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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — School Superintendent Michael Morris, who has been on an indefinite medical leave since May 12 on orders from his doctor, will be returning to the position he has held since the summer of 2016.In a message sent to families and staff Thursday...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Following at-times contentious negotiations and mediation over the past 18 months, a new three-year contract for the Amherst-Pelham Education Association, whose members include teachers, paraeducators and clerical staff, has been...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The Amherst Regional School Committee sought to reassure the school community Tuesday that it intends to act on the results of ongoing investigations, including a Title IX complaint, into the alleged mistreatment of trans and nonbinary...
By MICHAEL PILL
The Ancestral Bridges Foundation’s Juneteenth event in Amherst included Civil War reenactors in the uniform of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Of more than 1,000 men, both free born and former slaves, who came from all over the country to muster into...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Criticisms and disparagement directed toward members of the Amherst-Pelham Education Association during a public meeting in mid-May is prompting an Open Meeting Law complaint from a representative of the Massachusetts Teachers Association.In...
By JILL BUCHANAN
Massachusetts is moving faster than just about anywhere in the country to implement a clean energy economy, with the intention of adding as many as 2.5 million solar panels across the state in the next 20 years. While we need to act promptly, the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A possible agreement on a new three-year contract between the union representing teachers, paraeducators and clerical staff and the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee awaits a vote in the coming days.In the meantime, the Amherst Pelham...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A tentative agreement on a new contract for teachers, paraprofessionals and clerical staff that calls for annual 3% cost-of-living adjustments has been reached, according to representatives from the Regional School Committee’s negotiating...
By SHELBY BROCK
SHUTESBURY — By a vote of 40-37, residents at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting narrowly shot down a bylaw that would ban public access to the Lake Wyola Dam and institute fines for trespassers.Other topics on the 33-article warrant that merited the most...
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SHUTESBURY — Two newcomers will join the School Committee after winning the only contested seats in Saturday’s town election.Jeremy Mailloux of West Pelham Road and Anna Cederberg Heard of Cushman Road, with 237 and 205 votes, earned election over...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amid a nationwide surge of parent-led challenges to books in public libraries and schools, and new laws in red states led by Florida and Texas enabling efforts to remove questioned material, top librarians in the Amherst regional school...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A statement put out by the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee this week is expressing support for all students in the secondary schools to have a safe learning environment free of discrimination, as well as providing an apology for the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Bargaining units for the Amherst-Pelham Education Association decided against ratifying contracts proposed by the School Committee in a vote Monday, according to the union’s executive committee.The union representing teachers,...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
SHUTESBURY — Establishing community choice aggregation that could provide residents with more green-sourced electricity, opposing the use of artifical turf in the new track and field project at Amherst Regional High School and adopting a $6.91 million...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
SHUTESBURY — A resident concerned with potential contamination on the 22-acre site of a new town library is filing a complaint in U.S. District Court in Springfield seeking unspecified damages contending a violation of his civil rights, including free...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In the wake of allegations of transphobic actions by counselors at Amherst Regional Middle School, Assistant Superintendent Doreen Cunningham is on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an ongoing Title IX investigation, according to...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Douglas Slaughter, the finance chief for the Amherst, Amherst-Pelham Regional and Pelham public schools for more than three years, will serve as acting superintendent for the school district, possibly through the end of September.“I’m...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In the wake of allegations of transphobic actions by counselors at Amherst Regional Middle School, Assistant Superintendent Doreen Cunningham is on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an ongoing Title IX investigation, according to...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
SHUTESBURY — A resident concerned with potential contamination on the 22-acre site of a new town library is filing a complaint in U.S. District Court in Springfield seeking unspecified damages contending a violation of his civil rights, including free...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — State agencies that collaborate to promote the safety, well-being and rights of LGBTQ students intend to work with the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts for training that will benefit educators, staff and families in the...
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