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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

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...

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...

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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...

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AMHERST — More than $1 million in spending cuts, including approximately 15 staff layoffs, may be needed to bring the regional schools’ budget to a level that the towns of Amherst, Pelham. Shutesbury and Leverett are able to pay.At a four-towns...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A continued impasse in talks between the Amherst Pelham Education Association and the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee is prompting both sides to do outreach and make appeals to the community.The School Committee, in a letter sent...

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AMHERST — Two bills focused on eliminating contamination from so-called forever chemicals, including legislation related to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in sludge and fertilizer filed by Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, could soon be making...

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AMHERST — Diego Sharon, in his third year as principal at Amherst Regional Middle School, is leaving the position at the end of the school year.Superintendent Michael Morris told the Amherst Regional School Committee on Tuesday that Sharon is looking...

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AMHERST — A 6-year-old project to diversify the teaching staff in the Amherst and regional public schools to better match the racial makeup of the student body continues to yield results.At the Amherst Regional School Committee on Tuesday, members of...

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AMHERST — As the number of fights between students in the bathrooms at Amherst Regional High School appears to be declining, school administrators report that vape detectors continue to show that the number of students vaping in the lavatories is not...

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SHUTESBURY — Continuing to address chemical contaminants found in wells near the fire station, adjusting the town’s zoning bylaws to allow battery storage with solar arrays, and permanently protecting land on Pelham Hill Road will be considered by...

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AMHERST — A $4.74 million project to rebuild and reorient the track at the Amherst Regional High School, installing a synthetic turf playing field in its interior, can move forward, even though community fundraising is short of the amount needed to...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Despite significant planning over the past two years to relocate sixth graders from the town’s elementary schools to the Amherst Regional Middle School this fall, district leaders are broaching the idea of delaying the move, possibly for...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — For close to 200 years, a guideboard on the town green in Shutesbury center has provided travelers a sense of direction and their distance from communities both near and far.Whether it be the 17 miles west to Northampton, the 40 miles...

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SHUTESBURY — As a way to address incidents of graffiti in Shutesbury last summer, Police Chief Kristin Burgess launched a community policing initiative for teenagers to participate in a graffiti art workshop with local artists.But getting participants...

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AMHERST — Citing its duty to protect public health and the environment, the Board of Health is recommending against using artificial turf in a planned overhaul of the track and field at Amherst Regional High School.The board voted 4-0 at its meeting...

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AMHERST — Adjustments to the mathematics curriculum in Amherst’s secondary schools aim to give all students an opportunity to succeed in the subject, and, should they choose, pursue more in-depth studies as high schoolers.During a Regional School...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Students at Amherst Regional middle and high schools will begin their school days later in the mornings when the next school year begins in the fall, when most of them will return for in-person education for the first time since last March.A...