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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — More hands-on experience in manufacturing for Amherst Regional High School students, along with the expansion of engineering and technology courses and modernizing engineering labs and classrooms, are projects being supported through the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A.J. Hastings stationery and newsstand helped to anchor downtown Amherst for 108 years before closing last year. Wilson’s department store was a centerpiece of Greenfield’s retail scene for 137 years until it shuttered in early 2020.While...

By GENE STAMELL

I need a new cellphone. My iPhone 8 is more than just six generations old; it is cracked and crotchety, begging to be replaced. And, unfortunately, I am wedded to purchasing iPhones. I have used Apple products, exclusively, throughout my...

If Dr. Vito Perrone did not, as he claims, realize that he was launching grade-A culture-war ammunition when he went public with only a sliver of the many reasons his job offer for Easthampton school superintendent was withdrawn, then he has been...

I’m reading with interest about the Easthampton superintendent problem. To keep it simple, the gender of any School Committee member is not relevant. Using the term [ladies] in this situation is inappropriate and is a microaggression. I applaud what...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A search for a new Amherst Regional Middle School principal may have to start over after the lone remaining finalist for the position withdrew from consideration, even though she had been invited for a site visit.Gabrielle Jackson, resident...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Only one finalist to serve as the next principal at the Amherst Regional Middle School met virtually with the public at a recent public conversation, but it is uncertain if she will be named the school’s next leader.Gabrielle Jackson,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Representatives for the Amherst Pelham Education Association and the Amherst and Regional school committees are confirming that a contract mediation session lasted about five hours on Friday.But there doesn’t appear to be any similar...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A short time after the school day ends on Friday, members of the Amherst-Pelham Education Association are staging a rally outside the Amherst Regional Middle School calling for a fair contract.With teachers, counselors, paraeducators and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Funding for a new nature trail and park associated with the historic North Leverett Sawmill will be decided at annual Town Meeting this spring, but no money will yet go toward a rehabilitation planning grant for the 200-year-old Moore’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — About $1.16 million in staff reductions, including cutting two classroom teachers at the middle school and five paraeducators at the regional schools, are included in the budget proposal the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two finalists to become the next principal at Amherst Regional Middle School will meet the community at virtual forums Tuesday, while Allison Estes, Wildwood School’s assistant principal, will assume the principalship at that elementary...

As the latest snow storm recedes and driveways and sidewalks are cleared and power is restored our thoughts turn to spring. Flowers, planting leaves, mowing. My thoughts, such as they are, turn to the actions of the current leadership of what used to...

By GENE STAMELL

For those readers who like to skim through guest columns, you are in luck. If you have ever traveled on Southwest Airlines, I invite you to hop down to paragraph four. For all others, I offer the following, brief description of Southwest’s boarding...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A request for use of Community Preservation Act money to help fund the town’s portion of a $4.7 million track and field overhaul at Amherst Regional High School will not come before annual Town Meeting this spring, though an effort to...

UMass wants to privatize more than 100 jobs. Imagine having to reapply to a job you’ve had for 20 years. As a 29-plus year employee at UMass and witness to the anti-union sentiment for all those years, I can confidently state that if it took 20 years...

Dear Waldo,My Auntie Samantha has always hated her eyebrows because she thinks they make her look grouchy. So she plucked them all out and then she drew on fake ones, but the fake ones are I’d say at least three-quarters of an inch higher on her...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Sixth graders at Amherst’s three elementary schools won’t be joining seventh and eighth graders at the Amherst Regional Middle School until fall 2025, at the earliest.In a reversal from a fall 2021 vote in which this year’s fifth graders...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A municipal building in town center that for 87 years served as the town’s library, and for the past two decades has been a repository for historic objects held by the Leverett Historical Society, continues to have an uncertain...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Anticipated soaring costs related to the capital needs of the middle and high schools, including a project to replace the middle school roof that has been put on pause, is prompting local officials to ask if a single campus for regional...