Members of the ad hoc LGBTQIA+, Black and Latinx caucuses of Amherst have recently had the opportunity to welcome Dr. Xiomara Herman as the district’s new superintendent. We feel very encouraged about ...
Editor’s note: This is the last of a three-part series chronicling the current state of the Connecticut River as it runs through Massachusetts, in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to ...
Something weird is going to happen Saturday: It won’t rain. Not raining on Saturdays didn’t used to be weird, but then The Spring of 2025 arrived with orders to dampen our weekends. Dampen them, it ...
Ted Morgan is a retired professor of political science living in Tamworth. This spring’s town meeting season saw what is becoming a regular showdown between irate, tax-burdened citizens and school ...
In these tumultuous times, it is more important than ever that we safeguard and support our civic institutions. In Amherst, one of our most beloved and democratic institutions is the Jones Library. It ...
Amherst poet and children’s author Richard Michelson has often delved into history in some of his books for young readers, such as “The Language of Angels,” the story of how Hebrew became a modern ...
Valley Players, a local volunteer theater group formed earlier this year, will perform their first full production in Amherst this weekend. The show, “Constellations,” by playwright Nick Payne, opened ...
HADLEY — An initial phase of stabilizing the early 19th-century Phelps Farm, a farmhouse that became part of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum in 2022, could depend on support from the town’s ...
Listen to the Birds By Donald Kroodsma, Léna Mazilu, and Yoann Guény; W.W. Norton & Co. Donald Kroodsma, a leading expert on the science of birdsong, once taught biology at the University of ...
I was a participating member of the UMass Faculty Senate vote of no-confidence in the Chancellor Javier Reyes on Monday. I entered the meeting with an open mind and a desire to hear from both sides of ...
Small family farms are more than businesses; they are a way of life, shaped by generations of experience, sacrifice, and resilience. Every field plowed, every seed planted, every harvest gathered ...
AMHERST — New school traffic zones for both the Amherst Regional Middle and High schools are being established by the Town Council. At the middle school, 20 mph signs will installed be on the south ...
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