Peter Treyz recently sat down with Principal Mark Jackson to ask him about his beliefs, regrets, fears, and motivations, as part of Peter’s contribution to a group project–a final magazine called Desire, for Journalistic...

On the last day before April  break at Amherst Regional High School, hours after most of the students and teachers had left, 60 people sat in the ARHS library to listen to the stories...

On May 11, ARHS held a Dialogue Day, designed to increase understanding, address problems, and question popular thoughts or actions. The goal was to make changes in the community through discussion. The organizers provided...

My sister Rita Child is an 11 year old fifth grader. She is also deaf. She attends the Marie Philip School for the Deaf in Framingham, Massachusetts. She has two hearing parents and one...

As you walk into the school cafeteria and pass by any table, there is a common sight: people on their phones. Many students are eating their food while looking at a screen. Sometimes the...

The teachers in elementary school told us not to lay on the carpet because we could get sick. We used to wait in line for the two bathroom stalls that actually had locks. The...

What’s the first thing your parents told you when you got your license? At least for me it was: “never text while driving, ever.” Most people acknowledge that texting while driving is a risk....

Retiring educator Joan Snowdon has been an ELL (English Language Learner) teacher at ARHS for the past 21 years. Her students moved to Amherst from countries all over the world, some with no experience...

Sitting in her sunny classroom on a Monday in May, retiring English teacher Tina Browne reflected on not just her full career, but a life lived with purpose and passion. Before settling down in...

Wearing his signature sleeveless tee shirt and a kind smile, retiring custodian Stu Kinsman looked back on his time as a member of the ARHS maintenance staff. He described his 21 years of working...

In a school with such vast opportunities for students, some get to do more interesting things, like host students from Senegal and The Gambia in their houses.   This was an unique experience and...

As is always the case in June, seniors are preparing to move to the next phase in their lives and the rest of the school is looking on with anticipation and a hint of...

Going in Style, originally made in 1979, directed by Martin Brest, and now the 2017 version, directed by Zach Braff, was a comedy with a bit of adventure, that at the same time had...

Three years ago, Marvel’s first Guardians of the Galaxy movie broke the mold of the typical superhero movie. This year, the five unlikely heroes returned to prove that superhero movies are more than just...

As the times have changed at the high school, various large building projects have taken place. In 1993, an addition was made to the building. As of recently, the gym is being renovated. Lighting...

There was a sigh of relief across the world when Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist, won in the second round of the French presidential elections, defeating the far-right Marine Le Pen. Approaching the election...

“I think the impact that colorism has on young girls—light girls and dark girls—leave scars on the soul that follow them well into womanhood,” said author Iyanla Vanzant at the beginning of Light Girls....

If you haven’t heard of Game of Thrones, you are missing out. This TV series on HBO is based off of the epic fantasy novel series by George R.R. Martin called A Song of...

From April 8 through April 22, a select group of ARHS students lived in Valence, France as part of the French Exchange. Accompanied by Spanish teacher Mari Vicente and ARMS teachers Patrick Hunter and...

Winning the Massachusetts state bass fishing championship is an impressive accomplishment and going on to place third in the northern conference makes you a name in the national bass fishing community. But doing all...

In 1989, with the decades-old communist state on the verge of collapse, the people of Poland faced a question crucial to their national identity: what does it mean to be Polish? The same year,...

I’ve always been fascinated with drag culture, with drag queens and drag kings. Many drag artists are members of the LGBTQ community and love the freedom they gain from exploring non-binary gender or sexuality...