Serving the Amherst Regional High School community since 1914.
New dance teacher Remy Fernández-O’Brien is no stranger to ARHS. In fact, they are a 2008 graduate who fell in love with dance while taking courses with former dance teacher Tracy Vernon in the...
New physical education teacher Matthew Travis is thrilled to be a new teacher at ARHS. He currently teaches Health, tenth grade Physical Education and two electives: PE: Invasion Games and PE: Rec Games Travis...
Kristen Ripley is a new art teacher at ARHS who is excited to teach Drawing with Pen and Ink, Watercolor Painting, Digital Photography and Sculpture. Ripley starts her day by dropping her kids off...
Imagine going to college with a major in journalism, but when you graduate you realize journalism is not at all for you, so you become a teacher instead. Meet the new Academic skills and Financial...
Like a handful of the new teachers at ARHS, new engineering and physics teacher John Fabel actually grew up in Amherst and attended ARHS. “It was a good high school for me,” said Fabel....
Wilnelia Meléndez was welcomed into the ARHS faculty this fall, teaching Spanish 1 and Spanish 2. “I have [actually] been in the district for six years but I started teaching here just this year,”...
This year’s Theater Company has been hard at work and one of their first shows of the season, Bing Bong, made quite an impression in late October. Bing Bong was an immersive theater piece...
For the first time ever, there is an Anime Club here at ARHS. Senior Phoenix Ferreira Ford is excited to be the co-advisor of the popular club. “Over 100 people signed up and there...
I rarely feel like a senior. For me, and the rest of the class of 2022, the pandemic stole the latter half of our sophomore year and the vast majority of our junior year....
Despite a tough fall season, the ARHS girls’ field hockey team worked hard both on and off the field to create a strong community. Their team was smaller this year, leading to some challenges,...
The Amherst boys’ soccer season finally came to a close on Saturday, November 13 as they lost to Canton in the quarterfinals of States. The Hurricanes (ranked 20) upset both Silver Lake (13) and...
The ARHS girls varsity volleyball team had a breakout season this year, and seniors Delaney MacPhetres and Nicole Lambert and junior Audrey Bowen played key roles in making that happen. Last season, the team...
Three banners hang in Amherst Regional High School’s gymnasium filled with dates of every Western Massachusetts championship title won by the girls’ cross country team, starting in 1989 and ending with 2019. No sport...
The Amherst Hurricane girls’ varsity soccer team has had one of the best seasons in recent years, with an overall record of 9 wins and 1 loss despite having many new members on their...
The ARHS varsity golf team had a fast and intense season. Coach Carl Vigeland was glad that the team had two weeks of practicing before school and the season started. “Our first match was...
It’s 8:45 a.m. and students are filing in the main doors at ARHS. But some stop traffic when they see an impossibly cute and uplifting sight: Winston, the Amherst Police Department’s comfort dog. On...
During the seemingly endless year-long stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many worked or attended school from home, wore masks, and reduced contact with family and friends, many started to feel reopening was...
Following the emergence of COVID-19 last March, ARHS was closed to students for over a year. But this spring, as COVID-19 restrictions began to lift, life started to return to normal, and ARHS finally...
It’s a sunny day on the track. PE teacher Elizabeth Haygood is in her yellow official’s jacket corralling athletes into their heats and lanes. That’s her job. But she also goes above and beyond,...
The drums are roaring and the singers are belting out a traditional Puerto Rican call and response. Dancers in colorful flowing skirts and the occasional fedora prance down the floor in lines, and Tracy...
At the start of each English class, Mark Moriarty and his students stand and face the windows in his room, breathing quietly and practicing the opening structure of Tai Chi. “It’s about bringing everything...
Social Studies teacher Becca Leopold cannot believe she’s been teaching in the Amherst district for 24 years. While she both faces retirement and looks back on her career, she said she has many positive...
After 19 fantastic years working at ARHS, long time physics teacher Patty Blauner is ready to retire. Ms. Blauner attended high school just outside of Philadelphia. She then went on to do her undergraduate...
Anybody using Instagram this past summer during uprisings for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death probably knows what a social justice infographic looks like. If not, check out the site’s @soyouwanttotalkabout...
Every time I go to Big Y in Hadley, I am almost guaranteed to hear ARHS grad Miguel Cruz yelling my name to say hello from another part of the store, as he helps...
Seniors in high school all over the nation decided to apply to college in record-high numbers this fall and winter, thrilled by the potential return of in-person classes and the prospect of robust social...
When COVID-19 struck last spring, many found themselves isolated and trapped in their own homes. Like many of us in Western Mass, I felt fortunate to have access to the beautiful landscape of our...
The pandemic was a time for introspection and self-reflection. This caused many people to think about their image and consider new ways to express themselves. Others were searching for ways to regain confidence after...
At around 3:30 p.m. for the past few months, anyone passing by the lawn outside the cafeteria could hear the sounds of students singing. An hour later, in the back of the school behind...
Following a year of protest and racial unrest throughout the country, many searched for ways in which they could join the movement towards a less divided world. For Summit Academy clinician Erin Edinson, this...
