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Reports erupted January 19, 2015 accusing New England Patriot’s Tom Brady of deflating footballs during the AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Fast forward a year and a half later and the NFL...
Chipotle enthusiasts are unhappy with their beloved restaurant’s new initiative to regain the public’s trust in their food after a widespread E. coli outbreak. According to a December 21 announcement from the Center for...
On Saturday, March 5th UMass threw its annual Blarney Blowout. The Blarney Blowout is a Saint Patrick’s Day celebration where UMass students in the area drink throughout the day. Jessica Fox, a senior at...
When my sister Nicole left for Wesleyan University two years ago, my first reaction was excitement for her and all the great things she would experience at college. However, soon afterward, I realized I...
On Febuary 9, 2016, ARHS’s student newspaper, The Graphic, left the dark ages and entered the 21st century. Since 1914, the paper has been exclusively issued in print. One hundred and two years later,...
Every morning at ARHS, students and faculty pour through the front doors and into the hallways, many of them with a beverage in their hands,whether it be in a mason jar, travel mug, Dunkin’...
Sophomore Olive Osten had been thinking about starting a platform for young people to share their thoughts on feminist issues for a while. She discussed the idea of a blog with a few ARHS...
When we meet someone new, our first impression is often about looks; only later do things such as personality, brains, and character start to take on meaning. Why is it that prettiness or attractiveness...
Getting to work in the morning can be hard enough for people who clock in at 9 a.m. But for students and teachers who need to be at ARHS by 7 or 7:30 a.m,...
For students at ARHS who identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming, or gender-queer, navigating the often binary world of gender can be challenging. I spoke with a handful of these students about what their experiences were...
Pat Keenan and Jane Fitzgerald are two Irish women running the ARHS main office, with a goal of making every person who passes their way smile and laugh a little. Ms. Keenan’s favorite thing...
The U.S. is on fire with political fervor, as the country marches closer and closer to November’s U.S. presidential contest. Though politics are often a subject left to those 18 and older who can...
Approximately one year ago, the ARHS library received a very special and surprising letter from a court in Douglas County, Kansas. The letter reported that Ann Louise Hyde left 2% of her estate for...
Jamie Staples, a senior at Amherst Regional High School, has managed to score 1,000 points in all of her high school basketball career. Staples is the first girl to reach this accomplishment since Alyssa...
Latin club is a place where interested, Latin students of all grades continue their classics studies after school. Latin student Sean Smith is the faculty advisor of the club, which he brought from the...
Every Tuesday after school in room 177, about 20 students come together to discuss current global and personal gender issues. The Women’s Rights Club, run by ARHS seniors Izzi Tripp and Bethany Vickery and...
The Outing Club is gearing up for their winter events and trips led by Jess Gerber Dolan, Sophie Ackerman, and Joe Woynar. To be a part of the Outing Club, you do not need...
Jericho Sylla and Owen Wright, ARHS seniors and members of this year’s Super Seven selection went into the season with high aspirations for the boy’s indoor track team, and they nabbed their fifth straight...
There have been plenty of changes for ARHS’s swimming and diving team this year, including new swimmers, no morning practices, different practice time, and a new coach, Sean Clark. Coach Clark has a way...
After losing many influential seniors from last year, Amherst boys’ ice hockey is off to a hot start this season. The Hurricanes started the year with a crucial win over Chicopee Comp, the same...
Although Amherst Regional High School is home to an elite basketball program, it is the rec league that garners most of the attention throughout the early winter months. Marc Keenan is the self-proclaimed commissioner...
According to the girls’ varsity basketball team captain Jamie Staples, “this will be one great season!” She said she was excited by the opportunity for her team “to show off what they are made...
This has been the best year in ARHS boys basketball history since the 2003 state championship, with 20 wins and 3 losses. This year’s squad had a lot of weight on its shoulders and,...
The girls’ indoor track team are the two-time defending Western Mass champions. This year they are hoping to keep the streak going. “We want to hold on to our title,” said Eva Feyre-Febonio. The...
Hungry students stare at the clock during the enterity of C period, waiting for lunch to begin. They are starved and tired. Differential and integral calculus does not seem as relevant as eating food....
David Jean, the culinary arts teacher at ARHS, has been making lunches for school staff and teachers for nine years now. The lunches are offered every month or so by Mr. Jean’s C period...
Though ARHS has always used advisory time to talk about important issues and bring the student body together as one, many advisories have taken the next step and have begun organizing community service projects....
New to the schools’ club count this year is Mental Illness Awareness Club. The group meets in room 173 every Monday (except the first Monday of each month) at 3 p.m. with advisor Kathy...
The brand new Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released on December 18, 2015, has caused fans across the nation to go wild. ARHS students were among the crazed. Jack...
