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Amherst makes new round of ARPA grants available to new businesses and for professional services
01-20-2023 9:25 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A second round of new business and technical assistance grants, using federal American Rescue Plan Act money that came to Amherst, is being initiated this winter.Amherst Business Improvement District Executive Director Gabrielle Gould...


Mandela’s grandson celebrates King’s legacy at UMass
01-20-2023 9:24 PM

By EMILY THURLOW

AMHERST — The light from the torch for social justice burned bright as the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated at the University of Massachusetts on Tuesday morning.The inaugural “Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Racial Healing Community...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Pondering my life’s habits
01-20-2023 9:22 PM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

This past fall, I was bicycling in Hadley and I came up on a dead squirrel in the road. I got off my bike and used the instep of my foot to move the remains to the edge of a field on the side of the road. Two other cyclists approached me as I was...


Yogurt mogul, alum gifts $1M to Hampshire College
01-20-2023 9:22 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $1 million donation from the co-founder of Stonyfield Organic is pushing the Hampshire College capital campaign to nearly two-thirds of the $60 million goal set for June 2024.The college recently announced that alumnus Gary Hirshberg and...


Get Growing: The importance of talking to plants
01-20-2023 9:20 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

A few years ago I was having coffee with my two sisters-in-law at a family gathering in North Carolina. Both of them had recently built new houses and were quizzing me about how to create gardens in the bare dirt surrounding their homes. The question...


Best Bites 2022: A taste of the finest the Valley has to offer
01-20-2023 9:17 PM

By ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

With a new year of dining ahead, it’s time to boil down all of my last year’s recommendations into a cheat sheet that you can clip or print and stick on your fridge: the best of Best Bites. I’ve picked 40 amazing places to eat and drink in the area...


She sings the hair electric: Photographer uses tintype technique to re-imagine female portraits 
01-20-2023 9:14 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, and what she calls “the feeling of Christmas when...


The Lehrer Report: Jan. 20, 2023
01-20-2023 9:11 PM

Indoor garden report: The amaryllis bulb that was in the refrigerator has a leaf that is 17 inches long. However, the bulb that was not refrigerated has a leaf that is 30 inches long. So far, no blossom buds.* **It’s Girl Scout cookie time. The new...


Around Amherst: Public input on new school project welcome at forums
01-20-2023 9:10 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two public forums on the elementary school project expected to be subject to a Proposition 2½ debt-exclusion override vote in the spring are being held next week.After cost estimates and other updates on the project from the designer and...


Carol Johnson: Grateful pols support for Jones project
01-20-2023 10:01 AM

In her Jan. 6 letter to the editor, Rita Burke refers to the Jones Library as being the 22nd largest public library in Massachusetts as reason to forego state and federal funding for renovation and expansion. In fact, the Jones Library is not the 22nd...


Columnist Tolley Jones: Claiming ownership
01-19-2023 11:16 AM

Two hundred and twenty-two years, seven months, and seven days ago, my ancestor Lucia, an enslaved woman and mother of two small girls, decided to risk capture, beatings, death, and being sold away from her children to escape her enslaver — her abuser...


Stephen Armstrong: House Speakership
01-16-2023 10:44 AM

Two years ago, a crowd of hysterical insurrectionists stormed the Capitol to block the counting of electoral votes. Taking their cue from Trump, 147 distempered Republicans voted to throw a valid election into Never-Never Land. Five police officers...


Elizabeth Vierling: Consistency needed when vetting development 
01-16-2023 10:44 AM

I would like to compliment the Amherst Planning Board and staff on their discussion at the Jan. 4, 2023 meeting of the development by ServiceNet of transitional housing on Belchertown Road. The staff and board engaged in consideration of landscaping...


Guest columnist Robin Jaffin: Instead of a pavilion, give UMass service workers bonuses
01-16-2023 10:44 AM

By Robin Jaffin

While I was walking with my dog around the property and trails that surround the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies building on the UMass campus, I noticed a Bobcat tractor ripping out the perennial beds behind the former Dakin home. I...


Spreading his wings: Former WRSI radio host Monte Belmonte heads to New England Public Media
01-12-2023 2:09 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

SPRINGFIELD — Last month, when he stepped down from WRSI 93.9 The River after nearly 17 years hosting a morning show at the station, Christopher “Monte” Belmonte said he was not stepping away from radio. But the popular radio personality wasn’t ready...


Jones Library panel planning all-gender bathroom
01-12-2023 2:08 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — In an effort to accommodate the widest range of patrons, and limit lines during public events such as after-hour meetings and Burnett Art Gallery openings, the expanded and renovated Jones Library is expected to do away with bathrooms...


Critic of Amherst officials irked at fee for records request
01-12-2023 2:08 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A vocal critic of some members of the Town Council and government officials is describing the town’s latest action to charge her more than $300 to fulfill a public records request “petty and unfortunate.”Vira Douangmany Cage of Longmeadow...


Hot commodity: Liquor license up for grabs in Amherst
01-12-2023 2:08 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — With the first all-alcohol, off-premises liquor license back in the town’s hands in recent memory, those interested in opening a new package store in Amherst are invited to begin submitting applications to obtain it.Town officials announced...


Amherst council: Closed-door meetings with police above-board
01-12-2023 2:08 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Amherst Town Council denies that it violated the state’s Open Meeting Law when it met with police officers in closed-door meetings last month, though some councilors contend that giving the officers a private forum violated the council’s...


Amherst Town Council keeps leadership intact for coming year
01-12-2023 2:08 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Members of the Amherst Town Council are keeping the body’s leadership intact for another year.While the 13 councilors gave near unanimous support to having District 2 Councilor Lynn Griesemer remain as president, a role she has...

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