Tracing slavery’s stain: UMass’ Slavery North initiative exploring region’s ties from new campus home

01-06-2025 11:00 AM

AMHERST — In both Hadley and Northampton, as well in as other communities throughout the Connecticut River Valley, Black women were among those enslaved by the region’s European settlers in the 1600s and by those living in Massachusetts until slavery...


Mixed-use project cut to single building

01-06-2025 11:00 AM

AMHERST — Citing the high costs for steel, which may go up even more due to uncertainty around tariffs, an Amherst developer is scaling back a mixed-use development at the corner of Amity Street and University Drive on the edge of the UMass campus.The...


Amherst Bulletin Drops

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Boys basketball preview: New Belchertown coach has high expectations for Orioles
12-24-2024 1:10 PM

After spending the last several years as head coach of the Hopkins Academy boys basketball team, Jim Hart is now in charge of a different Hampshire County program just up the road. Hart accepted the Belchertown job in the offseason, and after speaking...

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Guest column: Let’s move on from Jones Library divisions
12-15-2024 11:24 PM

Let’s move on from Jones Library divisions

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