Public Comment: Redistricting For Equality An Impossible Task Under The Current Charter
The following public comment was made at the Town Council meeting of October 18, 2021...
Public Comment: New Resident Sees Flawed Process In Promoting Parking Garage
The following written public comment was submitted to the town’s public comment portal on October...
Letter: My Opposition To The Ross/Ryan Parking Structure And My Disappointment In The Planning Board
Editor’s note: We received two pieces of correspondence from Jay Silverstein this week; a letter...
Letter: Jones Trustees’ Anti-racism Resolution Is Self-Serving, Tone Deaf
It is impossible for me to see this on-the-surface admirable statement so horrendously timed —...
Letter: Amherst Forward’s Unwelcome Endorsement Is An Act Of White Privilege
I was angered and perplexed when I read the October 4, 2021 article in the...
Letter: Failure To Protect Historic Documents Underscores Failings of Jones Library Leadership
In her letter about the Jones Library in the Amherst Bulletin, my friend Susan Tracy,...
Letter: Libraries And Schools
A library is more than its building or its stacks of books and reading materials....
Letter: There Are Better Ways To Improve Our Libraries Than The Proposed Jones Expansion
On November 2 we can start over smart by rejecting the borrowing for the Jones...
Letter: I Plan To Vote No On The Library Project
I’m an educator who loves books, and really loves to read at home, at work...
Letter: I Support Candidates Who Are Reasonable, Fair, Curious, Strategic, And Open
I support the following candidates: Cathy Schoen (District 1) Dorothy Pam (District 3) Jennifer Taub...
Letter: Conservation Commission Will Discuss Forty-Four Acre Solar Installation That Would Replace Forested Land In Amherst
Readers of the Amherst Indy may want to know that detailed plans for a forty-four...
Opinion: Community Safety Working Group – Programs For Us Need To Be By Us
by The Community Safety Working Group Following the murder of George Floyd, youth-led Black Lives...