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‘Home away from home’: North Amherst Library officially dedicated, as anonymous donor of $1.7M revealed
Funding will limit ARHS track/field makeover to cheapest option
Town manager’s plan shorts Amherst Regional Schools’ budget
New Hopkins Academy athletic fields nearing completion
Ken Rosenthal: Time to change direction on Jones Library
Guest columnist Dr. Meghan Gump: Dear Patients — We hear you!
Guest columnist Marietta Pritchard: Landlines and more in our parallel universe
UMass chancellor defends protest crackdown, arrests
AMHERST — University of Massachusetts Chancellor Javier Reyes defended the arrests of 134 people at a campus pro-Palestinian encampment last week, telling a special session of the Faculty Senate on Tuesday afternoon that the decision to break up the...
Jones trustees ask Amherst town manager to reject library bid
AMHERST — Trustees for the Jones Library are recommending that the lone bid for renovating and expanding the Jones Library, which is at least $6.5 million above projected costs, should be rejected.In 6-0 vote, the elected trustees advised Town Manager...
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Political newcomer defeats Shores Ness for Deerfield Selectboard seat
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Plans to overhaul Amherst’s War Memorial Pool site questioned
Deerfield’s Tilton Library expansion ‘takes a village’
Overlooked no more: Leverett artist’s woodcut prints celebrate remarkable women of the past
Guest columnist Laura Briggs: Why send police to halt a peaceful protest at UMass?
Sports
The Real Score: Curveballs and casinos rarely save cities
About 10 years ago, the two major urban centers of central and western Massachusetts decided to engage in new regional industrial policy to spur on their local economies. Worcester and Springfield had been effectively hollowed out by decades of...
Defying the odds: Hadley’s Owen Earle back competing less than two years removed from horrific accident
Guest columnist Karen List: A legend made in Iowa
UMass basketball: Josh Cohen, Robert Davis Jr. first Minutemen to enter transfer portal
UMass confirms sports programs moving to the Mid-American Conference as it becomes 13th memberOpinion
Guest columnist Rudy Perkins: Dangerous resolution pins ‘aggression’ on Iran
Both the Iranian government’s bombing of Israel and the Israeli government’s bombing of Iran are extremely perilous for the Middle East and the United States. That is why the dangerously one-sided U.S. congressional resolution, H.Res. 1143,...
Richard S. Bogartz: What the ghosts of Warsaw Ghetto know
Guest columnist Dr. David Gottsegen: Age issue not so key as question of marbles
Guest columnist Martha Hanner: Spirit of philanthropy can uplift so many others
Guest columnist Ali Wicks-Lim: Racism is in our way
Arts & Life
A DIY approach to flying: Local pilots build and help build their own aircraft
If you build it … you can fly it, too.As Peter Elsea and Jason Lorusso have discovered in recent years, there’s a special satisfaction in building your own plane — or at least assisting in that construction — that can make the experience of flying...
You’re up next: Western Mass open mic scene heats up post-pandemic
One upon a story slam: This year’s Valley Voices winners head to a final competition
Preserving a key part of Emily Dickinson’s legacy: Historic Evergreens house reopens at the Emily Dickinson Museum
The Beat Goes On: Chamber music at The Drake, a Saint Patrick’s weekend musical smorgasbord, and more