Letter: Yet Another Fire Involving Proposed Batteries for Hickory Ridge Solar and Shutesbury Road Solar
It is important that Amherst residents know that there has been yet another battery fire...
Letter: Local Climate Leaders Endorse Candidates Who Support Climate Action
As Amherst residents and climate action, climate justice, and environmental organizers, we support Ellisha Walker...
Letter: Amherst Needs Municipal Broadband Feasibility Study
A recent effort to include a non-binding ballot question onto this fall’s municipal election ballot...
Letter: What Happened At School Committee’s Executive Session?
The following letter was sent to the Regional School Committee on October 14, 2023. In...
Opinion: Most Plastic Recycling Is Environmental Fraud
Any new Amherst waste hauler contract should include a full disclosure statement from the contracted...
Opinion: What Climate Doomers Get Wrong
Before I mention anything else, I want to acknowledge the horrors of the war in...
A Better World Is Possible: Building Arab/Jewish Solidarity at Hand in Hand Schools
By Art and Maura Keene Most disheartening in the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel...
Town Manager Report for October 16, 2023
Source: amherstma.gov Editor’s note: Town Manager Paul Bockelman submits a comprehensive report to the Town...
Photo of the Week: Snapping Turtle by Darya Zelentsova
Our feature, Photo of the Week, presents each week, a new picture by a local photographer....
What’s In This Issue?
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School Committee Chairs Delay Access to Report on LGBTQ Harassment
Enter Executive Session Regarding “Confidential Personnel Matter” The Union 26 Committee and the Regional School...
Social Justice Committee Frustrated with Absence of Answers to Questions About Turmoil at CRESS.
Report on the Meeting of the Community Safety and Social Justice Committee (CSSJC), October 11,...