AMHERST — A grant that will help Amherst Media continue its efforts to find a new home will come from proceeds from the ninth annual auction by the Rotary Club of Amherst, which will be broadcast to Amherst homes today and tomorrow on Channel 12.
Ed Severance, chairman of the Rotary Club’s auction committee, worked with the club’s board of directors and community grant committee to come up with the idea of supporting Amherst Media in its six-year quest to find a new home.
Amherst Media’s studios on College Street, inside a building owned by Eversource that the utility company may take back, is used as the site of the auction.
“Now we want to help them so they can continue providing their important services to the greater Amherst community,” Severance said.
Net proceeds from this year’s auction will go toward Amherst Media’s building project, and the auction will serve as a kickoff for additional fundraising for the project.
Amherst Media in December 2013 purchased lots on Main Street for a new building, and later successfully had the lots rezoned by Town Meeting so its project could move forward. But Amherst Media opted to abandon that project, and put the lots on the market in February.
The televised auction finale runs today from 6 to 9 p.m. and continues tomorrow from noon to 9 p.m.
Scott Merzbach can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.
