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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A $2.5 million donation from Amherst College will support the Amherst and regional schools, the town’s emergency services, and infrastructure work downtown over the next three years, as well as one of two municipal building projects the town is undertaking.
By GARRETT COTE
Hollywood script writers couldn’t have come up with a more perfect story for the Amherst College men’s soccer team on Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas.After 110 minutes of soccer wasn’t enough to decide a winner (0-0) between the Mammoths and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Represented on a mural taking up an entire wall in the Senior Center lounge at the Bangs Community Center, an Amherst senior citizen is shown portraying singer Elvis Presley, with musical notes flowing from his guitar displayed against a rainbow, and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A downtown mixed-use building under construction, to house Amherst College students starting next fall under an agreement between the college and the developer, is continuing to raise questions from residents and members of the Planning...
AMHERST — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic, and actor and alumnus Jeffrey Wright, nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award earlier...
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 — 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...
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 EMILEE KLEIN
With the announcement last week that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2025-2026 year will open to all students on Dec. 1 — two months later than the usual rollout date — Hampshire College has begun to prepare for another financial...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Despite a number of appeals and meetings seeking financial support from Amherst College for the Amherst and regional public schools, both through official and unofficial channels, no arrangement has yet been reached.Even so, both college and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Alumni Weekend at Amherst College, typically a celebratory occasion for members of classes marking milestone anniversaries, featured two pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including one that shut down the annual Conversation with the President...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The faculty of Amherst College is joining the college’s Student Senate in asking trustees to divest from corporations supplying military equipment to Israel in its ongoing war in Gaza.The divestment appeal, made last week, came with support...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
A new retail store carrying assorted Amherst College merchandise, as well as school supplies, tech accessories and snacks, is open at 45 South Pleasant St., as demolition of a building immediately to the south, and removal of an attached ell to the...
Verse and melody, in an unusual combinationAMHERST — Poets and composers who teach at Amherst College are joining forces March 30 for a special program, “Words and Music: An Arts Faculty Showcase,” that will feature four musical premieres alongside...
By STEVE PFARRER
What could be better in winter than a trip to the Caribbean? Warm but not overly hot temperatures, plenty of sun, crystalline waters — sounds like paradise.But as a current exhibit at the Mead Art Museum in Amherst shows, paradise for some can mean...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — A continued challenge for some prospective students and their families in accessing federal financial aid applications, and a corresponding delay in relaying the information from these forms to colleges and universities, is raising...
By STEVE PFARRER
Amherst College has sent many a successful writer into the world, or brought them in to teach: David Foster Wallace, Robert Frost, Richard Wilbur, Robert Stone, Lauren Groff, Chris Bohjalian, Charles Mann and many others.That legacy will be celebrated...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A large gateway sign to greet visitors to the Amherst College campus coming from points west and north, better announcing the college’s presence at the southern edge of downtown, is again being proposed for installation by college officials...
By GARRETT COTE
Dynasty isn’t a term that gets thrown around loosely – that word holds a ton of weight in the sports world. It takes a lot of success over an extended period of time to call something a dynasty.But that’s exactly what South Deerfield native G.P....
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AMHERST — Girls will have the opportunity to try a variety of sports and games as Amherst College’s female athletes help lead a regional celebration for the Women’s Sports Foundation’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Saturday.Running from 10...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A call for Amherst College to divest from companies that could be making money off the Israel-Hamas war is being issued by 60 faculty members, who contend in a letter that Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack violates...
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