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Walking into art teacher Kristen Ripley’s room, color is everywhere! Yarn, string, paint, art supplies. It’s a welcoming, creative space that many students look forward to entering each day. Projects from past years adorn...
If you enter the BRYT (Bridges for Resilient Youth in Transition) room on Tuesday mornings, you will likely be welcomed with a warm, cuddly greeting—by students’ now-favorite four-legged friend, Jordan. Since last spring, Jordan...
“‘I’ve never had a crush on anyone in my entire life,’ I said. It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I...
For years now, in Amherst and surrounding towns, people have been asking: which Amherst pizza tastes the best? Though this opinion piece represents my, and only my thoughts, I consider myself a pizza expert. ...
Lynne Ramsay’s 2018 film You Were Never Really Here is one of my favorite films, though many people have never heard of it. The movie’s use of artistic and beautiful cinematography is used like...
The movies Barbie (Greta Gerwig) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan), took over the cinemas on their simultaneous release date, July 21, 2023. Rather than being deliberately marketed as a double feature, fans created the idea...
Blockbuster movies usually feature big names and are often meaningless action movies or feel-good dramas that end on a high note. Killers of the Flower Moon largely departs from that model. Even though it...
I wanted to watch the highest-rated movie to see if it lived up to the hype so I went to IMDB and Letterboxd, the two most popular movie-reviewing websites. IMDB’s number one was Shawshank...
As most people from Amherst may know, getting recruited can seem like a pipe dream. One student-athlete has risen above these obstacles and is now a committed DII athlete. Francesca Sloan has played lacrosse...
The Amherst Hurricanes football team was on an impressive journey this fall, turning last season’s struggles into a successful 4-0 record at the start of their season. With leadership and talent at its core,...
ARHS sophomore Sofia DaSilva-Askew has been playing tennis since she was four years old. “My sister was originally supposed to play but I got more into it,” she said. “ I remember winning my...
Andrew Webster never went to architecture school, but he now runs an environmentally sustainable architectural firm in Amherst, MA. He knew from the beginning he was interested in the environment, so he got a...
On May 13, when members of the Amherst Pelham Education Association (APEA)—the union representing teachers, paraeducators, and clerical staff—announced an all-district no-confidence vote in Superintendent Michael Morris and Assistant Superintendent of Diversity, Equity, and...
Following The Graphic’s breaking story about alleged transphobia by ARMS counselors and other district staff–and students–at ARMS, three guidance counselors and the assistant superintendent were placed on administrative leave, and the superintendent took a...
Thirteen-year-old Amhest Regional Middle schooler Inanna Balkin didn’t mean to start an anti-sexual harassment club. But when she was sitting in seventh-grade science class, learning about how atoms never actually touch each other, suddenly,...
Activism can be viewed and expressed through many different lenses and mediums. But art has been shown to be one of the more diverse and flexible ways to push for social change, sometimes simply...
The Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families exhibit lined the halls of Amherst Regional High School until June 1, and made its way to Amherst Regional Middle School on Friday,...
On May 6, during Northampton’s Pride weekend, internationally renowned Indian transgender performance artist, writer, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon gave a show in Florence, Mass. at the Bombyx Center for Equity as a fundraiser for...
When science teacher Annie Paradis, art teachers Elena Betke-Brunswick and Kristen Ripley, and guidance department head Lisa Zephyr heard about transphobia and anti-LGBTQ bullying that went unchecked at ARMS, negatively affecting queer students, they...
On May 3, at 7 p.m. a group of about 20 shuffled into a room located in the New Africa House on the UMass campus for a reading by queer Pakistani poet Bushra Rehman,...
Generation Ratify Amherst is a youth-led organization fighting to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It is the chapter of the national organization, Generation Ratify. Generation Ratify Amherst was founded in 2020 by Marisol Pierce...
A years-long negotation between the Amherst-Pelham Educators Association (teacher and staff union) and the Amherst School Committee is inching closer to an agreement. The School Committee’s most recent proposed offer is a 3% raise...
After three years of uncertainty during the pandemic, the ARHS band, choir, and orchestra finally organized their first big field trip, to Cleveland, Ohio. Kendra Saunders is an ARHS senior and a band student...
While students have access to lots of interesting content in school, there’s nothing like a field trip to combine the opportunity to learn something new with relaxation, community building, and fun off school grounds. ...
On May 7, at 1 p.m., about 50 people gathered on the Amherst Town Common for an event that had never occurred before in the town’s history, the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month...
Best Buddies is an international organization “that creates opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities” and often pairs them with peers in the general education population and beyond for friendship and community building...
When asked to describe his adaptaption of the 1915 play, ‘The 39 Steps,’ the show’s producer, director, and “rock number four” Cameron Gray Lee, an ARHS senior stopped and took a breath. “It is...
The ARHS senior prom is an annual event that takes place in May or June, but it does not happen without a lot of planning and hard work from the senior class advisor Wilnelia...
The track team at ARHS needs runners. With about nine girls on the team and 20-30 boys, the team is hoping for new athletes in the coming years. While the 2023 spring season has...
Senior Charles May, captain of the baseball team, developed his love for baseball when his father Tom May showed him the game at four years old. May fell in love and has been playing...
