Cold Hole News Today

Quamar Parker, 16, was last seen about 4 p.m. while swimming and jumping off a bridge with three friends in Cold Creek Tuesday afternoon.

We scouted out a few of these new or recently expanded spots. (Don't worry. It was no sweat.) Here are a few ways to find some cold comfort this winter.

Visit any one of these recreation areas within three hours of campus to get a taste of nature this school year.

Tucked in a library branch in Manhattan is the Picture Collection — a repository of about 1.5 million images available to the public for browsing and checking out — for free.

An artists rendering of what the concrete tubes will look like.  NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Conservation Commission on Tuesday approved an art installation of 11 concrete cylinders within the 200-foot buffer zone of the river at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.    The 10-foot diameter precast tubs will be arranged in an arc between Buildings 19 and 25, just east of Joes Field, and are designed to resonant with sound or music. Theyre the creation of artist Taryn Simon, whose "A Co...