Alex Galloway takes office as Deerfield Planning and Economic Development Coordinator
Amherst grants more time for comments on environmental review for Jones Library project
Amherst drawing up plans for area north of UMass campus that could triple the number of apartments currently there
Belchertown residents worry $3.3M override request is too high
Five UMass Amherst students have visas, student status revoked
Around Amherst: First Global Village Festival on Town Common Saturday
USDA yanks $3.4M in aid to state food banks
Guest columnist Kathy Gregg: Anti-antisemitism: Trump’s double-cross on college funding
Is Amherst’s town center uptown or downtown?
Those attending a recent ribbon-cutting for the new UMass Downtown retail store and event space in Amherst center were invited to an afterparty at the Uptown Tap & Grille, which despite having a seemingly different geographical designation, is a neighboring business in the same building.
Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Paving over historic beauty: A history of the White House Rose Garden that Trump plans to rip up
I wonder how closely Joni Mitchell follows the news. Did the headline “Trump Turns the White House Lawn into a Tesla Showroom” catch her eye? Trump’s craven gesture is about as close as you can get to “paving paradise and putting up a parking lot.”
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Amherst draft housing plan calls for between 265-715 new units in five years
Earth Matters: Learning a sense of wonder: The importance of outdoor experiences in the natural world in our youth
Boosting a shared mission: $300K influx will expand work of Tapestry, Craig’s Doors
Here to help the community’s artists: Human Scale Art Space aims to advance visual arts in the Pioneer Valley
Sports
High school tennis preview 2025: PVCICS loaded again and ready for another postseason run
HADLEY — Lee Ferguson didn’t just take Hampshire County and western Massachusetts by storm last spring; try the entire state. Ferguson, now a seventh grader on the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School boys tennis team, wasn’t much taller than the net last year. Just a sixth grader then, he wasn’t as physically developed as his opponents on the court.
UMass Men’s Basketball: Three Minutemen enter transfer portal
Amherst’s Ryan Leonard makes NHL debut for Washington Capitals in 4-3 win over Bruins in Boston
“Instilling an expectation of success:” How Greg Carvel became UMass hockey program’s all time winningest coach
Amherst’s 4x400-meter relay team captures title at 37th annual New England Interscholastic Indoor Track & Field Championships Opinion
Guest columnist Ryan Voiland: Slashing of farming, food support senseless
The following speech was delivered by Ryan Voiland at a farmers’ rally opposing cuts to USDA and other federal programs that are negatively impacting farms and agriculture in the region and around the country. The rally took place on Sunday, March 23 in front of Hadley Town Hall.
Guest columnist Shalini Bahl: Beyond boycotts — Mindful spending’s real impact
Elisa K. Campbell: Thoughts on driving through Northampton
Angela Parker: A favor to ask — remember those fighting long Covid
Guest columnist David E. Sullivan: A duty to call out demeaning immigrants and the rule of law
Arts & Life
‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running through Friday, May 9, aims to show some of that impact and create conversations about how artists respond to it with their work.
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11
Macbeth, up close and personal: Second annual Montague Shakespeare Festival puts a new spin on the ‘psychological dark power drama’
From the field to your screens: Two seniors take Frontier Community Access Television’s sports broadcasting to new heights
Amherst Cinema to scale back offerings amid financial deficits