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The average office worker receives about 120 emails a day in a day. Pam White is no exception. “I couldn’t even count without really counting,” she joked. The slew of emails are just one...
“I know a lot because I’ve seen a lot,’’ said former ARHS paraeducator Howard Mentin, who retired in 2018, and sadly passed away in March of this year. Howard Mentin was born in the...
When 2:30 p.m. rolls around on a Tuesday, the small yet cozy bubble tea café we all know and love, Limered, begins to fill with Amherst middle and high schoolers alike. A long line...
Nearly eight years ago, on April 17, 2011, the season one premiere of Game of Thrones was aired on HBO. Over the last eight years, Game of Thrones, sometimes referred to as GoT, has...
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels recently reached 415 parts per million this year for the first time ever in recorded history, according to the magazine Scientific American. Those rising CO2 levels, the subsequent threat of...
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, People of Color United club members and their advisors, Assistant Principal Mary Custard and health and physical education teacher Elizabeth Haygood, boarded a three-hour bus for Harlem, NY. The...
This has been a big year for the Senegambian Scholars club at ARHS. Last February, a group of ARHS students traveled to Senegal and The Gambia for three and a half weeks for a...
Starting next year, ARHS will be adding a new class called Adaptive Gym. Adaptive Gym is a class where students with disabilities from the PIP (Pathways to Independence program) will be partnered with general...
Taj-Amir Torres is a former Amherst High School football player who has taken his game to the next level, grabbing a slot in the NFL. He agreed to do a special interview for The...
Hunter Wolfson started fishing at a young age, about 2 or 3, he said. “I kinda just grew up on it. It’s like a family tradition,” he said. He has continued to pursue...
In Australia, in 1996 a gunman opened fire on shop owners and tourists with two semi-automatic rifles in what was later dubbed The Port Arthur massacre. Thirty five people were left dead and 23...
Imagine a world in which sea levels rise to the point that places like Cape Cod and much of Florida become submerged, a world where people have to evacuate from coastal cities such as...
Anti-Semitism, defined as “hostility or prejudice toward Jews,” is more visible than ever, from white nationalist chants of “Jews will not replace us” at a deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in...
We have turned the corner of MCAS season. All sophomores took the “Next-Generation” MCAS testing, on Chromebooks, starting with the English Language Arts (ELA) portion, on March 26 and 28. This was the first...
ARHS French teacher Oumy Cisse and choral director Todd Fruth recently learned they had won the Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation of Western Massachusetts. According to...
Mental wellness is a topic that’s worthy of most teenagers’ attention. On Wednesday March 13, students in grades 9-12 were lucky enough to attend two assemblies that featured a panel of mental health professionals...
The Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee approved two new and exciting Advanced Placement (AP) classes that will be offered beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. The first new course, AP World History, will be taught...
All Amherst schools were audited by Julia Garofalo and Stéphane Pierre-Louis of Kessler McGuinness & Associates (KMA) in December of 2018 to find out whether they are truly accessible to people with disabilities. The...
All those hours of practicing sometimes do pay off. ARHS students Isabelle Bouvier, Amanda Dee, Celia Douville Beaudoin, Angela Oldham Barca, and Sarah VanHorn were honored on March 9 at the All-State Music Festival,...
Career Day, an annual event held in ARHS advisories since 2016, took place this year on Thursday February 28. Tenth and eleventh graders attended the sessions. On this special day, parents and community members...
When Amanda Lewis, who runs the ARHS Writing Center, and Ella Stocker, school librarian, noticed that students frequently come to them with the same sorts of questions, they decided to create a series of...
Taking action toward conservation and increasing environmental awareness is what the Environmental Action Club is all about. And this club practices the three Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Not only that, but according to...
If you asked any student at ARHS if they are stressed, almost everyone would say that some kind of pressure has weighed down on them in the last few months, be it academic or...
The ARHS yearbook, or as it’s more commonly known, “The Goldbug,” has been published for almost 100 years and has featured themes ranging from Pirates and Exploration to Science-Fiction and Space. While technology education...
On March 16, 2019, eight teams of ARHS students jumped into a one-day competition against each other on the new and budding topic of artificial intelligence relating to neuroscience. JETS (The Junior Engineering and...
When most people hear the word “ramen,” bright red and orange packages stacked in supermarket aisles appear in their mind. However, a new and authentic ramen restaurant recently opened up that takes those noodles...
This year’s musical was “Tuck Everlasting,” which was performed by the ARHS theater company. Close to 150 students from all over the school were involved in this year’s production. Four shows were held from...
On March 4, 2019, the dreams of many ARHS students and faculty came true: they finally got their first snow day. It was a perfect day; the light puffy snow was easy to clean...
Paraeducators are an integral part of the school community. Typically, they are assigned to specific students in need of additional academic or emotional support, but they often move beyond their stated role. There are...
Senior Sophia Jacobs-Townsley took third in the nation running the 5K, and Junior Pontes da Veiga, Isaiah Moyston, Ben Fang, and Kai Bailin were also on top of the world, after coming in fifth...
