Gazette reporter Scott Merzbach’s recent front-page story, “Rapid sale of campus land in the works,“ [May 1] is a painful milestone, but as a Hampshire College alum and local resident, I feel a sense of guarded optimism. While Mount Holyoke’s $300,000 annual pledge to South Hadley recently set a “higher floor” for regional town-gown relations, Amherst now faces […]
