UMass Amherst Earns ‘Community-engaged University’ Designation for Third Time
Source: UMass News and Media The University of Massachusetts Amherst has earned the 2026 Carnegie Community Engagement...
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Town Council Defeats Proposals to Promote Housing for Non-Student Residents
Report on the Meeting of the Amherst Town Council, December 8, 2025 This was a...
At-large Town Council Candidates Stress Need for More Housing at League of Women Voters Candidate Forum
By Maura Keene This League of Women Voters Amherst held a candidate forum on October...
ARHS Student Wins MLB Grant to Support Local Youth Baseball
Source: Amherst Regional Public Schools When Amherst Regional Middle School student Oscar Reich began his...
Town of Amherst Launches New Civic Academy Program
Applications must be submitted by Sunday, September 21. All About Amherst: Civic Academy, a new...
Divided Council Unable to Choose Representative for DPW Building Committee
Report on the Meeting of the Amherst Town Council, July 21, 2025 by. Audrey Falkner...
Finance Director Urges Public to Attend Meeting on School Aid at UMass on March 24
Day of Civic Awareness Planned for High School Students With many schools and municipalities facing...
Rally for School Funding Draws Large Crowd
More than one hundred people rallied in downtown Amherst on March 2 to protest impending...
Panel: Striving for Restorative Justice and Repair in Academe
Source: UMass Department of History The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will present a lecture...
Community Breakfast Celebrates UMass/Town Collaboration
The 57th annual Community Breakfast, held at the UMass Student Union Ballroom on August 27,...
Opinion: Happy Birthday to the Indy
Amherst has numerous food deserts, and the entire town is probably an affordable-housing desert, that...
Indy Editors to Appear on WHMP’s Panorama
Amherst Indy editors Art Keene and Kitty Axelson-Berry were interviewed by WHMP’s Sarah Robertson and ...