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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — With designs and precise cost estimates for a new track and field at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School possibly still six to nine months from being completed, members of the Regional School Committee are considering revisiting a 2022 vote...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — For almost 25 years, a property at 163 Montague Road has served as a sanctuary for dogs, cats and other small animals, ensuring that otherwise unwanted and homeless pets would get love and attention, and eventually be adopted.Now, more than...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Two trainings focused on improving staff knowledge of gender identity and sexual orientation, including a full day of professional development with presentations and workshops, are part of the Amherst-Pelham Regional school district’s...
By GENE STAMELL
During the course of our lives, each of us is ascribed many titles and roles. A few of mine, in chronological order, include son, cousin, brother, friend, boyfriend, husband, uncle, father, songwriter, teacher and grandfather. It is fun and humbling...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — Leverett voters are being asked to accept a series of road layouts and pursue permanent easements to accommodate a $2.71 million state project to rebuild a bridge over the Roaring Brook at a special Town Meeting on Tuesday.The session,...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
SHUTESBURY — A search is underway for a new superintendent to oversee the Erving School Union 28, a district that includes four elementary schools serving preschool through sixth-grade students in Shutesbury, Leverett, Erving, Wendell and New...
By SARENA NEYMAN
As a child of two Holocaust survivors and a product of Jewish day schools and Zionist summer camps, I was brought up to love Israel unconditionally.My great-grandmother moved to Palestine from Poland in the 1930s because she recognized the dangerous...
A recent letter writer against gun control uses a female walking in a dark garage as an example of having less gun control [“Gun control bill a ‘fool’s errand,’ Gazette, Oct. 23]. If his intention is to make women fearful enough to agree with less gun...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — As Leverett Elementary School sixth grader Layla Roderick maneuvers along the multivine traverse, grabbing ropes dangling from above while moving her feet on a taut line extended between trees, Vi Salacuse ensures her classmate stays safe...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — During the pandemic, numerous cars daily parked along Rattlesnake Gutter Road up to the gates that have for more than 20 years kept a more than mile long section of the narrow gravel road closed to through traffic, indicating that people...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — Live music, horse-drawn wagon rides and a variety of artisan vendors will be set up at the Leverett Co-op Harvest Festival, being held on the grounds of the 180 Rattlesnake Gutter Road store Sunday afternoon.Running from noon to 4 p.m., the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Interim Superintendent Douglas Slaughter promised Tuesday that he will issue a draft report based on the contents of a recently released Title IX investigation, though he cautioned that he must abide by confidentiality of personnel records...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — At least one investigation that began last spring into allegations of transphobic actions by counselors at the Amherst Regional Middle School, and possibly the hiring practices used by the assistant superintendent at the time, appears to be...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A search for a new superintendent to lead the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools is beginning with the creation of a subcommittee, whose members are drawn from both Regional and Union 26 school committees, to oversee the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — As a Title IX and associated investigations into alleged mistreatment of trans and nonbinary students at the Amherst Regional Middle School draw to a close, the interim superintendent is informing the Regional School Committee that he...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional public schools will be led on a temporary basis by Douglas Slaughter, the school’s finance chief, who for the second time this year has been named the interim superintendent.With Superintendent...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — An interim superintendent to lead the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional school districts could be in place by Thursday evening.Even though Amherst has only two School Committee representatives, following the resignations of three...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — With less than a week before they must hire an interim or temporary superintendent to lead the Amherst, Amherst-Pelham Regional and Pelham schools, regional school committee members said at a Wednesday meeting that they aren’t sure who will...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A temporary or interim superintendent for the Amherst, Amherst-Pelham and Pelham public schools could be named at a joint meeting of the Regional and Union 26 school committees Wednesday.The meeting, in a remote format rather than being held...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Superintendent Michael Morris will leave his position after seven years in the role, a mutual departure announced by the Amherst-Pelham Regional and Union 26 school committees Friday afternoon.The announcement comes after the committees met...
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