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Amherst Town Council backs more money for schools
Guest columnist Kristin DeBoer: Let’s stand together for the valley you love
Hadley man detained after chemicals go missing
Around Amherst: Wildwood School highlights culture of positivity
The cost of addiction: New novel draws on Valley backdrop to explore how substance use upends people’s lives
Several years ago, Mattea Kramer, an Amherst writer and researcher who’s studied and written about the federal budget as well as drug policies at state and federal levels, spent time interviewing a number of women in the Greenfield jail who were part of a recovery program for substance use.
Valley Bounty: And on that farm she had a bit of everything: Little Brook Farm in Sunderland is a labor of love for farmer Kristen Whittle
Spring is here, and with it are signs of new life on farms around the Valley. Leaves are beginning to bud on fruit trees, farmers are preparing soil for the coming growing season, and at Little Brook Farm in Sunderland, day-old baby lambs are bounding around the lambing barn.
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Transitional housing at risk after New Hampshire lawmakers vote to sell state-owned building
Amherst launches red card campaign for immigrant rights
Feds revoking visas, terminating student statuses of four more UMass students, bringing total to 10
Review finds no major flaws in Franklin County Sheriff’s Office dog shelter proposal
Amherst Town Council approves University Drive overlay district
Amherst adopts new rules to restrict doses in nicotine pouches, but won’t restrict sale of product
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Around Amherst: Students advocate for revised state funding formulas in Boston
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 baseball preview 2025: Hopkins Academy optimistic it can continue postseason success
HADLEY – The Hopkins Academy baseball team has hit the field for the 2025 season and head coach Dan Vreeland is cautiously optimistic in this year’s edition of the Golden Hawks.
HS Lacrosse Preview 2025: Defending champ Amherst girls looking to “re-load”
High school tennis preview 2025: PVCICS loaded again and ready for another postseason run
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 BostonOpinion
Guest columnist U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey: Fighting for our farmers
Western Massachusetts farmers are used to facing and overcoming challenges — from late frosts and damaging storms to droughts and soil erosion, and more. What they’re not accustomed to is the president of the United States standing in their way of earning a living and bolstering our local economies.
Stephen Armstrong: Bird flu, RFK Jr. and the price of eggs
Frances Henry: Ignorance on parade
Guest columnist Ryan Voiland: Slashing of farming, food support senseless
Guest columnist Shalini Bahl: Beyond boycotts — Mindful spending’s real impact
Arts & Life
Let’s Talk Relationships: Uncovering the roots of negative self-talk: What you say to yourself echoes in your relationships
Our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves greatly impact how we feel and act in our close relationships. Humans are the only species that engage in “self-talk.” Many of us find ourselves having both positive thoughts about ourselves (for example, “I feel proud for what I just accomplished”) and other times negative and self-defeating thoughts (such as, “I am not attractive enough”). In my work with couples, it is often the derogatory self-talk that each individual engages in that contributes to the difficult and painful dynamics between partners.
‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
‘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