Culture quest: Wallace Teaching Award winner WaleskaSantiago-Centeno leverages the power of the library to bring the traditions and arts of people the world over to her students

10-03-2024 5:06 PM

“We were trying to find someone who represents the multitudes of who we are as a school community. … Whatever Waleska brings to the building, it’s vast.” — Principal Derek Shea AMHERST — Art from Indigenous tribes, Hawaii, Nepal, Mexico and Chile,...


Western Mass farmers battle ‘pumpkin plague’

10-10-2024 6:41 PM

Some squash, pumpkin and potato farmers in the Pioneer Valley are bearing the burden of a soil-based disease described by one farmer as being “like the plague” for these and potentially many more species.Walking through a barren pumpkin patch late...


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Amherst native Vanessa Chakour brings women’s boxing classes to Franklin County's YMCA
08-22-2024 11:22 AM

Vanessa Chakour didn’t always want to be a boxer. If you asked the Amherst native what she wanted to be when she grew up, she may have said a National Geographic photographer, an author or an illustrator, but never once did being a professional...

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Guest columnist Barry Hirsch: No peace, no future with Hamas still a factor
10-03-2024 5:09 PM

 Like many people, I have felt the pain and sadness of the war in Gaza every day since Oct. 7. I have a colleague who is Palestinian and I know he sees his children’s faces in every injured Palestinian child. I have another friend whose son is in the...

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