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By ELAINE FRONHOFER

By CAROLYN BROWN

Paulina Stark, a professor emerita of voice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1985 to 2005, died earlier this month at the age of 88.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Famous for its giant popovers, Judie’s was a mainstay of Amherst’s dining scene, a popular place for people to go to on graduation, alumni and homecoming weekends and to celebrate special events for more than 40 years.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A zoning change aimed at slowing the development of new apartments and townhomes, especially in neighborhoods close to the University of Massachusetts and where students are most likely to be tenants, is being sought by the Planning Board.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Town leaders continue to reaffirm its status as a sanctuary community, even as the Trump administration is threatening to cut off funding to any city or town not complying with the federal government’s immigration efforts.

By RUSS VERNON-JONES

There is a coup underway in our country. We are in danger of losing our democracy.

By MONICA MORAN

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

Eggs are pricey these days. And eggs aren’t the only thing costing more. Those of us who heat our homes with gas are paying more than twice as much for the same amount of energy as we paid five years ago.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Over the last nine months of 2024, Amherst’s unarmed community responders handled 696 calls for service, either from people making direct appeals for help by walking into or calling the office, or having calls relayed from the town’s emergency dispatch center.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) is asking that all millwork in the original part of the Jones Library be preserved in some form, and for all windows in the expanded and renovated library building to take on an historic appearance, as final stipulations in a memorandum of agreement under the Section 106 Historic Preservation Review.

By Staff Report

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Harsh weather conditions of significant snow combined with freezing rain, a lack of adequate salt supply and a shortage of available workers has left residents up and down the Pioneer Valley in slippery situations.

By RICHARD S. BOGARTZ

I’ve observed groups online discussing how to resist what is happening to our government. Mostly people are expressing their frustration at knowing something should be done but not knowing what, or how, and feeling so alone in their frustration.

Actions by the current administration’s elected officials and unelected operatives to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are disastrous on three levels: economic, diplomatic and spiritual. These actions, justified with a litany of falsehoods from both official administration sources and right-wing influencers, will result in economic pain for many Americans.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An enhanced Strong Street crosswalk to make it safer to get to and from Wildwood Cemetery, Station Road improvements aimed at bettering connections to the Norwottuck Rail Trail and enhancing the use of a community garden at Butternut Farm are among more than $200,000 in resident requests coming before the Joint Capital Planning Committee.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Her class in Amherst College’s Science Center over, first-year student Zalia Salley pulled up a chair at a table set up near the building’s cafe, took some of the available blue, purple, violet and white yarn, and began crocheting.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Although only half the amount originally sought by the town manager, the Town Council is providing an extra $500,000 from free cash for resurfacing roads and doing sidewalk repairs this spring, summer and fall.

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

Are we getting stupider? David Brooks writes in the New York Times that stupidity has come to define our politics. Even intelligent people can also be stupid, he argues. They can come to believe in conspiracist theories and make decisions against their own interests.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A Greenfield resident hired by the town to compile minutes for meetings, including Town Council sessions, is contending that Amherst officials are violating the state’s Open Meeting Law by not posting minutes in a timely manner.

Staff Report

AMHERST — A retail, event and satellite meeting space for the University of Massachusetts is open in Amherst center.