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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two trainings focused on improving staff knowledge of gender identity and sexual orientation, including a full day of professional development with presentations and workshops, are part of the Amherst-Pelham Regional school district’s...

By GENE STAMELL

During the course of our lives, each of us is ascribed many titles and roles. A few of mine, in chronological order, include son, cousin, brother, friend, boyfriend, husband, uncle, father, songwriter, teacher and grandfather. It is fun and humbling...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Leverett voters are being asked to accept a series of road layouts and pursue permanent easements to accommodate a $2.71 million state project to rebuild a bridge over the Roaring Brook at a special Town Meeting on Tuesday.The session,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A search is underway for a new superintendent to oversee the Erving School Union 28, a district that includes four elementary schools serving preschool through sixth-grade students in Shutesbury, Leverett, Erving, Wendell and New...

By SARENA NEYMAN

As a child of two Holocaust survivors and a product of Jewish day schools and Zionist summer camps, I was brought up to love Israel unconditionally.My great-grandmother moved to Palestine from Poland in the 1930s because she recognized the dangerous...

A recent letter writer against gun control uses a female walking in a dark garage as an example of having less gun control [“Gun control bill a ‘fool’s errand,’ Gazette, Oct. 23]. If his intention is to make women fearful enough to agree with less gun...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — As Leverett Elementary School sixth grader Layla Roderick maneuvers along the multivine traverse, grabbing ropes dangling from above while moving her feet on a taut line extended between trees, Vi Salacuse ensures her classmate stays safe...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — During the pandemic, numerous cars daily parked along Rattlesnake Gutter Road up to the gates that have for more than 20 years kept a more than mile long section of the narrow gravel road closed to through traffic, indicating that people...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Live music, horse-drawn wagon rides and a variety of artisan vendors will be set up at the Leverett Co-op Harvest Festival, being held on the grounds of the 180 Rattlesnake Gutter Road store Sunday afternoon.Running from noon to 4 p.m., the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Interim Superintendent Douglas Slaughter promised Tuesday that he will issue a draft report based on the contents of a recently released Title IX investigation, though he cautioned that he must abide by confidentiality of personnel records...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — At least one investigation that began last spring into allegations of transphobic actions by counselors at the Amherst Regional Middle School, and possibly the hiring practices used by the assistant superintendent at the time, appears to be...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A search for a new superintendent to lead the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools is beginning with the creation of a subcommittee, whose members are drawn from both Regional and Union 26 school committees, to oversee the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As a Title IX and associated investigations into alleged mistreatment of trans and nonbinary students at the Amherst Regional Middle School draw to a close, the interim superintendent is informing the Regional School Committee that he...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional public schools will be led on a temporary basis by Douglas Slaughter, the school’s finance chief, who for the second time this year has been named the interim superintendent.With Superintendent...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An interim superintendent to lead the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional school districts could be in place by Thursday evening.Even though Amherst has only two School Committee representatives, following the resignations of three...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — With less than a week before they must hire an interim or temporary superintendent to lead the Amherst, Amherst-Pelham Regional and Pelham schools, regional school committee members said at a Wednesday meeting that they aren’t sure who will...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A temporary or interim superintendent for the Amherst, Amherst-Pelham and Pelham public schools could be named at a joint meeting of the Regional and Union 26 school committees Wednesday.The meeting, in a remote format rather than being held...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Superintendent Michael Morris will leave his position after seven years in the role, a mutual departure announced by the Amherst-Pelham Regional and Union 26 school committees Friday afternoon.The announcement comes after the committees met...

By GENE STAMMEL

“Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.” — Mickey Rooney“I always say, if you’re married 50 years and 10 of them are horrible, you’re doing pretty good.” — Michelle Obama“Keep your eyes...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Upon moving to Shutesbury in 2017, Samantha Spisiak discovered a weekly story time at M.N. Spear Memorial Library, often bringing her toddler to the get-together with other families.“This has been a really big part of our lives,” Spisiak...