■The University of Massachusetts football team has been invited to participate in the Boardwalk Bowl football game at Atlantic City, N.J., on Dec. 9. The game is played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall and is televised nationally.
■City druggists, upset over the prospect of required posting of prescription drug prices, charged this morning that posting would “jeopardize our careers.” The price war situation that would develop, they argue, would necessitate the use of cheap drugs of uncertain quality.
■The man described by his former boss as “the soul” of the Daily Hampshire Gazette is dead. Milton H. “Milt” Cole, one-time editor, longtime sports editor and columnist, died yesterday at the age of 69 following a stroke. Mr. Cole was vacationing in Phoenix with his wife, Nancy, at the time.
■Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health Howard Koh called on the Family Planning Council of Western Massachusetts yesterday, calling a needle exchange program a model of disease prevention based on a strong collaboration between the state, the city and the agency.
■Disposable food and drink containers made from expanded polystyrene will be prohibited in Amherst beginning Jan. 1, 2014. By a large majority, Town Meeting Monday voted to restrict restaurants from using Styrofoam.
■The historic look of most of the buildings on the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech campus will remain intact now that the City Council has approved a historic preservation restriction agreement with the Springfield company redeveloping the site. Opal Real Estate Group last month won site plan approval for the mixed-use development on the 11-acre campus off Round Hill Road.