Serving the Amherst Regional High School community since 1914.
The ARHS elevator, which is 28 years old, has required major repairs for nearly a decade. This is typical, given that elevators have a life expectancy of 20 years, before one must consider “modernization...
This year, ARMS has seen improvement in its attendance rate, behavioral activity, and academic performance. While many factors are responsible, it’s possible that the Morning Movement program for middle school students has played a...
On October 2, 2024, with the support of the Healey-Driscoll administration, MassEducate began providing free community college to Massachusetts residents of any age and income without a bachelor’s degree, covering full tuition costs and...
Bad Bunny, also known as Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is an ultra-famous Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, rapper, artist, actor, wrestler, fashion icon, and much more, who is slated to perform at this year’s Super Bowl...
Early in the morning on Sunday, December 7, 2025, a record-breaking 6,246 participants waited eagerly at the starting line to kick off Northampton’s 22nd annual Hot Chocolate Run. The run is an annual fundraiser...
In 1987, a new publishing company sprang up in Northampton, Interlink Publishing, founded by Michel Moushabeck, a writer, editor, publisher, and musician of Palestinian Arab descent who lives in Leverett, Massachusetts. Interlink Publishing is...
On Friday December 5, starting at 7:00 p.m. many gathered into the UMass Commonwealth Honors College, eagerly awaiting the start of The Massachusetts Review Winter Party, hosted by the Massachusetts Review and Interlink publisher...
Upon entering Masuda’s Cafe, a new spot at 17 Kellogg Avenue opened by Masuda Abdullah, visitors find a warm, inviting, bright space, with tall ceilings and comfy furniture. The staff are super friendly and...
On the evening of Friday, November 7, 2025, ARHS students walked into the school’s side entrance and were met with flashing lights, booming music, and a professional DJ at the forefront of it all....
At 8:19 p.m. on Friday, November 7, 2025, the Amherst Fire Department responded to a call about a fire on a construction site of 47 Olympia Drive, which quickly spread to 57 Olympia Drive,...
ARHS music teacher Kara Kahgee Bear, 37, has been a teacher for 14 years in Amherst, and she works at both ARHS and ARMS. At ARHS, she teaches Symphony band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band,...
Dixon Bermudez is a paraeducator at ARHS who supports students and strives to create a welcoming environment for everyone. He begins his day at 8:45 a.m. in the AIMS (Academic Individualized Mainstream Support) room,...
While its official acronym is the Multicultural Student Achievement Network, students of color describe MSAN as a place to come together and uplift one another. ARHS senior Gael Buford attended this year’s MSAN conference...
The ARHS Women’s Rights Club is planning a field trip to Salem, Massachusetts this year, to learn more about women’s history. Salem is not just a charming city on the northern coast of Massachusetts;...
It takes a team of resourceful people to execute a great theater production, and ARHS has many students excited to lead the charge. ARHS senior Moss Conant is a props master for the Theater...
For many years, ARHS hosted an International Dinner the week before Thanksgiving to celebrate the cultures of students from the school community and to create connections. However, the dinner eventually stopped happening after the...
ARHS’s Music Production Club isn’t exactly new; the club actually existed for a few years until the 2023-2024 school year. The majority of the club members at the time were seniors, including former president...
ARMS special education teacher Michael Rousseau has also been the head coach for the Amherst boys’ varsity hockey team for five years. Seniors on the varsity squad from ARHS include Alexander Marlin, Jason Kim,...
Wrestler Daniel Sherpa’s goal this season is to win the Western Mass Division 2 tournament at 144 pounds. His uncle, who actually wrestled for Amherst back when ARHS had a team, won the Western...
Sophomore Claire Fortin and junior Rajani Conyers are both among several co-captains of this year’s indoor track and field team, which they called an inclusive and welcoming athletic space. “There are no cuts; anyone...
This year’s boys’ basketball team has a record of 5 wins, 15 losses, but they are aiming to improve as they go. They are headed up by senior captains Gael Buford and Sam Woodruff,...
Tik-Tok and Instagram are filled with get-ready-with-me videos (GRWM) where influencers, celebrities, fitness gurus, and college students share tips about how they get ready for their days. But we were interested in the get-ready-with-me...
Most ARHS students know Dar’Keith Lofton, who works in IT at ARHS, from the occasional emails he sends about Chromebook repairs or his visits to their classes to help teachers with technology. Very few,...
Starting this spring, ARHS will offer a new quarter-long English class: Expository Writing: Writing About Music, taught by English teacher Matthew Despres, who has worked at ARHS since 2017. This senior writing course will...
Thrifting is an expanding art form—an economically and environmentally friendly way to shop that is also fun. Social media played a large role in the popularization of thrifting among people of all generations, especially...
Although I’m not the best at keeping up with horror movies or watching them on my own at home, I love watching them in the theater. I recently saw both “The Black Phone 2”...
However obvious this might sound, my definition of a scary movie is “a movie that scares me.” The only real “horror” movie I’ve actually seen was Fear Street in eighth grade, and I couldn’t...
Tae Weiss, a 2023 alumn of ARHS—and also my sister—recently wrote, co-starred, and directed her first short film. This project has been brought to the screen with the help of Northampton High School and...
Aaron Buford graduated from ARHS (and the A Better Chance program) decades ago. After that, he went to college, had a family, eventually became a high school social studies teacher in Springfield, Mass., and...
Between 2021 and 2024, pickleball grew 223.5%, making it the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. But what is behind this rapid growth? Pickleball was created in 1965 in Washington state when Joel Pritchard and...
