By ALEXA LEWIS
Imaginary creatures large and small lurk among the leaves as visitors wander through the secret garden that has sprouted in Eastworks. Standing within the Monster Arts Project, it’s easy to forget that the mystical paintings, sculptures, oddities and...
Music fit for a kingThe historical music performance group Arcadia Players will perform “Concerti for a King: Music from the Court of Frederick the Great” at Wesley United Methodist Church, 98 North Maple St., Hadley, on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — On Sunday afternoon, for the first time in well over 100 years, Amherst’s two African American churches will join in a Service of Worship and Fellowship.Starting at 4 p.m. at Hope Community Church, 16 Gaylord St., the congregations of...
By JOSEPH LEVINE
After a year of a genocidal campaign in Gaza in response to the Al Aqsa Flood attacks of Oct. 7 and the recent escalation in Lebanon and beyond, it’s a good time to assess where we’re at, how we got here, and where we’re going.Immediately before the...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — After hearing from more than a dozen speakers earlier this month, as well as submitted written comments, Frontier Regional School’s policy regarding homeschooler participation in extracurricular activities will remain the...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Though it’s been more than two decades since Ross Burns played under John Calipari on UMass’ 1996 “Refuse to Lose” Final Four team, the former walk-on still carries with him lots of lessons from his time with one of the giants of college basketball...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — An Amherst developer’s intent to turn a five-story mixed-use building under construction into housing exclusively for 63 Amherst College students is raising concerns for some observers.While the Planning Board at its Oct. 16 meeting approved...
By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL
AMHERST — As they navigated the steep and rocky terrain of Mount Abraham, members of the UMass Amherst Outing Club struggled together as they carried a 150-pound dog down the mountain on a makeshift stretcher of blankets.It was a beautiful fall day in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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