Opinion
Editorial: A chief's legacy of public safety
July 3, 2009
Since 9/11, assessing Americans' sense of safety has meant tracking threats from abroad. But for a small community's police chief, homeland security is all about the hometown. And for the last nine years, as Amherst's police chief, that has been Charles Scherpa's world.
A Sideways Glance: On love's peek-a-boo nature
July 3, 2009
Recently, within the space of a few days, two men who used to know me some 20 years ago happened to meet me on the streets of Amherst. Each greeted me and remarked on how much they appreciated the spiritual elements of my essay "Huckabee helps the liberation" (Bulletin, Feb. 6).
Letters
July 3, 2009
More fortunate should step up
To the Bulletin: It always amazes me that there are people who feel that it is the duty of those less well off than them to sacrifice.
Editorial: Making a final year the best it can be
June 26, 2009
Having made the decision to close Mark's Meadow School after next year, Amherst educators owe it to students and families to bring a tradition to a respectful and meaningful end.
Amherst Center: The overriding issue
June 26, 2009
We're ready to cry uncle! We're closing a school. We're closing two pools. We've practically stopped fixing potholes. We've eliminated all town funding of human service agencies, slashed recreation support, cut senior center staff. We are cutting 50 school positions, dozens of town positions, a boatload of child and elderly programs. Uncle!
Don't price youth out of summer
June 26, 2009
This essay was prepared by the Amherst Human Rights Commission.
The Amherst Human Rights Commission will offer a motion to add to the Amherst town budget $50,000 to be used as scholarship aid for low-income children in Leisure Services and Supplemental Education programs.
Professor feels at home in town's 'peaceable kingdom'
June 26, 2009
Sorry, Berkeley, Montreal, Washington, D.C., and Boston: You just lost out, in that order, to Amherst as the top college town in North America, according to Katherine Cohen, founder and CEO of IvyWise and ApplyWise.com.
Greeney responds to Bulletin editorial
June 26, 2009
To the Bulletin: I am humbled by the praises mentioned in the June 12 Amherst Bulletin editorial of my work with Not Bread Alone. However, there are some factual errors and overstatement contained in the piece.
Letters
June 26, 2009
A whisper in a windstorm
To the Bulletin: I am a fifth-grade English language arts and social studies teacher in Ware. I grew up and went to school before there was "rigorous evaluation of curricula." Our English (a horribly un-PC name) curriculum consisted of a series of small Warriner's textbooks and handful of novels taught by a variety draft-dodging men.
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