What’s in This Issue?

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ANALYTICS ARE BACK!
Numbers in parentheses indicate change from the previous week.
New this week: stats for Total Visits (including every time someone visits the site and engaged visits in which the article is opened).

Note: As of this week, we are eliminating from our counts all visits to our site that did not result in a meaningful engagement with the content. While the total number of visits to our site continues to grow (in the last 30 days, it was almost 95,000 visits), only about a third of those visits resulted in a meaningful engagement, such as opening an article or clicking on a menu. The other visits are likely bot traffic. Henceforth, we’ll only tally meaningful engagement. For this week, we have eliminated the increase and decrease stats from the previous week and month and those calculations will return next week.

Total Number of Unique and Engaged Page Views Last 30 Days: 33,783
Total Number of Unique and Engaged Page Views Last Week: 7,394

Number of Unique Engaged Sessions Last 30 Days: 15,684
Number of Unique Engaged Sessions Last Week: 5828

Number of Active Users Last 30 Days: 22,871
Number of Active Users Last Week: 4865

TOP FIVE MOST-READ ARTICLES LAST WEEK
1. Letter: Hampshire College Has Abdicated Its Responsibility to Its Students, Families, and Community by Tom Dimitre
2. Letter: Interventions at Drunken Student Parties Cost Town More Than Dollars by John Varner
3. Opinion: Amherst College Helped Found Hampshire College. Will It Help with a Just Closure? by Jonathon Podolsky
4 Amherst School Committee Condemns Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Elementary Schools; Revised Policy Approved by Maura Keene
5. UMass Team Will Develop Plan to Modernize Campus Housing by Amherst Indy (c/o UMass News and Media)

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?

ARTS

• The Hive Collective Brings a Multifunctional Arts Hub to 49 Boltwood Walk
• What’s Happening in Amherst? by Art and Maura Keene

BUDGET

• School Supporters Voice Concerns About FY27 Budget by Maura Keene 

CAMPUS

• Plan Ahead for Heavy Traffic, Street Closures, During Move-Out and Commencement Events at UMass
• Trustees of Reservations and Kestrel Land Trust Offer a Shared Vision for Conservation, Community, Agriculture, and Education at Hampshire College
• Letter: UMass Decarbonization Claims Are Misleading by Lori Goldner

CONSERVATION / CLIMATE / ENERGY / ENVIRONMENT / NATURE/

• Affordable Housing Trust Contributes to Solar Panels on Amherst Community Homes Project by Maura Keene
• Amherst Now in Level 2 Drought
• Trustees of Reservations and Kestrel Land Trust Offer a Shared Vision for Conservation, Community, Agriculture, and Education at Hampshire College
• Letter: UMass Decarbonization Claims Are Misleading by Lori Goldner
• Opinion: Amherst Should Not Have to Trade Wetland Protections for Housing by Robin Jaffin

DEMOCRACY

• Shutesbury Adopts the PROTECT Bylaw to Govern Town Interactions with ICE by Miriam DeFant
• The World is on Fire. What the F**K Do We Do?
• Opinion: DPW Building Committee Needs to Change How It Conducts Its Business by Maria Kopicki
• Opinion: Austin Sarat on the Supreme Court’s Take Down of Constitutional Democracy by Michael Greenebaum

EVENTS

• The World is on Fire. What the F**K Do We Do?
• The Hive Collective Brings a Multifunctional Arts Hub to 49 Boltwood Walk
• What’s Happening in Amherst? by Art and Maura Keene

FEATURES

•  Photo of the Week: Fiddlehead Season

HISTORY / HISTORICAL PRESERVATION

•  Historical Commission Imposes Demolition Delay on Phillips Street Porches by Maura Keene

HOUSING

• Are Amherst Developers Flouting the Intent of the Town’s ADU Bylaw? by Maura Keene
• Beacon Withdraws Plans for 140-Unit Housing Complex in North Amherst by Maura Keene
• Affordable Housing Trust Contributes to Solar Panels on Amherst Community Homes Project by Maura Keene
• Opinion: Amherst Should Not Have to Trade Wetland Protections for Housing by Robin Jaffin

ISSUES & ANALYSES

• Are Amherst Developers Flouting the Intent of the Town’s ADU Bylaw? by Maura Keene
• Shutesbury Adopts the PROTECT Bylaw to Govern Town Interactions with ICE by Miriam DeFant

LIBRARY

• Jones Library Prepares for Fundraising Changing of the Guard by Jeff Lee
• Central Fire Station to Temporarily Relocate for Work on Jones Library Utilities by Maura Keene

OPINION

• Letter: UMass Decarbonization Claims Are Misleading by Lori Goldner
• Opinion: Amherst Should Not Have to Trade Wetland Protections for Housing by Robin Jaffin
• Opinion: DPW Building Committee Needs to Change How It Conducts Its Business by Maria Kopicki
• Opinion: Austin Sarat on the Supreme Court’s Take Down of Constitutional Democracy by Michael Greenebaum

PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY

• Shutesbury Adopts the PROTECT Bylaw to Govern Town Interactions with ICE by Miriam DeFant
• Plan Ahead for Heavy Traffic, Street Closures, During Move-Out and Commencement Events at UMass
• Central Fire Station to Temporarily Relocate for Work on Jones Library Utilities by Maura Keene

RECREATION

• Cherry Hill Hopes to Expand Opportunities for Cross-Country Skiing by Maura Keene
• New Appointments to Elementary School Building Committee and Recreation Commission by Art Keene

SCHOOLS

• School Supporters Voice Concerns About FY27 Budget by Maura Keene
• Elementary School Building Project on Budget and on Schedule by Maria Kopicki
• Town of Amherst Accepting Nominations for Youth Hero Awards
• New Appointments to Elementary School Building Committee and Recreation Commission by Art Keene

TOWN GOVERNMENT

• Are Amherst Developers Flouting the Intent of the Town’s ADU Bylaw? by Maura Keene
• Beacon Withdraws Plans for 140-Unit Housing Complex in North Amherst by Maura Keene 
• School Supporters Voice Concerns About FY27 Budget by Maura Keene
• Elementary School Building Project on Budget and on Schedule by Maria Kopicki
• Jones Library Prepares for Fundraising Changing of the Guard by Jeff Lee
• Affordable Housing Trust Contributes to Solar Panels on Amherst Community Homes Project by Maura Keene
• Central Fire Station to Temporarily Relocate for Work on Jones Library Utilities by Maura Keene
• Historical Commission Imposes Demolition Delay on Phillips Street Porches by Maura Keene
• Town of Amherst Accepting Nominations for Youth Hero Awards
• Cherry Hill Hopes to Expand Opportunities for Cross-Country Skiing by Maura Keene
• New Appointments to Elementary School Building Committee and Recreation Commission by Art Keene
• Opinion: Amherst Should Not Have to Trade Wetland Protections for Housing by Robin Jaffin
• Opinion: DPW Building Committee Needs to Change How It Conducts Its Business by Maria Kopicki
• Opinion: Austin Sarat on the Supreme Court’s Take Down of Constitutional Democracy by Michael Greenebaum
  

TRANSPORTATION

• Plan Ahead for Heavy Traffic, Street Closures, During Move-Out and Commencement Events at UMass