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Established in 1961, by President Kennedy, USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development, has been pivotal in responding to crises worldwide every year since. In addition to human-made and natural crises, USAID...
Paraeducator Crystal Colon is frequently spotted in classrooms or in the gym at ARHS, where she has been the long-term sub for the Unified PE program. Before working at ARHS for the past seven...
Ashleigh Sayer, Head of the English Language Learning (ELL) department at ARHS, said that for years, she and her ELL colleague Stephani Lopez have offered support in learning academic English to around 50 students....
Bagels have always been my go-to breakfast food. I’m always down to try new places, but recently I was thinking about different bagel places and realized I don’t have a favorite bagel spot. I...
The ARHS girls’ varsity tennis team has experienced exponential growth and increased popularity during the past few years. Having only five members in 2021 meant they could only have three singles players and one...
In October of 2024, just weeks before the official Amherst swimming and diving season was set to begin, the home base pool at ARMS stopped being usable due to a water pump issue. This...
Like many people, I learned how to bake bread during the pandemic, mastering bagels, challah, and pizza. I enjoyed baking for my family, and it was fun to experiment with different variables like hydration,...
On Saturday, March 29, 2025, I watched the All States choir performance at Boston Symphony Hall. All States is a select group of choral students from across the state, chosen through a selective audition...
Frank Ocean, whose real name is Christopher Edwin Breaux, began recording and creating music in 2005 while still a high school student. After releasing two albums, Frank Ocean “vanished from the world,” according to...
It’s a Tuesday in January in B-period Advanced Video Production class, and students are typing away at their computers, ripping footage off cameras, editing their final projects, and most likely trying desperately to get...
In room 146, on the language hallway, resides a program known to students as the BRYT (Bridge for Resilient Youth in Transition) room. There you can find the BRYT Clinical Coordinator, Hayley Greland, whose...
William Roundy, the one and only Latin teacher this year at ARHS, spends a lot of his time out of school staying active and fit. He runs, weightlifts, and does yoga; however, one of...
Todd Fruth has been a music teacher at ARHS for almost nine years. He teaches Choir, Music Production, and Music Theory classes, but on the side, he enjoys yoga, running, meditation, games, travel, and...
Though Ashleigh Sayer is now the ELL department head at ARHS, she started teaching in 2007 and began teaching ELL classes in Amherst in 2016. In addition to running the programs for English language...
On March 1, 2024, Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Dr. Slump, and many other series passed away due to an acute subdural hematoma, leaving behind a roughly 40-year legacy of inspirational...
I was scrolling through YouTube to get my music started to clean my room when I realized Rod Wave had dropped his new album. The moment I heard the first few lyrics it spoke...
Since his passing in September of 2018 at the age of 26, rapper Mac Miller has released two studio albums recorded prior to his death. The most recent dropped on what would have been...
The film “I’m Still Here” directed by Walter Salles, is based on the book of the same name written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family during a really difficult time in Brazil’s history....
Juror 2 is about a man named Justin Kemp (played by actor Nicholas Hoult) who is chosen for a jury on a murder trial, only to realize he may be responsible for the murder...
Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers, is a Gothic retelling of the classic vampire story and draws inspiration from many spheres of literature, film, and folklore. Eggers is well known for his eerie period pieces...
ARHS graduate Rosie Dinsmore, age 23, is an artist who sees beauty in the mundane and recognizes creativity in those who may not see it for themselves. She is the kind of person who...
Leila Tunnell is 36 years old and works as the garden educator for the Amherst Public Schools. But she is also the co-head coach of the Bx Varsity Ultimate team at Amherst High School....
Jim Pistrang has been coaching Ultimate Frisbee at ARMS since 1994, but his legacy goes far beyond his 30-plus years of coaching in Amherst. As a high school senior in New Jersey, Pistrang helped...
