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By EMILEE KLEIN
Spoke is a University of Massachusetts Amherst student treasure. One of the three college bars in town, Spoke offers the trifecta of a good college bar: space to dance, cheap drinks and a classic bar feel complete with a wall of fake IDs. The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Even with limited calls for the Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service, and the department losing half its staff in recent months, the director is confident that a base is being built for success.“I believe that while things are...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Live music, various street performers including acrobats and jugglers, and a variety of food will bring a section of North Pleasant Street to life for four hours on Thursday.From 5 to 9 p.m., the section of the main thoroughfare through...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Jones Library Director Sharon Sharry’s dedication to the Jones Library, its staff and patrons, and her continued planning for a renovated and expanded main branch, is being recognized with an exemplary annual performance review from the...
By JON MCCABE
Journalist Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii recently about the negative impact of Not-in-My-Back-Yardism regarding support for local public goods/services such as housing, schools, and yes, libraries. Schatz focused on how NIMBYism...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Music from centuries-old folk songs and contemporary and classical tunes emanates through the hallway at the Bangs Community Center on a recent morning, as some of the autoharp players hold the instrument upright against their shoulders and below...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A naturalization oath ceremony in which 50 candidates from 29 countries will become American citizens takes place at the hall at Munson Memorial Library on Tuesday morning,Beginning at 11 a.m. at the 1046 South East St. site, Judge Katherine...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Maintaining and improving existing public housing properties is an ongoing challenge for local housing authorities with limited resources, an issue that housing advocates and professionals are hopeful the state’s $5.16 billion housing...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The Amherst Historical Commission is accepting cost-saving measures in the plans for the expanded and renovated Jones Library, including removal of a skylight from the roof, use of synthetic slate shingles and streamlined landscaping.The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Enslaved from 1770 to 1776 at the Forty Acres homestead in Hadley, now known as The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum, Caesar Phelps wrote a letter from Fort Ticonderoga, where he was serving in the Continental Army, to his owner, Charles Phelps,...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst police are paying tribute to K-9 Dash, the department’s first canine member following his recent death from heart disease, after almost 10 years of service that ranged from helping to identify criminal suspects to locating missing...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A geothermal energy project to heat and cool all buildings on the Amherst College campus is underway, with some of the coming work of boring holes down 850 feet to be visible for passers-by on College Street throughout 2025.Along with an...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — How the future streetscape and public and private properties will look in downtown Amherst, where so-called infill mixed-use projects have been built in recent years and a new five-story building is under construction, is the focus of new...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Giving the Demonstration Response and Safety Team at the University of Massachusetts an expanded role in promoting safety, education and deescalation at protests, clarifying the campus land-use policy by defining structures according to...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A five-member committee that will regularly consult with the Black community in Amherst, making recommendations for how reparations money is disbursed, could soon be established by the Town Council.The charge for the Amherst Black...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — All students living in the 22-story Coolidge Hall in the Southwest Area of the University of Massachusetts campus were safely evacuated for three hours Sunday night into early Monday morning after an unattended candle caused a small fire in...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Hike for Hunger, a fundraiser being held for the fifth time, is the the Amherst Survival Center’s major event for Hunger Action Month, underway throughout September.Beginning this week, people are encouraged to register their hikes, paying a...
AMHERST — A closing celebration for the Ancestral Bridges exhibit at Amherst College’s Frost Library, on view on the mezzanine level since the fall of 2023, took place Tuesday afternoon.Attendees discussed the future of the Ancestral Bridges...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Over the objections of some Town Council members with concerns about the process leading to his appointment, a new member is joining Amherst’s Planning Board.A divided Town Council confirmed Lawrence Kluttz of Dana Street on Aug. 19 to serve...
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