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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Until taking the oath of U.S. citizenship Tuesday morning, Tashi Dhondup of Amherst had been without a country since 1959, when he left Tibet during the Tibetan uprising and took refuge in Nepal.Eleven years after coming to the United...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Live music, various street performers including acrobats and jugglers, and a variety of food will bring a section of North Pleasant Street to life for four hours on Thursday.From 5 to 9 p.m., the section of the main thoroughfare through...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Jones Library Director Sharon Sharry’s dedication to the Jones Library, its staff and patrons, and her continued planning for a renovated and expanded main branch, is being recognized with an exemplary annual performance review from the...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — As Tree House Brewing Co.’s concert season comes to a close this week, the town is preparing to work with the company to plan for 2025 as noise complaints to Town Hall have increased.Several residents appeared before the Deerfield...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A Jersey Mike’s Subs shop could be coming to a Route 9 shopping plaza.The Planning Board Tuesday agreed to waive additional site plan review for a change in use proposed at the 355 Russell St. strip mall to accommodate the restaurant, which...
By SARA WEINBERGER and JEFF GOLD
We were initially swept up in the wave of enthusiasm that took hold when Vice President Kamala Harris became presidential candidate Kamala Harris. She was a breath of fresh air, who rekindled hope that she and Tim Walz could reignite the Democratic...
By RICHARD MCCARTHY
Sometimes life teaches you things you never wanted to know.As I alluded to in a previous column, I broke my femur, or thigh bone, this past March 25th, when I went down on a patch of ice while bicycling. For those of you who do not know, the femur is...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Music from centuries-old folk songs and contemporary and classical tunes emanates through the hallway at the Bangs Community Center on a recent morning, as some of the autoharp players hold the instrument upright against their shoulders and below...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Maintaining and improving existing public housing properties is an ongoing challenge for local housing authorities with limited resources, an issue that housing advocates and professionals are hopeful the state’s $5.16 billion housing...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Hadley school leaders got an up-close look at Smith College’s geothermal project late last month as the school district explores the possibility of adapting the technology for heating and cooling its own Hopkins Academy.Announced...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The Amherst Historical Commission is accepting cost-saving measures in the plans for the expanded and renovated Jones Library, including removal of a skylight from the roof, use of synthetic slate shingles and streamlined landscaping.The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Enslaved from 1770 to 1776 at the Forty Acres homestead in Hadley, now known as The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum, Caesar Phelps wrote a letter from Fort Ticonderoga, where he was serving in the Continental Army, to his owner, Charles Phelps,...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst police are paying tribute to K-9 Dash, the department’s first canine member following his recent death from heart disease, after almost 10 years of service that ranged from helping to identify criminal suspects to locating missing...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A geothermal energy project to heat and cool all buildings on the Amherst College campus is underway, with some of the coming work of boring holes down 850 feet to be visible for passers-by on College Street throughout 2025.Along with an...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — How the future streetscape and public and private properties will look in downtown Amherst, where so-called infill mixed-use projects have been built in recent years and a new five-story building is under construction, is the focus of new...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Giving the Demonstration Response and Safety Team at the University of Massachusetts an expanded role in promoting safety, education and deescalation at protests, clarifying the campus land-use policy by defining structures according to...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — For decades, it was assumed the federally endangered shortnose sturgeon did not live upstream of the Turners Falls dam on the Connecticut River, although two confirmed sightings in 2017 and 2022 raised some compelling evidence.New...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
A nearly $700,000 grant from the National Park Service, awarded in advance of the country’s 250th birthday in 2026, will help the nonprofit Friends of North Leverett Sawmill continue to restore the town’s pre-Revolutionary War sawmill.The $683,500...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — The Blueberry Patch, a former Christmas tree farm where beef cattle were raised many years ago, is a popular place to walk, pick blueberries and enjoy nature and birding — and for years visitors have done just that, taking advantage of easy...
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