Proposals for creating a Resident Oversight Board, an entity that would review both the Amherst Police and Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service departments, are before the Town Council.

Albert Eugene "Curly" Thouin, 92, passed away November 2, 2025, at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. Born October 21, 1933, in Nort ...

Firefighters from throughout the area were battling a raging fire on Olympia Drive Friday night into Saturday morning, a blaze that displaced as many as 230 people and spread to multiple buildings.

Lynn E. Klock Amherst, MA - Lynn E. Klock, age 75, of Amherst, MA, died unexpectedly in August of heart failure. He was Professor of Saxophone at the University of Massachusetts from 1980 until his ...

The Frontier Regional football team ran into a different brand of football in its 46-6 loss to KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate ...

Richard Michelson has had a busy year. The author, poet, radio host, librettist, former poet laureate of Northampton, and owner of a Northampton art gallery recently released two children’s books, ...

At a heated special Town Meeting this week, voters rejected a warrant article seeking to take by eminent domain the easement on a small portion of Shutesbury Road land to ensure that the easiest ...

Gabriella Smith moved from Pennsylvania to western Massachusetts a few years ago because her family heard about the ...

In recent times of conflict, it’s common to picture young men in their late teens going off to war. But Samuel Eddy, a Chesterfield blacksmith, was 40 years old when left to fight for the Union in the ...

Readers of last month’s column will recognize this month’s as “Small-town Races II.” We recently had Greenfield’s Don Maynard race, the Summit Run in Hadley and Conway’s Covered Bridge 10K; now here ...

Fifty-three years ago this month I earned a title that to this day is one of my most cherished accomplishments, that of a United States Marine. The 10th of this month we celebrate the 250th birthday ...

Since the advent of ChatGPT and similar AI models, college professors have scrambled to try to counteract students from coasting on assignments when chatbots can seemingly do all the work for them.