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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Revisions to the town’s zoning bylaws should make it easier for restaurants, bars and nightclubs to operate in Amherst, according to municipal planners.The Town Council on Monday approved a series of changes to sections of the bylaws on Dec....

By CHRIS LARABEE

While sitting at the kitchen table with her husband in their Sunderland home and sharing their decades of experience in recording American folklore around Appalachia, Carrie Kline found herself looking out at the birds on their porch.Over the course...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Older immigrants to the region, including those without English skills and a formal education, will benefit from development of a new curriculum for a program that will be housed in the long-running English as a Second Language Center at the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Communities across Massachusetts, including Amherst, will get more financial support from the state for school building projects they are pursuing, although a reimbursement increase recently approved by state officials fell short of appeals...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Customers trying to get into the Wanczyk Nursery parking lot on the morning of Dec. 28 may have found their way blocked by a deep, narrow trench dug for utilities extending across the entrance and a police officer directing vehicles past the...

By ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

In the universe of Asian cuisines that are widely available in America, Korean is an anomaly. Chinese, Japanese and Thai restaurants came of age earlier in the 20th century — and with them, the sticky-sweet, Americanized dishes that became associated...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A sizable portion of the costs associated with buying an electric school bus and a charger for the Amherst public schools are being covered as part of $1.8 million being provided to cities and towns through a state program.The schools are...

Jan. 6 is the Feast of the Epiphany, Three Kings Day and Twelfth Night. Greetings to all our friends and neighbors who celebrate these events.***Barbara Schuman of Amherst sent a postcard from Oxford, England of the Encaenia procession under Hertford...

The rebuilding of the main bridge at Amethyst Brook has been stalled for many months. The main bridge, leading to all paths, was destroyed during an epic storm in 2017, during which trees and 500-pound ice boulders were swept down stream, crushing the...

It’s hard to know what to make of the UN climate conference, COP27, in Egypt last month. Coming into the “conference of the parties,” the delegates found encouragement in the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, who has pledged to...

By GARY BERNHARD

We live in an age of profound political division. The two major parties are so far apart that they spend most of their time excoriating each other instead of working through their differences to develop legislation that benefits all the people, the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

PELHAM — The town’s Community Preservation Committee has rejected a $53,380 funding request to go toward a $4.7 million project at Amherst Regional High School that would rebuild and reorient the track, and put an artificial turf field inside it.The...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — One-time use plastic bags at supermarkets and department stores, foam containers for takeout food and plastic straws at restaurants will be prohibited in Hadley beginning on Jan. 1.Licensing Coordinator Jennifer Sanders James recently sent a...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Amherst’s cross country program has a long and storied history. Its one of the schools in the area that has been able to cultivate sustained success, with many impressive athletes leaving their mark.Even so, it’s rare that athletes like Tamar...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Before he ever laced up a pair of cross country spikes, David Pinero-Jacome was a soccer player.It seemed like an inevitability that he’d keep playing the game – soccer was the ‘sport of the house,’ with David playing striker and his twin brother...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Final schematic design elements for an expanded and renovated Jones Library, including putting the art gallery near the basement entrance and moving the young adult area to the second floor, are being endorsed by the Jones Library Building...

AMHERST — An Amherst man is facing criminal charges after allegedly placing a deer’s heart on a vehicle’s windshield on Fearing Street on Christmas Day, police said.The 21-year-old man is being summoned to court on charges of disturbing the peace and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A small farm in Amherst near the Hadley town line is accepting Christmas trees, with ornaments and tinsel removed, to feed a half-dozen goats.Michelle Chandler, who has six Nigerian dwarf goats at her farm, said that people are welcome to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A retired Massachusetts State Police captain and Amherst resident has been indicted on eight counts related to possession and distribution of child pornography by a Hampshire County Court grand jury. Francis Hart, 62, was arrested at his...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An East Amherst village center building that once housed the long-running Michael’s Billiards could be converted into 12 efficiency apartments for ServiceNet clients.The Planning Board is in the midst of doing a site plan review for an...