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Bluegrass lovers, rejoice: Monthly CitySpace Bluegrass jam session starts Feb. 1
01-30-2025 7:16 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Bluegrass music (like this reporter) is native to the American South, but starting this week, it’ll have a new home here in the Valley.

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UMass planning major public-private campus housing overhaul
01-30-2025 7:28 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes is seeking a new public-private partnership that could bring to the University of Massachusetts campus affordable, mixed-use housing for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as possible options for non-students — an initiative that could reduce the pressure on the area’s housing stock.


Amherst-Pelham teachers union cites support for superintendent in wake of allegations
01-30-2025 7:28 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A week after the release of an anonymous letter highly critical of Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman’s management of the central office, the executive board for the union representing teachers, paraprofessionals and clerical staff released a statement last Friday supporting Herman and applauding her efforts to bring transparency and financial stability to the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools.


Amherst Board of Health seeks suite of stricter tobacco regs
01-30-2025 7:28 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Restricting the sale of oral nicotine pouches to adults-only tobacco stores, increasing the minimum price of cigars to be consistent with state regulations, and not allowing a tobacco retailer to move within 1,000 feet of an existing business selling tobacco are among changes being considered for the town’s rules related to sale of tobacco and vape products.


Outside report calls UMass protest breakup reasonable but tweaks Reyes on handling of it
01-30-2025 7:28 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — University of Massachusetts officials acted reasonably and prudently in breaking up pro-Gaza encampments on campus last spring, but different enforcement tactics might have cut down on the number of arrests, as well as reduced the fraying of trust between students, faculty and staff and the UMass administration, according to an independent review released this month.


Around Amherst: Seniors renew push for more usable Senior Center
01-30-2025 7:26 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Senior citizens active with the Council on Aging are renewing appeals for town assistance to modernize and improve the Bangs Community Center.


The Lehrer Report: Jan. 30, 2025
01-30-2025 7:26 PM

Reminder: Since Feb. 1 is a Saturday, real estate taxes are due Monday, Feb. 3.


New owners: No concrete plans for former Hadley farm stand
01-30-2025 7:26 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A former farm stand and ice cream parlor at 10 Rocky Hill Road, with 1.4 acres of farmland and a parking lot to accommodate 15 vehicles, was sold for $179,000 at a foreclosure auction Thursday morning.


Dead geese at UMass had bird flu
01-30-2025 7:26 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The first two cases of bird flu on the University of Massachusetts campus were discovered over the weekend of Jan. 18-19 when two deceased Canadian geese tested positive for disease, the university announced.


Guest columnist Peter Lambdin: On some things, there’s just no middle ground
01-30-2025 7:24 PM

By PETER LAMDIN

 


Guest column: DCR should abandon Shutesbury cutting plans
01-30-2025 7:24 PM

By LYNNE MAN, NANCY POLAN and DALE LABONTE


Barry De Jasu: Do people really think Trump cares about them?
01-30-2025 7:23 PM

Day one of the second Donald Trump presidency has passed. On it, Trump promised start helping people immediately. Let’s look at just what he did do on his first day.


Jeffrey Fishman: Violence toward police normalized
01-30-2025 7:23 PM

It will be recorded in the archives of history that on Jan. 21, 2025, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, were whitewashed from the legal record. Concurrently, violence against police officers and destruction to government property was condoned and pardoned.


Teresa Amabile: Healey’s shameful budget proposals
01-30-2025 7:23 PM

There is much to applaud in the budget proposal that Gov. Maura Healey released on Wednesday, such as funding to implement the state’s Student Opportunity Act, but I am alarmed that two provisions in this budget could bring real harm to some of the most vulnerable residents of our commonwealth.


Amherst Public Shade Tree Committee: Build for people and trees in Amherst
01-30-2025 7:23 PM

The Amherst Public Shade Tree Committee would like to express our belief that Amherst must create zoning regulations that encourage space for trees and pedestrians. and preserves frontage space adequate for mature trees in downtown and village centers. When buildings are set too close to roads — as seen downtown at apartment complexes on Triangle and Spring Streets — the resulting environment becomes harsh and unfriendly. The public sidewalks are pushed against tall buildings and there is insufficient land to support mature shade trees. Even if trees and shrubs are planted, they may not survive where the space is inadequate.


Shutesbury, Hadley lauded for digital inclusion ‘trailblazers’
01-30-2025 7:22 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Both Shutesbury and Hadley are being recognized as Digital Inclusion Trailblazers by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance for their efforts to close the digital divide for residents by providing access to affordable, high-speed internet and digital skills training.


Nominations open for Hadley positions in May 20 election
01-30-2025 7:22 PM

HADLEY — Nomination forms for those interested in running for elective office in the town’s May 20 annual election are available at the town clerk’s office.


‘The road to hell starts with good intentions’: New opera tells the story of Northampton’s notorious revivalist preacher, Jonathan Edwards
01-30-2025 7:22 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher whose legacy has endured through centuries. He was the first minister in Northampton to baptize African Americans, yet he did not free those he enslaved. He was a loving husband, yet he supported complementarianism, a theological belief that gender roles are ordained by God. And his work inspired several suicides.


Book detailing ‘Hands Across the Hills’ initiative to be formally released on Saturday in Leverett
01-30-2025 7:22 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A project featuring events and dialogues bringing together western Massachusetts progressives and residents with more conservative views from eastern Kentucky, gaining both national and international attention over the course of seven years, is being chronicled in a new book.


Earth Matters: Exploring the behaviors of wintering birds: Adaptations ensure survival in freezing temperatures
01-30-2025 7:22 PM

By TOM LITWIN

During migration season this past fall, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, using Nexrad weather radar, tracked approximately 4 billion birds migrating from Canada into the U.S. and 4.7 million birds leaving the U.S. for the tropics. Clearly one strategy for dealing with New England weather is to leave it behind. But other species’ strategies have traded the benefits and perils posed by thousands of miles of travel for the benefits and perils of northern winters.


Hadley fire chief pitches full ambulance service starting in 2026
01-30-2025 7:19 PM

HADLEY — By Jan. 1, 2026, Hadley firefighters could be running both a primary Advanced Life Support ambulance and a back-up Basic Life Support ambulance, if a plan proposed by Fire Chief Michael Spanknebel for staffing up the department gets support from town officials and voters this spring.

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