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AMHERST — With more people likely in Amherst due to Homecoming events at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Police were kept busy with parties, fights and underage drinking over the weekend.As part of 247 calls for service from Friday through...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In the waning days of Major League Baseball’s 1977 regular season, Sports Illustrated writer Melissa Ludtke, who grew up in Amherst, received a clubhouse pass from the New York Yankees, giving her permission to be with the players before and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
A longtime pledge by State Auditor Diana DiZoglio to audit the state Legislature, contending this will provide more transparency and accountability to legislative proceedings, is coming before voters at the November election, after she was unable to...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst is in the midst of efforts to maintain and improve the quality of public drinking water while enhancing the supply, both through a dredging project for sedimentation basins at the Atkins Reservoir and reconstruction of a water...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A substantial increase in the cost of disposing sludge from the town’s wastewater treatment plant is prompting Hadley officials to consider hiking sewer user fees, a 10% rate increase that would come only about 18 months after the board...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — As a town committee examines the possibility of creating a new zoning district that would bring a mix of housing options and possible adaptive reuse of commercial properties, its members are pushing back on recent responses to townwide...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Construction of Amherst’s new $97.5 million elementary school, to open for classes in fall 2026, will begin next month after officials received a low bid from a Waltham-based general contractor that is more than $4.8 million below the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Enacting a townwide 25 mph speed limit on all roads that don’t have speed limit signs will be considered by voters at a special Town Meeting in November.The Select Board Wednesday voted unanimously to support the request for the townwide...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A proposed dentist office to be built at 101 East St., at the corner of Route 9 and East Street, may need to scale back the parking lot before the development wins approval from the Planning Board.While members of the Planning Board at...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Crocker Farm School reopened for regular school days this week, along with its after-school program, as work crews completed repairs to the building’s fire safety system.With a final inspection completed by the Amherst Fire Department, both...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A lack of classroom space at Fort River School for next fall’s sixth-grade students could prompt a discussion of grade configurations in the building and decisions around enrollment and expansion of Caminantes, the school’s dual-language...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A midfielder for the University of Massachusetts men’s soccer team who starred on the pitch for Pope Francis Preparatory School in Springfield, Bryant Keeney understands that what athletes put into their bodies is an important part of the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Until taking the oath of U.S. citizenship Tuesday morning, Tashi Dhondup of Amherst had been without a country since 1959, when he left Tibet during the Tibetan uprising and took refuge in Nepal.Eleven years after coming to the United...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Rules and regulations for use of conservation land in Amherst are in the midst of being updated by the Conservation Commission, with the possibility that some of the revisions will affect those who bring their dogs onto the town properties...
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 — An incident in which several people were located with blood on themselves, following a possible fistfight, and a brief vehicle pursuit that led to the arrest of a man wanted in Georgia, were among 234 calls for service handled by Amherst...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Live music, various street performers like 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 town, from...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In a college town where loud and often large gatherings can be a regular occurrence, levying fines is an enforcement mechanism for restoring tranquility to a neighborhood, with arrests also possible for those violating Amherst’s noise and...
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
AMHERST — Incentives for households to cut the amount of garbage they throw out, helping to reduce Amherst’s dependence on landfills and incinerators and lowering greenhouse gas emissions, is the aim of a rewritten trash hauler bylaw being developed...
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