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Free Concert, Increased Police Presence Planned To Deter Blarney Blowout Troubles

A plan is in place to discourage drunken disruptive behavior during the so-called Blarney Blowout this Saturday in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Hoping to repeat the success of last year, there will be a free concert, campus visitor restrictions, and an increased police presence. These steps were taken after rowdiness in 2014 at off-campus parties resulted in 70 arrests and national embarrassment to the state’s flagship public university.  

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill talked with university spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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