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Amherst College giving $2.5M to the town over next three years
02-14-2025 8:54 PM

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.

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NATIONAL CHAMPS! Amherst College men’s soccer takes down Connecticut College in PKs to claim D3 title
12-15-2024 11:18 PM

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...


An inviting addition: Amherst College students creating new mural at Senior Center featuring the diversity of town’s elders
11-24-2024 6:32 PM

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...


Questions simmer over downtown Amherst project: Some question whether new building is a dorm
11-14-2024 2:38 PM

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...


Fauci to speak at Amherst College as part of 10th annual LitFest
11-07-2024 7:35 PM

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...


Local colleges see effect of Supreme Court ruling
09-13-2024 9:16 PM

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...


College’s geothermal project underway
09-13-2024 9:13 PM

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...


Program to mark closing of Ancestral Bridges exhibit at Amherst College
09-09-2024 10:44 AM

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...


Colleges holding breath on FAFSA financial aid fix
08-22-2024 11:31 AM

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...


Amherst College committed to partnership with schools, though talks ongoing
06-13-2024 8:03 PM

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...


Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down Amherst College Alumni Weekend keystone
06-06-2024 7:34 PM

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...


Amherst College faculty join students in urging divestment from military suppliers to Israel
05-20-2024 10:09 AM

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...


Amherst College store opens downtown in former Hastings space
05-06-2024 5:38 PM

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...


Arts Briefs: Rising indie pop star Caroline Rose comes to Florence, UMass Amherst hosts a literary festival, and more
04-01-2024 11:46 AM

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...


Tropical paradise? Not so much: Spring exhibits at Mead Art Museum examine the effect of tourism in the Caribbean, Native American art, and more
04-01-2024 11:43 AM

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...


FAFSA fiasco: Financial aid form meltdown trips up students, colleges
03-03-2024 1:47 PM

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...


Literary musing and gatherings: Amherst College host its ninth annual LitFest this weekend
02-23-2024 9:55 PM

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...


Councilors have doubts over Amherst College ‘gateway’ sign on public green
02-23-2024 9:53 PM

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...


Amherst College women’s basketball coach Gromacki fastest in NCAA history to reach 600 wins
02-08-2024 8:33 PM

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....


Amherst, college to host day for girls in sports on Saturday
02-03-2024 11:00 AM

Staff Report

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...


30% of profs call for Amherst College to divest from firms making money from Gaza campaign
12-15-2023 11:28 AM

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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