Amherst planners consider modifying University Drive rezoning to protect shopping plaza
$5.7M Amherst surplus rankles strapped school officials
River Valley Co-op members overwhelmingly say no to boycott of Israeli products
What can you expect from a Cuddle Party? Conversations about consent happen before anything else
Guest columnist Henry Lappen: How are trees lining the streets of Amherst?
Columnist Johanna Neumann: Rush for energy-hungry data centers is folly
New Jones Library bid comes in under target
AMHERST — A general contracting bid below the $36 million estimate for expanding and renovating the Jones Library was received by the town by Thursday’s deadline.At $35.77 million, the bid from Fontaine Brothers Inc. of Springfield, one of two...
Highlands operetta: Valley Light Opera staging Gilbert and Sullivan classic ‘Mikado,’ Scottish-style
Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta “The Mikado” has landed at the Academy of Music — this time, with a Scottish twist.Amherst-based Valley Light Opera opened “The McAdo,” an adaptation of “The Mikado,” last weekend, and offers performances this...
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Richard McCarthy: Tortured artists’ deaths no blaze of glory
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Field hockey: Frontier knocks off Greenfield to win third straight Western Mass. championship
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Sports
Amherst girls dominant in capturing 3rd consecutive Western Mass. Class A Cross Country Championship (PHOTOS)
WESTFIELD — The Amherst Regional girls cross country team’s day almost ended before it even began on Sunday afternoon.The Hurricanes were awaiting a bus to pick them up at the school and take them to Stanley Park in Westfield for the Western Mass....
UMass basketball alum trains one of Calipari’s top recruits
Amherst native Vanessa Chakour brings women’s boxing classes to Franklin County's YMCA
MLB Draft: Tampa Bay first-round pick Theo Gillen traces his baseball roots back to Amherst
Gazette Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year: Moriah Luetjen, AmherstOpinion
Guest columnist Joseph Levine: Will brutal campaign to remake Mideast work this time?
After a year of a genocidal campaign in Gaza in response to the Al Aqsa Flood attacks of Oct. 7 and the recent escalation in Lebanon and beyond, it’s a good time to assess where we’re at, how we got here, and where we’re going.Immediately before the...
Darcy Dumont: What sustainable downtown Amherst design can be
Guest columnist James Lescault: Amherst Media — A violation of community trust
Guest columnist Barry Hirsch: No peace, no future with Hamas still a factor
Darcy Dumont: Valley Green Energy flowing soon to three towns
Arts & Life
Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories
“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, right around here, a woman, thought...
Recess, college style: UMass Outing Club gives hundreds of students chance to get outside and play
Valley Bounty: Beans are her thing: Five years in, Heather McCann of Rustic Outlook Farm has launched her own bean club
A cartoonists’ cartoonist: Florence’s Hilary Price won the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society
An old garden’s revival: Path at former Belchertown State School a labor of love for the volunteers who maintain it