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This year’s ARHS spring musical, “Spring Awakening,” is sure to excite, delight, and challenge audiences. It is an “angsty rock musical adaption of the seminal play about the trials and tribulations of growing up”...
Are you passionate about video games and tabletop games? Do you want to have fun in a welcoming, relaxed environment? Would you like to learn how to play Super Smash Bros.? Then ARHS’s Game...
In the spring of 2019, ARHS senior Zora Dallmann was hiking in the woods near her house with her cousin when she came across a baby bear. Dallmann’s cousin is from Arizona so she...
Imagine this: you are playing your heart out on the athletic field, proud to represent your school and town and to show the skills and talents you have been honing for months. You run...
As the sun set on another football season at ARHS, players, coaches, and fans were jubilant. The team had a historic undefeated season (their first in 60 years), won the Western Mass title (their...
As a long-time female hockey player, on mostly male teams, I’ve had a lot of time to consider the topic of sexism in hockey. From my vantage point, men’s professional hockey teams are heavily...
Minute by minute, more results were coming in. None of them had beaten his score yet, but Evan Rutherford still had to anxiously wait for the rest of the competitors to finish. Rutherford was...
Vaping is a plague. It has successfully morphed itself into being a socially acceptable practice, even heightening one’s popularity levels if done in public. Being easily accessible and addictive, this vile practice has taken...
A student-athlete lays on the grime-covered weight room floor. She is confined to the weight room because she is barred from practicing with her lacrosse team due to the fact that she fell to...
At the U.S. Women’s Soccer World Cup Victory Parade in New York City on July 10, 2019, United States Soccer Federation (USSF) President Carlos Cordeiro was interrupted during his speech as loud “Equal Pay”...
New principal Gene Jones said that his first two months at the helm have been “very smooth” and that he’s excited about what the remainder of his first year will bring. “I am honored....
The week of September 23 to 28 was a flame of a Spirit Week for a usually much quieter ARHS. Students from every class arrived to school decked out in their school spirit, but...
A storm was brewing in Western Mass. this fall, and it wasn’t anything Pioneer Valley pigskin fans expected. The Amherst Regional High School football team came for all the Massachusetts Division 5 hardware, and...
The ever controversial Integrated Math Program (IMP) curriculum is gone from ARHS classrooms. It is replaced by College Preparatory Mathematics (CPM). The new curriculum is guided by similar principles as IMP but has many...
On Friday, September 20, starting in Australia and spreading from the Pacific islands all the way across Europe, and then to 800 U.S. cities, young people and their allies kicked off a Global Climate...
The Amherst Town Council and school system have an impending choice to make that will determine how much closer our district can come to the full implementation of electric school buses in its fleet. ...
As the A-period bell rings, the Hurricane Joe coffee cart is preparing for motion. In room 167, home to the Pathways to Independence program for students with developmental disabilities, the bean grinding and brewing...
On October 3, 2019, before 6 p.m., the doors of ARHS opened wide to an array of parents eager to experience an abbreviated version of a “day in the life” of their children at...
The smell of different restaurants and the sound of dance music combined to fill the air above East Pleasant Street in downtown Amherst. People of all ages walked around, little kids most entranced by...
This year’s Puerto Rico Day was held on Monday September 23 instead of past year’s date November 19; the September date linked up with the 151 year anniversary of Grito de Lares, the revolt...
On July 25, President Donald Trump called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss U.S. military aid in Ukraine. A memo later released by the White House hinted at a “favor” Trump had asked of...
Have you ever wanted to join a writing club? Or work with a group of students who enjoy discussing literature? Two clubs at Amherst Regional High School, The Minks literary magazine and the Literary...
“I love getting folks outside for an adventure,” said Sara Dorsey, a science teacher at ARHS and new advisor to the Outing Club. “I believe that outdoor experiences can have an incredible, positive impact...
On October 1, a rainy Tuesday, while sitting in English class, a group of kindergarteners burst into song. However, they were all singing in Spanish, with smiles on their faces. Fort River Elementary School...
From September 19-22, 2019, local poet Jay Ritchie ran poetry workshops in many sophomore English classes at ARHS, in conjunction with the Emily Dickinson Museum, which coordinated the event. For the past six years,...
Omi Omy, a great new Vietnamese restaurant currently in the Big Y plaza in Amherst Massachusetts, is run by ARHS grad (class of 2000) and father Chuong Son, who hails from Vietnam. Son described...
If you’ve ever paid attention to the morning announcements or stared at the wall on your way to class, you’ll have noticed that the ARHS theater department puts on multiple productions each year. These...
The new Executive Chef at Amherst College, Jamil Asad-Ubinas, has plans to help ARHS and other public schools in the area. He hopes to offer students more choices than they are accustomed to seeing...
ARHS grad Phila Son decided to come back to the high school–to work. He was hired this summer as one of the school’s new adjustment counselors. “I decided I wanted to be a school...
Chantelle Brigham-McMillan, new to ARHS last year, is an always-friendly face in the Academic Achievement Center. Brigham-McMillan, who lives in Northfield and drives an hour to work every day, is an Americorps/Dial Self employee...
