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Amherst’s elementary schools facing $500K in cuts

01-25-2024 10:55 AM

AMHERST — More than $500,000 in cuts and other adjustments to the fiscal year 2025 spending plan for Amherst’s elementary schools may be needed, according to preliminary projections presented to the Amherst School Committee last Thursday.The potential...


WinterFest promises ‘eight days of fun’ in Amherst beginning Saturday

01-25-2024 10:57 AM

Hands-on activities and exhibits at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment showing off the wonders of winter, such as properties of frozen water and the shape of snowflakes, kicks off WinterFest 2024 on Saturday morning.A week later, on the...


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Around Amherst: Black History Month events begin with flag raising

Learning from the floods: To prepare for an unpredictable future, Valley farmers think big

Regional bike share program may make return

Guest columnist Maria José Botelho: Obituaries hold time still on others’ lives

Doug Yourga and Jeanne Horrigan: Amherst Senior Center needs help

Guest columnist Dave King: Not heeding anti-militarist message of MLK

Guest columnist John Varner: Opposing Leverett megaproject only common sense

Chalk Talk: The debate around ‘early college’: The success of these programs hinges on cross-school collaboration

Sports
‘More than I could have imagined’: Longtime Amherst College basketball coach Dave Hixon inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame
08-16-2023 7:57 PM

SPRINGFIELD — Basketball gave Dave Hixon everything he could ask for. When the longtime Amherst College men’s coach retired in 2020, his former players and friends made him an hour and a half long video thanking him for his impact on their lives.“I...

Amherst’s Ryan Leonard goes to Washington Capitals at No. 8 in NHL Draft
07-06-2023 12:29 PM

Stars and stripes suit Ryan Leonard, apparently.The Washington Capitals, with their red white and blue color scheme, selected the Amherst native with the eighth overall pick in Wednesday’s NHL Draft at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Leonard...

Call him ‘goal-oriented’: Amherst hockey prodigy Ryan Leonard likely a top 10 NHL Draft pick
06-27-2023 4:59 PM

AMHERST — John Leonard calls his youngest son Ryan “goal-oriented.”As much as Amherst’s Ryan Leonard excels at putting the hockey puck in the net, his father is referring to aspirations and desired achievements.“He keeps a lot of the goals to himself,...

H.S. Football Preview: Offensive firepower has Amherst optimistic about 2023 season
09-14-2023 10:46 AM

During the second-to-last regular season football game a year ago, Amherst matched up with Holyoke on a Friday night in Amherst. Both teams lit up the scoreboard. The Hurricanes had no answer for Purple Knights quarterback Gavier “NeNe” Fernandez, as...

UMass legend Julius Erving makes Western Mass. appearance at Basketball Hall of Fame
08-31-2023 5:20 PM

SPRINGFIELD — The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame hadn’t been as packed all summer. Hundreds of basketball aficionados across several generations poured onto center court and filled the bleachers to listen intently to a legend of the...

Opinion
Jeff Lee: Amherst needs info before raising Jones borrowing cap
11-29-2023 8:43 PM

Next week the Amherst Town Council will be deciding whether to add $9,860,100 to the $35.3 million borrowing authorization it approved in 2021 to pay for a renovation and expansion of the Jones Library that has been years in planning. Given Amherst’s...

Guest column with Jena Schwartz: Protecting the wrong people in Amherst
07-20-2023 6:33 PM

On July 13, just as abruptly as he announced he’d be going on indefinite medical leave two months ago, Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools superintendent Mike Morris announced that he’d been “cleared to return to work.”He referenced the community...

Guest columnist Sarah Matthews: FirstLight sweeping public comment aside
07-06-2023 12:35 PM

An opinion piece was recently published in this paper by an executive at FirstLight Power, the company that owns the Turners Falls Dam and Northfield Pumped Storage Hydropower Station [“Setting the record straight on flows and fish passage...

Guest columnists Mandi Jo Hanneke and Pat DeAngelis: The missing middle in Amherst housing
06-20-2023 7:06 PM

Amherst needs more housing. We need housing for the students who liven up our town, for families who send their kids to our public schools, for retirees who wish to age in place, and for service workers who want to live near where they work.To address...

Columnist Russ Vernon-Jones: Vote ‘yes’ for the new school in Amherst
05-01-2023 11:26 AM

I was principal of the Fort River School in Amherst for 18 years. I’m passionate about education and about solving the climate crisis. The proposed new school in Amherst is a major step forward in both. I’m asking all of you who are voters in Amherst...

Arts & Life
Crossing borders: Hadley author’s short story collection explores the human stories behind immigration
01-11-2024 11:09 AM

On the U.S.-Mexican border, a desperate mother sends her young daughter alone across a bridge over the Rio Grande to try make it into Texas. In New York City, a Jewish woman confronts the hole in her heart when she thinks of her former Muslim husband,...

HomeBoxAlt Just a big kid at art: Carle Museum showcases children’s book art of legendary graphic designer Seymour Chwast
11-29-2023 8:37 PM

Seymour Chwast turned 92 this summer. But in his heart, he might still be about 8 or 9 years old, based on the work he continues to create.A legendary graphic designer who, beginning in the 1950s, helped revolutionize the look of commercial art,...

Soaring toward success: 3,000 feet in the air, Valley teens learn leadership, responsibility in Civil Air Patrol’s cadet program
08-09-2023 4:14 PM

High above the Pioneer Valley and the rolling hills of the Berkshires on a hazy evening, rising Northampton High School senior James Bertone-Johnson made an announcement to the other two passengers.“I have controls.”At that moment, nearly 3,000 feet...

A piece of the Oscar action: Three ARHS graduates have hands in Academy Award-nominated documentaries
03-06-2023 10:24 AM

The Academy Awards are almost upon us, and with it comes the endless handicapping and speculation on who will win best actor and actress, who’s likely to be voted best director, and which film will score an Oscar for best picture of the year.But...

HomeBoxAlt Book Bag: ‘Kindling’ by Kathleen Jennings; ‘And the Trees Talked Back’ by Frederick J. Burns
01-25-2024 11:06 AM

KindlingBy Kathleen JenningsSmall Beer Press Kathleen Jennings had already made a name for herself as a talented illustrator of fantasy books when she began writing her own stories some years back — and it turns out she can spin some magical tales of...

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