take over responsibility for defending the skies above the most densely populated part of the United States.
With a complement of 18 F-15 Eagle fighter jets, the 104th joined a network of military units across the country in a mission called the Air Sovereignty Alert.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Local institutions of higher education, including Smith, Amherst, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke colleges and the University of Massachusetts, offer links on their Web sites providing their communities suggestions for ways to help with Haitian relief efforts in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake. The following additional efforts are also under way:
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