Housing Trust Provides Over $99,000 In Emergency Rental Assistance
Report On The Meeting of the Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust, Julky 8, 2021 The…
Policy
Opinion: How Can I Contribute To Furthering Planetary Repair?
Next Fall marks the 60th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the publication of which…
Many Municipal Zoom Meetings To Resume Next Week. Remote Meeting Provisions Extended To April 2022
All town public bodies, excluding Town Council and their committees and boards, will resume meeting…
UMass Project Will Explore Whether Digital Technologies Increase Public Participation In Amherst’s Municipal Government and Civic Life
Source: UMass News and Media School of Public Policy Professors Jane E. Fountain and Ethan…
CRC Recommends Adoption Of Revised Inclusionary Zoning Bylaw
Report On The Meeting Of the Community Resources Committee, June 7, 2021 The meeting was…
Baker Seeks Extension Of Some COVID Emergency Measures
Source: mass.gov Governor Charlie Baker filed legislation on May 26, to extend certain emergency measures…
Affordable Housing Experts Respond To Town’s Comprehensive Housing Plan Draft
By Art and Maura Keene The Community Resources Committee of the Town Council (CRC) has…
An Introduction To Police Abolition For Amherst Residents
by Defund 413 Amherst Last summer, in the wake of the murders of George Floyd,…
Opinion: We The People Need The “For The People Act”
by Kate Hartford and Elaine Fronhofer Congress is now debating the For the People Act….
Opinion:Local and Green (#23): Every Day Is Earth Day Starting Right Now
Editor’s note: A version of this column appeared previously in the Amherst Bulletin. Things are…