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By making the postseason and winning their first game since the 2014 season, the girls’ field hockey team made history. “I think we accomplished our goal of winning a game,” said senior and co-captain...
Newly elected senior class president Peter Treyz, in an attempt to prove he is “not all talk,” brought the first ever Spikeball tournament to ARHS on September 27. Sixty students participated in the tournament,...
Starting off the 2017 fall soccer season, the girls’ Amherst varsity soccer team haddealt with many setbacks. The loss of 11 seniors this year put the team through some rough circumstances, but it hasn’t...
The Amherst district has a new food service director and he has a big vision: to get “good food on people’s plates every day.” Ryan Harb started at UMass in 2004 as a business...
New staff member Dw McCraven never thought she would end up working where she went to high school. After graduating from ARHS, McCraven studied at Manhattanville College, then earned a master’s degree at Columbia...
The ARHS golf team had high hopes of improving after a 2016 season finish at 9-8. As of late October, the Hurricanes were 7-6 and looking to make the MIAA playoffs behind the leadership...
Nate Mondschein is enjoying his time filling in for one semester for performing arts teacher and department head, John Bechtold, who is currently on sabbatical in England. Mr. Mondschein, who usually goes by Mr....
My job at the high school is doing 75 things at once. That’s what it feels like to be a teacher,” said Kate Kuhn, a new English teacher at ARHS. Ms. Kuhn was hired...
Matthew Despres, a newly hired English teacher, teaches three blocks of Tenth Grade Literature, Writing, and Public Speaking; one section of American Literature and Society; and one Journalistic Writing class. While it is Mr....
Justin Xiong, a sophomore at ARHS, passed away on the morning of August 10 at Baystate Medical Center. In the time since, his loving family has been celebrating the passion and purpose he brought...
As technology progresses, employers in all types of fields are demanding more workers who have tech skills and experience. “It’s really expanding; it’s growing,” said senior Neosha Narayanan. “They’re going to be adding thousands...
At the end of the 2016-2017 school year, theater department head John Bechtold announced that he would be on sabbatical for the first few months of the 2017-2018 school year, working in London with...
Three major hurricanes over the past couple of months have swept through regions in the southern U.S. and have also significantly impacted Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean. The people in these...
After losing five key seniors at the end of their successful 23 win, one loss season last year, the girls’ varsity volleyball team didn’t know what to expect for the upcoming 2017 fall season....
Boys’ varsity soccer was off to a rousing start this season, with 15 wins and 5 losses in November. They’d taken down Monument Mountain, Mount Greylock, West Springfield, Minnechaug, Agawam, Westfield, Woodstock Academy, Northampton,...
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...
Junior Sam Jackson uses the app Snapchat at least five times an hour to converse with friends. “It’s my main source of communication,” he said. “I have 11 streaks,” he said, referring to a...
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...
At twelve years old, Lucas Kendall made his first beats while in a garage rock band called “Who Shot Hollywood.” Now, in 2017, the young redhead from the rock band is known as rapper...
A garage filled with a variety of tools and a greasy smell is quite common for the tinker or the mechanic and the tunnel vision they get focusing on one project for weeks can...
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...
Many teenagers in high school have no idea what they will do once they leave high school. Some may not know what they are interested in studying; others may not even go to college....
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...
Climate change is a big deal. In an effort to combat impending global disaster, clean and renewable energy has become increasingly popular. Not only does solar energy protect our planet it also is free....
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...
