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Taylor Davis Landscaping & Construction faces $42K in fines from MassDEP
01-30-2025 1:24 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has fined a South Amherst landscaping and construction company for various hazardous waste and wetlands violations at its facility.


Arts Briefs: Folk rock at Iron Horse, ‘Xanadu’ auditions at UMass, and more
01-29-2025 2:36 PM

Local folk rock band High Tea (Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot) and Wallace Field will co-headline a show at the Iron Horse on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.


Amherst ready should ICE come knocking: Bockelman says town prepared to handle legitimate requests
01-29-2025 12:15 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Even though no civil immigration detainer requests were made to Amherst police and no individuals were transferred to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2024, Amherst’s town manager told the Town Council this week that local officials are prepared for renewed federal efforts to locate undocumented immigrants in town.


Nonprofit developers say cost, siting chief barriers to affordable housing in Valley
01-28-2025 4:36 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Significant cost increases to build affordable housing across the region pose a major challenge, but streamlining zoning rules, soliciting state and federal support, and pursuing local assistance can lead to successful developments, according to leaders with regional nonprofit housing developers.


Scale of Jones Library addition one of last sticking points in historical review
01-28-2025 3:16 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Losing two interior staircases and some original woodwork from the original 1928 Jones Library building, along with the proposed addition’s size, scale and “massing,” remain adverse effects to be resolved before the $46.1 million expansion and renovation project moves forward.


Amherst-Pelham teachers union cites support for superintendent in wake of allegations
01-27-2025 4:11 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A week after the release of an anonymous letter highly critical of Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman’s management of the central office, the executive board for the union representing teachers, paraprofessionals and clerical staff released a statement Friday supporting Herman and applauding her efforts to bring transparency and financial stability to the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools.


Amherst Board of Health seeks suite of stricter tobacco regs
01-27-2025 3:33 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Restricting the sale of oral nicotine pouches to adults-only tobacco stores, increasing the minimum price of cigars to be consistent with state regulations, and not allowing a tobacco retailer to move within 1,000 feet of an existing business selling tobacco are among changes being considered for the town’s rules related to sale of tobacco and vape products.


Pioneering educator ‘Chuck’ Longsworth, a founder of Hampshire College, recalled for vision, sense of mission
01-26-2025 11:04 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Charles R. “Chuck” Longsworth, a Hampshire College founder and the institution’s first employee and second president, who died Jan. 8 at 95 in Concord, is being remembered for his pioneering work in higher education.


8 teachers, 4 para posts likely lost in next Amherst elementary school budget
01-26-2025 10:56 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Eight classroom teachers and four paraprofessionals at Amherst’s three elementary schools could lose their jobs under a preliminary plan that would eliminate $1.12 million in spending from a $29.26 million level services fiscal year 2026 budget.


UMass planning major public-private campus housing overhaul
01-24-2025 3:53 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes is seeking a new public-private partnership that could bring to the University of Massachusetts campus affordable, mixed-use housing for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as possible options for non-students — an initiative that could reduce the pressure on the area’s housing stock.


Input sought on Jones Library project’s impact on historical features
01-24-2025 11:19 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A second meeting to gather input for a plan to address adverse effects on historical aspects of the Jones Library building over the course of the $46.1 million expansion and renovation project is scheduled for Monday afternoon.


Jeffrey Fishman: Violence toward police normalized
01-24-2025 10:55 AM

It will be recorded in the archives of history that on Jan. 21, 2025, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, were whitewashed from the legal record. Concurrently, violence against police officers and destruction to government property was condoned and pardoned.


Around Amherst: Griesemer voted council president for 1 more year
01-24-2025 9:51 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Lynn Griesemer, the only president the Town Council has had since it was first organized in 2018, will remain in the position for another year, pledging to continue to be present for the public and municipal staff and to improve communication with the community.


Teresa Amabile: Healey’s shameful budget proposals
01-23-2025 11:35 PM

There is much to applaud in the budget proposal that Gov. Maura Healey released on Wednesday, such as funding to implement the state’s Student Opportunity Act, but I am alarmed that two provisions in this budget could bring real harm to some of the most vulnerable residents of our commonwealth.


Two former Amherst College employees allege in lawsuit that receiving monthly pay violates state’s wage laws
01-23-2025 4:40 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two former employees at Amherst College have filed a class action lawsuit in Hampshire Superior Court contending a violation of the Massachusetts Wage Act occurred when, without their permission, they received their pay at the end of each month, rather than in weekly or every other week allotments.


Celebrating King’s legacy at UMass: National journalist Yamiche Alcindor urges US to live up to its promises
01-22-2025 5:15 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

AMHERST — Yamiche Alcindor’s “ah-ha” moment came when she was in high school and heard the story of Emmett Till, a Black teen from Chicago who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.


Dead geese at UMass had bird flu
01-22-2025 3:17 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The first two cases of bird flu on the University of Massachusetts campus were discovered over the weekend when two deceased Canadian geese tested positive for disease, the university announced.


Arts Briefs: ‘Love Letters’ in Hatfield, paintings done by feet in Northampton, and more
01-22-2025 2:25 PM

The local theater company Valley Players will present a production of the play “Love Letters” on Feb. 7, 8, 14 and 15, each at 7:30 p.m., at Black Birch Vineyard in Hatfield.


Turnaround leader Wingenbach leaving helm of Hampshire College
01-21-2025 5:52 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Hampshire College President Ed Wingenbach is stepping down from leadership at the end of June to become president of the American College of Greece, completing six years at the helm of the Amherst campus during a transitional phase for the college amid financial uncertainty.


Amherst-Pelham administrators raise alarm over school superintendent’s behavior; executive session Wednesday
01-21-2025 5:45 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A dozen administrators in the Amherst and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools are accusing Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman of threats of physical harm, creating a hostile work environment, and allowing sexual and workplace harassment since she took the helm of the district last July.

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