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Amherst police have on-site gym to stay in shape physically, and peer support...
The aim of the Critical Incidents Stress Management and Peer Support is to help police avoid becoming a statistic. The Republican / Diane LedermanAmherst police officer David A. Rhoades, left, and...
View ArticlePM News Links: Amherst principal says number of high schoolers hurting...
The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports the school will place greater emphasis this year on social and psychological health concerns. • How a UMass theater major became one of the country’s hottest drag...
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'Harvest of Grief' documentary depicting plight of 4 farming communities in...
Producer Rasil Basu will attend; her daughter, Amherst College professor Amrita Basu, is organizing the screening. The 66-minute documentary "Harvest of Grief" was shot in four villages in Sangrur, a...
View ArticleState attorney general's opinion awaited on long distance Amherst library...
Amherst Library Trustee Carol J. Gray is in Egypt for 10 months as a rotary scholar. AMHERST - Library Trustee Carol J. Gray will have to wait to learn whether she can continue serving from...
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Amherst planners consider zoning changes to encourage improved student housing
The bylaw change is intended to govern private for-profit student group housing. Photo by Greg Saulmon / The Republican. | Amherst Town Hall, May 2009. AMHERST- Just as university and college students...
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Amherst shows surplus for fiscal year 2010
Some of surplus will go to free cash, once the numbers are certified by Massachusetts. The Republican photo AMHERST - When all the bills were paid and revenue counted for fiscal 2010, the town was...
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Amherst Select Board accepts retirement of Town Manager Larry Shaffer
Shaffer, who turns 62 in early September, has served as Town Manager since July 1, 2006 File photoLaurence R. Shaffer AMHERST - Town Manager Laurence R. Shaffer will retire at the end of September,...
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Amherst resident Larry Kelley will try again to persuade town to allow flying...
Kelley has made the request every summer since the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. The Republican file photoLarry J. Kelley, of Amherst, outside of...
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UMass to convey land to Amherst for development
The North Pleasant Street site, now called Gateway Redevelopment Project, was once home to 4 fraternities and a sorority. The Republican / Diane LedermanUniversity of Massachusetts Chancellor Robert...
View Article$85 million in National Science Foundation awards issued to 178 universities,...
The funding was secured through President Obama’s federal stimulus program. A total of $85,601,927 in National Science Foundation awards have been announced for 178 Massachusetts universities and...
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Amherst Select Board rejects resident Larry Kelley request to fly...
The board voted to fly the flags every 5 years instead of every 3 years. The Republican file photoLarry J. Kelley, of Amherst, outside of Amherst Town Hall with one of the American flags that annually...
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Amherst considers John Musante to replace Laurence Shaffer as town manager
Musante is the Amherst assistant town manager and finance director. AMHERST - The town’s new town manager might be located in a first floor office just two flights away from the current town manager....
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UMass-Amherst struggles to draw in-state students, falls behind UConn and New...
Undergraduates from Massachusetts at the University of Connecticut has risen 70 percent in the past decade while the number of Connecticut students enrolled at UMass Amherst dropped by 5.5 percent....
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UMass-Amherst professor Christopher Condit helping develop manned NASA Mars...
Condit, a field geologist, is in north Arizona's San Francisco volcanic field working as a geologic observer. Associated Press / University of Massachusetts, Caroline MorissetUniversity of...
View ArticleWater main work scheduled in Amherst
Residents are advised to run water after the work is completed. AMHERST - Town crews are performing water main work Tuesday on Spring Street between Dickinson Street and Boltwood Avenue. Water is...
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Iron Sushi chefs: UMass-Amherst makes world's longest California roll
The 422-foot-long roll shattered the record held by the University of California, Berkeley. The Republican / Don TreegerCelebrity chef Jet Tila (far right) starts rolling the world record California...
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Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School names Richard Alcorn...
Alcorn and his wife, Kathleen Wang, opened the school in 2007. The Republican file photoRichard E. Alcorn HADLEY - The co-founder of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School has been hired...
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Colleen Keenan of Holyoke organizing road race to benefit Shriners Hospital...
A year after Shriners International considered closing five hospitals, the organization is continuing to struggle. Photo by Don Treeger / The RepublicanColleen A. Keenan, left, seen here with Amherst...
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Amherst police arrest Craig McNair and Alberto Ramos of Springfield on drug...
The car Ramos was driving had been stopped by police for speeding. AMHERST - Police arrested two Springfield men on drug charges early Wednesday morning after stopping the car for speeding on College...
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Massachusetts higher ed commissioner Richard Freeland critical of cuts to...
Freeland said Massachusetts has made some of the deepest cuts to higher education in the nation. File photoUMass campus at night. BOSTON (AP) — The state's higher education commissioner says continued...
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