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Guest columnist Darcy Dumont: A year of climate wake-up calls
02-09-2025 11:02 AM

By DARCY DUMONT

 

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Amherst school budget best-case scenario: 17 positions gone
02-10-2025 4:21 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Unless state aid increases, other sources of funding are found or member towns can contribute more, a fiscal year 2026 budget that eliminates around 17 positions may be the best-case scenario for the Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools, according to information presented at a “Four Towns Meeting” Saturday.


Amherst schools’ rank-and-file elementary union members break with leaders over support of superintendent
02-10-2025 4:17 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A significant majority of elementary school teachers, paraprofessionals and clerical staff are disavowing a recent statement, released by the executive board for the Amherst-Pelham Education Association, offering support to Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman in the face of allegations made by 12 administrators whose identities have not been made public.


Praise, criticism for proposed tobacco changes in Amherst; some want town to adopt nicotine-free generation
02-09-2025 1:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Revised regulations on the sale of tobacco products in Amherst drafted by the Board of Health, including restricting oral nicotine pouches to adults-only tobacco stores, is winning both praise and criticism from the public, with advocates for curtailing access to tobacco calling for the town to bolster the rules by adopting a nicotine-free generation measure.


Swimming: Northampton’s Amalia Guerra wins 2 more titles at Central/West Sectional Championships
02-08-2025 7:18 PM

By RYAN AMES

SPRINGFIELD – When the pressure was on, Amalia Guerra delivered.


Boys hockey: Noah Latulippe’s first varsity goal lifts Amherst past Easthampton 2-1 (PHOTOS)
02-07-2025 7:40 PM

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — Leading 2-1 late in the third period, the Amherst Regional boys hockey team just had to hang on for another two minutes to sweep the season series with Easthampton on Friday afternoon at Lossone Rink.


Amherst man pleads guilty to child porn charges
02-07-2025 2:14 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An Amherst man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts.


Around Amherst: Historical Society salutes people behind Cambodian exhibit
02-07-2025 1:02 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Organizers of the “Cambodians in Amherst: A History of the Khmer Community” exhibit in 2024 at the Strong House are earning the Amherst Historical Society’s annual Arthur F. Kinney Conch Shell award.


Planting hope in the garden: Artist Carrie Mae Weems, who named a peony for W.E.B. Du Bois, dreamed of a memorial garden
02-07-2025 10:44 AM

By LORETTA YARLOW

In 2013, the widely acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems — a charismatic artist, activist and educator, known for installations, videos and photographs that invite the viewer to reflect on issues of race, gender and class — was among 10 artists commissioned to participate in “Du Bois in Our Time,” an exhibition I curated when I was director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


High school notebook: Amherst seeking big performance at next week’s MIAA Nordic Championships
02-06-2025 6:41 PM

By RYAN AMES

The 2025 MIAA Nordic Ski Championship meet is fast approaching and the Amherst boys and girls teams are gearing up for their final race of the winter.


Guest column: UMass protest response review was just a whitewash
02-06-2025 4:36 PM

By KEVIN A. YOUNG

 


Amherst College giving $2.5M to the town over next three years
02-06-2025 4:22 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $2.5 million donation from Amherst College will support the Amherst and regional schools, the town’s emergency services, and infrastructure work downtown over the next three years, as well as one of two municipal building projects the town is undertaking.


New digs: Innovintage Place moves to old Kelly’s restaurant in Amherst after six years in Greenfield
02-06-2025 10:52 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

AMHERST — As a teenager, Skye Wellington frequented Kelly’s restaurant, a nearly 30-year mainstay of a College Street business plaza until closing near the end of 2022.


Amherst town manager sounds alarm over looming 20% insurance hike
02-05-2025 4:30 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst is facing a much larger than anticipated increase in health insurance costs for fiscal year 2026, with a projected jump of almost 20%, at the top range allowed for the town’s insurer, the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association.


Jeff Clark: Get ready for the clean energy future
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

I beg to differ on a few points in the Jan. 30 guest column ”Just not ready for clean energy future” by Stephen Fox. First, Gov. Maura Maura Healey and the Legislature are quite aware of the concerns he lays out and are addressing the challenges of climate changes. They are putting policies in place to get us to net zero (i.e., not producing more carbon than the environment can sequester) by 2050.


David Schmidt: Yes, you are missing something
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

In David Murphy’s Jan. 31 guest column ”All-electric rule: Costlier homes, worse efficiency” he erroneously calculates the overall efficiency of heating a home with electricity from the grid and compares it to the efficiency of the natural gas furnace in his basement. He concludes that Ordinance 24.170 would force homeowners to rely on electric heating that is 60% efficient rather than a home furnace that is roughly 90% efficient. He asks, “Am I missing something?” The answer is a definitive “Yes.”


Amherst hires inspector as it ramps up rental oversight program
02-04-2025 3:57 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — After more than a decade of rental housing oversight in Amherst being complaint-driven, with no regular evaluations of the habitability of rental properties, a more rigorous process that will lead to all apartments being inspected every five years starts July 1.


High schools: Noah Hambley, Jack Loughrey help South Hadley boys get past Amherst
02-03-2025 9:29 PM

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — The South Hadley boys basketball team hung on to clip Amherst, 60-49, Monday night.


Tariffs on pause as experts call idea ‘unsettling’
02-03-2025 6:26 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH and SAMUEL GELINAS

The ever-shifting tariff landscape took a turn late Monday, as the U.S. agreed to pause tariffs on Canada for 30 days, several hours after agreeing to do the same with Mexico. China, meanwhile, was also preparing to talk trade with President Donald J. Trump about impending tariffs on its goods.


A fire to remember: 50 years on, firefighters recall bad Amherst College fraternity blaze
02-03-2025 1:29 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Printed the day after an early morning fire gutted an Amherst College fraternity house, a headline in the Feb. 3, 1975 Daily Hampshire Gazette quoted the Amherst fire chief describing the incident as the “worst Amherst blaze in 15 years.”


UMass launches federal actions webpage to inform community of Trump administration actions
02-02-2025 1:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A briefly considered White House federal funding freeze order and other possible changes in how federal money is disbursed, including for grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion projects, is prompting University of Massachusetts leaders to keep researchers regularly updated about possible funding shortfalls and disruptions to their ongoing work.

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