Wildwood Educator Kate Westafer Named 2025 Recipient of Roger L. Wallace Excellence in Teaching Award
Source: Amherst Regional Public Schools Kate Westafer, a special education teacher at Wildwood Elementary School,...
Swimming at Puffer’s Pond North Beach Is Not Recommended
The Town of Amherst announced on July 30, that swimming is not recommended at the...
Town of Amherst Launches New Civic Academy Program
Applications must be submitted by Sunday, September 21. All About Amherst: Civic Academy, a new...
New UMass Study Finds that Proposed Cuts to Federal Research & Development Funding in Massachusetts Puts More than $16 Billion in Economic Activity at Risk
Source: UMass Donahue Institute If proposed changes to federal funding and support for research and...
Western Mass Resistance Calendar and Supplemental Reading List
Welcome to the Western Mass Resistance Calendar for the week of 8/1, a listing of...
League of Women Voters Book Sale Concludes August 4
Source: League of Women Voters Amherst The Annual League of Women Voters Books sale will...
Public Reading of the Re-written Declaration of Independence
Source: Feminist Generation Amherst Area youth activists will host a reading of a re-written Declaration...
Opening Reception for “A Something Overtakes the Mind” at the Emily Dickinson Museum
Did you ever read one of her Poems backward, because the plunge from the front...
What’s Happening in Amherst?
by Art and Maura Keene You can help us make our events calendar more comprehensive...
Cartoon: Jonesing for All We Need
by Ira Bryck and Art Keene This cartoon was produced with Sora AI
Letter: Regarding a New Firehouse and DPW Building, Two Can Live Cheaper than One
The following letter was sent to Town Councilors Mandi Jo Hanneke, George Ryan, Pam Rooney...
Opinion: Gaza: What Have We Become?
by Rabbi Devorah Jacobson and Jeffery Gold (.with co-signers: Tom Weiner, Sara Weinberger, Leslie Schwartz...