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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $103.3 million fiscal year budget that goes most of the way toward meeting the spending requests from the Amherst and Regional school committees, while leaving six full-time and one part-time municipal positions vacant and assorted Jones Library staff positions unfilled, is being delivered to the Town Council.

By Staff Report

AMHERST — Award-winning creative director David Korins, a 1999 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, who has created the worlds, or imagined locations, for more than 25 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton,” will be the keynote speaker at the university’s 155th commencement ceremony, and the 55th held at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, May 16 at 5 p.m.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Bought almost 22 years ago by Amherst College, the Arthur H. Dakin Estate, an unoccupied 14-room Georgian Colonial home with an attached garage at 355 South Pleasant St., could soon be demolished.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild, an Amherst-based quilting group, will have its biennial show on Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center Gymnasium. The show will feature more than 200 quilts by local quilters.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst Recreation Department’s work at expanding accessibility and empowering youth is being recognized through an award presented by the Massachusetts Recreation and Park Association.

Garden report: the forget-me-nots have bloomed. The Solomon seal is many inches high. Radish and snow pea seeds have sprouted.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As heavy machinery moves about a 9-acre site off Montague Road, marking the preliminary work on 15 duplex condominiums to be constructed over the next year and that will offer first-time homeownership opportunities to 30 families, North Amherst residents are already preparing to welcome their new neighbors.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ancestral Bridges’ first physical location at 29A Cottage St. will serve as a new cultural anchor for Amherst and the Connecticut River Valley, and a place where archives come alive through community engagement with art, culture and history, according to founder Anika Lopes.

The UMass Baseball Minutemen continue to up their game when it comes to community outreach. Not only did they send George Washington to the bus with a 16-3 demolition, they again welcomed Amherst Youth Baseball and Hadley-Amherst Youth Softball to their game at Lorden Field on Sunday, giving more than 60 youngsters the opportunity to join the pregame huddle and be on the field for the national anthem as well as allowing young Edward Robinson to man the PA mic for the 4th inning.

Valley Players’ third “Bard in the Bar” reading will be on Sunday, May 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Progression Brewing in Northampton.

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

When he’s not coaching basketball for a community league, our grandson is waiting to hear from the law schools he’s applied to. He is ambitious, with hopes for a top school and plenty of grant money. He thinks about a clerkship and then possibly a job in academia. For more than a year he studied for, took and retook the LSAT exam until he got the grade he expected from himself. His family looked on amazed at his gritty persistence.

By KATHY GREGG

This is not April 1968.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Work on the $46.1 million expansion and renovation of the Jones Library is expected to begin in mid-June after low bidder Fontaine Brothers, Inc., of Springfield signed a contract with the town to be the project’s general contractor.

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — Jack Arena, the longtime Amherst College men’s hockey coach, has announced his retirement, the Mammoths’ athletic department announced on Monday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Federal officials are restoring the previously terminated student immigration statuses for 13 international students at the University of Massachusetts, according to information posted on the university’s federal actions page Monday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A restructuring of the progressive New College of Florida by that state’s Republican leadership in 2023 prompted Hampshire College to offer students there a respite and opportunity to continue their studies in Amherst.

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — When UMass Permaculture organizes its weekly student farmers markets in spring and fall, vendors interested in selling their wares must act fast to scoop up the limited number of spots.

AMHERST — A threat of thunderstorms and rain on Saturday is forcing town officials to postpone the 13th annual Amherst Sustainability Festival to May 10.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Opportunities to interact with robotic dogs developed by a University of Massachusetts Robotics team, see glass being melted for the creation of scientific glassware for campus labs and observe and participate in tree climbing will be among more than 25 activities on Founders Day, the annual event being held on the Amherst campus Tuesday.

I write to correct inaccuracies in the April 23 Gazette article, “In letter to Trump, DOGE, Jones Library opponent seeks cancellation of grant for humanities center in building.” I am the opponent.