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Amherst Regional High School librarian Leslie Lomasson, left, and Tim Hannon of Broadway Office Interiors put in place a six-piece set of 60-degree curve modular bench seats delivered to the school Wednesday. The furniture was purchased with a surprise gift from the estate of a University of Kansas librarian who never set foot in Massachusetts but had a connection to Leverett. The sculpture at right was created in a previous year by students in Amherst art teacher Jeff Stauder’s class.

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An unexpected gift for Amherst High

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 24, 2017

Kathleen Wang, the principal at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, stands on a play structure with the school in the background.

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Back to School: Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion School

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 23, 2017

Amherst Regional custodians Ron Gamache, left, and Mike Riley stand at the far end of the newly refurbished gymnasium. The facility has new bleachers and a new floor after a water pipe break last year buckled the old floor.

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Back to School: Amherst

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 23, 2017

Lorna and Ray Coppinger are shown in an undated photo.

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Ray Coppinger, Hampshire College professor, dog researcher, dies

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 23, 2017

Monday’s partial eclipse of the sun is seen from Southampton.

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UMass Sunwheel eclipse party draws large crowd

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 22, 2017

New Hingham Elementary School principal Rosemary Larkin holds the phone for sixth-graders Dorothy Duval, center, and Jaycee Beaulieu so they can read the morning announcements over the P.A. system on the first day of classes at the Chesterfield school in 2016.

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Principal resigns 2 weeks before school

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 18, 2017

Local activists Jeff Napolitano and Patricia “Paki” Wieland conduct a nonviolence training at the Northampton Friends Meetinghouse on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, ahead of the "Boston Free Speech" rally on Saturday that will feature several far-right speakers.

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Counterprotesters air tactics ahead of ‘free speech’ rally in Boston

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 18, 2017

A Peter Pan bus picks up a group of passengers at the Northampton terminal, Wednesday.

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Peter Pan settles complaint over ADA violations

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 17, 2017

The Hopkins Class of 1952 gathered on Aug. 15, 2017, to celebrate their 65th reunion at Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst. From left, Earl Fay of Pelham; his wife and 1952 class member, Nancy Sanders Fay; class members Amelia Matuszko of Hadley and June Pipczynski Suleski of Woodstock, Conn.; friend Irene Wheeler of Woodstock, Conn.; and class member Mary Fitzgibbon of Hadley.

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65 years later, Hopkins grads unite

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 16, 2017

A musician performs wearing a T-shirt designed with an image of President Barack Obama at a weekly rumba dance gathering in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. For hundreds of thousands of black Cubans, Obama isn’t just the first U.S. leader to visit their country in nearly nine decades. He’s a black man whose rise to the world’s most powerful job is a source of pride and inspiration for a community that still struggles with informal racism and economic disadvantage despite the revolutionary government’s attempt to end racial prejudice in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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UMass student group headed to Cuba to study public health system

by Dusty Christensen @dustyc123August 15, 2017