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Committee on board with Amherst Regional school merger proposal
10-21-2024 12:06 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The idea of moving seventh and eighth graders to Amherst Regional High School, potentially turning the Amherst Regional Middle School building into an innovation center, is being greeted with cautious optimism by members of the Regional...


Amherst council adopts tougher nuisance property bylaw
10-21-2024 12:06 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Municipal building inspectors and town police officers will soon have a mechanism for ensuring problem properties that affect the quality of life in Amherst neighborhoods, such as residences holding frequent loud parties with underage...


Amherst Regional board backs ending MCAS requirement for graduation
10-21-2024 12:06 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A referendum question on the state’s November election ballot seeking to eliminate the requirement that public high school students pass the MCAS test to graduate is being endorsed by the Amherst Regional School Committee.The committee voted...


UMass geothermal power project alarms residents
10-21-2024 12:06 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Drilling of geothermal wells in Lot 31 off Governors Drive is set to begin next month at the University of Massachusetts, a project that will allow two large classroom buildings under construction to be powered by renewable energy when they...


Leena’s Place in Belchertown faces state alcohol violation for allegedly serving 22 shots of liquor to underage employees
10-21-2024 12:06 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown restaurant is facing charges for allegedly serving 22 shots of liquor to three underage employees over a six-hour period in early August, one of whom got into a car crash while driving under the influence in Ludlow a short...


The Lehrer Report: Oct. 17, 2024
10-21-2024 12:03 PM

Garden report: The beds have been cleared, the fences taken up. I picked some green tomatoes, which will turn red, so the harvest continues for a bit. Ironically, there was a blossom on a tomato stalk.The begonias will be brought inside. I don’t...


Belchertown police chief appeals gun license ruling
10-21-2024 12:02 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Police Chief Kevin Pacunas is appealing an Eastern Hampshire District Court judge’s ruling that reversed his decision to deny a resident’s application for a gun license.In his appeal to Hampshire Superior Court, filed Sept. 23, Pacunas...


Around Amherst: Chamber picks honorees for annual A+ Awards
10-21-2024 12:02 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Several individuals in Amherst and the region, including a longtime educator at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment and a former executive director of the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, are being recognized as part of the...


Amherst Cinema workers press for salary bump
10-21-2024 12:02 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Employees with the Amherst Cinema Workers United are pushing for salary changes to the existing contract with management of the nonprofit cinema so that the 13 members of the front-of-house staff, who oversee the box office and concessions...


Shutesbury town administrator offered job in Sunderland
10-21-2024 12:02 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — After four consecutive interviews with finalists for the vacant town administrator position, the Select Board has settled on Shutesbury Town Administrator Rebecca Torres.In a unanimous vote, the Sunderland Select Board voted to put...


Courtney Cullen: Ditch trunk or treat
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

Trunk or treat ruins Halloween, and I’ve come prepared to back that up. As a child of the ‘80s, there was nothing more exciting than Halloween night. I grew up in a mid-size neighborhood in Appalachia full of a community of ghoulish enthusiasts. I’m...


Brooks Ballenger and Josna Rege: Support the Haitian Bridge Alliance as it fights a racist disinformation campaign
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

J.D. Vance and Donald Trump have been traveling the United States attacking Haitian American immigrants with disinformation and racist fantasies. According to the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, a grassroots immigrant advocacy group that has filed...


Guest columnist Robin Goldstein: Listen to our restaurant workers and save their livelihoods by voting ‘no’ on Ballot Question 5
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

 Imagine this: a high-paid, Ivy League-educated lawyer and nonprofit executive from Los Angeles shows up in Massachusetts and claims that our restaurant workers are being paid a “sub-minimum wage” that’s below the state minimum wage. To solve this...


Virtual event Tuesday to launch Hands Across the Hills book
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A seven-year effort to bring together progressives in western Massachusetts and more conservative residents of rural eastern Kentucky, for conversations and sometimes intense dialogues about their political and cultural differences, is...


Deerfield Town Meeting voters OK $3.8M for 1888 Building while St. James Church draws discussion
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With $3.8 million in Community Preservation Act money approved, the 1888 Building rehabilitation project can move forward.While the big-ticket project was approved with no discussion, it was a housekeeping article regarding the St. James...


State reports 100% negative results for bird flu in dairy herds
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By MARA MELLITS

Earlier this year, a nationwide outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in cows caused panic for dairy farmers everywhere. Now, Massachusetts has become the only state to test all of its dairy herds, from 95 farms, and achieve 100% negative...


Granby voters to consider new leash laws, property tax work off program at special TM on Monday
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A special Town Meeting next week will give residents a chance to approve a property tax work-off program for seniors and veterans and adopt a new animal control bylaw with stricter leash laws.Voters will discuss the six-article warrant...


Valley Bounty: Beans are her thing: Five years in, Heather McCann of Rustic Outlook Farm has launched her own bean club
10-21-2024 11:58 AM

By JACOB NELSON

When Heather McCann founded her Belchertown farm, Rustic Outlook, in 2020, she picked a niche that few local farmers have chosen. She decided to make beans her thing.Dry beans, specifically. They’re a pantry staple that lasts for years and a delicious...


UMass Medical School professor co-recipient of Nobel Prize
10-21-2024 11:57 AM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTLAND, Vt. — Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and raised on a family farm in Hartland, Vermont, University of Massachusetts Medical School professor Victor Ambros said his early life prepared him for life as a scientist.“Farmers are...


‘A beautiful time of the year’: New state foliage map helps residents, tourists make autumn plans
10-21-2024 11:56 AM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

As peak fall foliage season arrives, experts predict a season as brilliant as ever.“The fall in New England is notoriously beautiful, and we have no reason to doubt that we’re going to have another beautiful fall foliage display this October,” says...

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