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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst will celebrate the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival with an event Sunday at the Amherst Regional Middle School auditorium.The Human Rights Commission is sponsoring the celebration, running from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m, that will include a...
How many Americans does it take to change a light bulb? To change one bulb now should only take one of us. However, to change all our bulbs in the coming years will require millions of us — and the best way to initiate that action is through the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A $4.74 million project to rebuild and reorient the track at the Amherst Regional High School, installing a synthetic turf playing field in its interior, can move forward, even though community fundraising is short of the amount needed to...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Area families depending on the Amherst Survival Center for staples like milk, eggs and bread will be among those benefiting from a new delivery van recently bought by the agency.Using $76,500 collected from 117 community members during a...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Despite significant planning over the past two years to relocate sixth graders from the town’s elementary schools to the Amherst Regional Middle School this fall, district leaders are broaching the idea of delaying the move, possibly for...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A resident seeking a variety of communications from town officials over the past several months is providing the town the money to begin the process of getting text messages, rather than appealing to the state’s supervisor of public records...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Whatever model Amherst creates for offering reparations to Black and African heritage residents could set an example for other cities and towns, states and the federal government, according to U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern.Taking part in the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A continued spike in the anticipated costs of building a new elementary school, pushing the total project to well in excess of $100 million, is prompting the Elementary School Building Committee and its design team to begin considering a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Smoke drifting into New England from wildfires in the western United States last summer, tracked by sensors in Holyoke, Greenfield and other area communities, gave residents real-time information about its causing poor air quality.The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated in Amherst this Sunday on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 94th birthday.The Human Rights Commission is sponsoring the event, which begins at 2 p.m....
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