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Carol Lollis, a Western Mass resident, has been a photographer at The Daily Hampshire Gazette since 1992 and a photo editor since 2008. Dedicating so much of her life to her career, Lollis believes...
Amanda Mittman (MS, RD, and LDN) is the founder of Happy Valley Nutrition, located at 25 Pray Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her business is dedicated to weight-inclusive nutrition care. If you visit her website,...
Local gym owner Kirik Jenness is no stranger to the thrill and excitement of cage fighting. Having co-founded New England Submission Fighting, the first Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym in Massachusetts, Jenness is a...
Every fall, high school seniors across the country begin the process of applying to college. The big question looms: will their 650-word statement be enough to get them into the college they desire? The...
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering. The idea...
Field mice and rats might be uninteresting or repellent to you, but the film “The Secret of NIMH” will change your whole view on the small things. It features beautiful imagery, amazing storytelling that...
Most people love french fries. But there are so many varieties, shapes, sizes, and seasonings for these tasty potato treats. So I decided to test them all over the Valley and see whose fries...
On December 14, 2012, 20 first graders and six staff members’ lives were lost in the Sandy Hook, CT school shooting, permeating fear into schools across America and making it one of the most...
Mike Kurtz is not just the face and founder of the nationally renowned honey brand Mike’s Hot Honey, but he is also an ARHS grad (class of 2000!) who was born and raised in...
ARPS teachers sought help from the teachers’ union this fall when they returned to work to a September 4 memo from the superintendent entitled “Welcome Back,” dictating that they could only take one paid...
To students, ARHS often seems to run like a well-oiled machine. Attendance is entered by the end of the day, and parents and guardians know if we didn’t make it to school or if...
At the start of the 2025-2026 school year, ARHS dance students expected to be greeted by a new teacher, knowing that dance teacher Remy Fernandez-O’Brien had left ARHS to move to Spain with their...
This year, ARHS students returned to school to a largely unwelcome change to their school day. In the wake of a parent complaint filed with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE),...
Late in September, students who parked in the ARHS lot returned to their cars to find flyers on their windshields. These flyers reminded students that they needed to pay $80 a year for a...
This July, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill to create phone-free schools from ‘bell to bell’ that will be implemented in high schools in the Commonwealth at the start of the next school year. ...
When students returned to school this fall, something miraculous was happening–the long-awaited new track and field project was in full swing, with construction crews working long days to bring the plan to fruition by...
In November 2024, Massachusetts residents voted to abolish the MCAS as a graduation requirement and replace the standardized test with district-designed policies requiring students to demonstrate mastery of math, English, and science. At ARHS,...
On the sunny morning of Friday, September 19, 2025, a group of Amherst students and teachers walked to the Emily Dickinson Museum to attend a poetry workshop given by poet Terrance Hayes as part...
When Jonathan Rosen was a student at ARHS in 1999, he took a Journalism class with English Department Head Sara Barber-Just, who was finishing up her first year of what would be a decades-long...
ARHS junior Yatharth Rajakumar is the leader of the school’s new Rocketry Team, a club whose goal is to design and build a rocket to launch, seeing where they stack up against other teams...
Every fall, the ARHS Theater Company, advised by Performing Arts Department Head John Bechtold, prepares to present a fall play in the auditorium. Auditions are held a few weeks after the new school year...
This year, Gino Sorcinelli, who graduated from ARHS in 2002, just joined the special education department at his alma mater. He began as the new Student Support Program (SSP) Case Manager at the end...
Diane Chamberlain kicked off the year as the new principal at Summit Academy, a small public day school affiliated with ARPS that serves students in grades 6-12 in a therapeutic setting. Chamberlain has worked...
The ELL department at ARHS has a friendly, new face this year–Rosa Gomes. She will be teaching ELL Composition (levels 1 and 2), The classes right now are ELL Composition (Level 2), ELL Literature...
After Diedre Cuffee-Gray left her six-year position as ARHS’s College and Career Counselor, Lexie Mullins stepped into the role with enthusiasm, ready to form connections with the student body, helping guide them through the...
On a typical morning, new math teacher Xianxiu Xie likes to go for a run or a hike before work. She teaches Topics in Math 1, a foundational math skills class, and Academic Skills....
New math teacher Sam Bill is passionate about Math and loves teaching. “I love everything about math,” he said. Bill grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he attended North Quincy High School. After high...
The ARHS girls’ volleyball team is a force to be reckoned with this season. The team is made up of 14 girls: five seniors, six juniors, two sophomores, and one freshman, and their season...
ARHS girls’ varsity soccer has had a rough start to the season, with a record of 3-7, but players are more motivated than ever to work as a team and see the results of...
With a mix of first-time players, experienced seniors, and even some middle schoolers, the Amherst field hockey team is rooted in connection, communication, and mutual support. The team is an extremely tight-knit community that...
