Ready to roll on roads: Amherst priority list tees up $4.55M to rebuild some of town’s worst stretches

04-03-2025 8:27 PM

AMHERST — “Rough road” signs along West Bay Road, at the edge of the Hampshire College campus near the Eric Carle Museum, warn drivers about the worsening condition of the travel lanes, which feature broken pavement, ruts and cracks, and an endless series of potholes that have been patched, repatched and patched again.


Feedback mixed for 3-building, 140 housing units near Atkins Corner in Amherst

04-03-2025 8:29 PM

AMHERST — A proposal to develop three four-story, mixed-use buildings on Hampshire College land near Atkins Corner is receiving mostly praise from members of the Planning Board, even as some residents who live nearby worry about the height of the buildings and the possibility that the apartments will be occupied by college students, rather than families.


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