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Boys’ Ultimate had a great season this year, winning all their regular games except one, placing fourth and second in two big Massachusetts tournaments, and capturing the State championship for the 26th year in...
Durante los últimos dos años, los estudiantes, padres y miembros del personal de la Escuela Intermedia Regional de Amherst (ARMS) expresaron su preocupación a los líderes del distrito sobre el consejero de ajuste Héctor...
Over the last two years, Amherst Regional Middle School students, parents, and staff members voiced concerns to district leadership about adjustment counselor Hector Santos and current eighth-grade guidance counselor Delinda Dykes, noting that the...
Generation Ratify Amherst is the local chapter of a national, intersectional, youth-led movement fighting for the enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution and widespread gender equity. Generation Ratify Amherst launched a...
This story was originally published on December 21, 2022 and was updated to include new information and new images on March 14, 2023. ARPS faculty and staff have been negotiating for what they say...
Beloved Wildwood Elementary principal, Nick Yaffe, will be retiring from his more than 30-year career in education at the end of this year. Yaffe explained this difficult decision in a recent video announcement sent...
On Sunday, January 29, Asian Americans and many others from across Amherst packed into the ARMS cafeteria for the town’s first-ever in person Lunar New Year/Spring Festival celebration, put on by the Human Rights...
Seventeen-year-old senior Selma Keochakian is doing something most seniors have not: getting her “wings.” Over the last two years, she has taken flight lessons, studied, taken exams, and is now just moments away from...
How did ARHS grad (‘09) Martins Licis, named the World’s Strongest Man in 2019, become the strongman he is today? Licis was born on September 28, 1990, in Riga, Latvia but found his way...
K’s Nutrition, an exciting new addition to Amherst’s cafes, is owned and run by Bryant Keeney with the help of his family. The shop is best known for its delectable protein milkshakes, juice refreshers,...
What is joy? How do we find it? Joy is a mysterious concept, absent in some yet plentiful in others. But is that the end? If people aren’t joyful now, can they ever be? ...
Suzy sits at her desk, looking out the window, watching the birds flying high in the sky, she imagines herself soaring through the window and joining them up above to feel the cold air...
Donald Davis is the Head Custodian at ARHS, where he has worked for three decades. In addition to managing his custodial staff, he himself works tirelessly to keep ARHS clean and up and running....
Western Mass native Weston Halkyard, age 32, is a successful architect at Hutker Architects in Martha’s Vineyard. He is also an identical twin, and both brothers attended the same university–Syracuse, where they majored in...
Matthew and James Owen are identical twin seniors at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition to being students, they also participate in multiple seasons of sports including soccer, alpine skiing, and...
I reached out to Cameron Gray-Lee, one of the most interesting and well-rounded seniors I know, for an interview about his day-to-day life. Cameron’s light-hearted nature and kindness come to the forefront of any...
I loved the blockbuster film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The plot focuses on a Chinese-American couple, Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), who are running the family laundromat...
On March 4, the disability community lost Judy Heumann often described as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement.” During the creation of the new Disability Justice Literature course, I examined a wide variety...
I recently had the pleasure of being able to sit down with Billy McBride, a YMCA Youth of the Year winner at age 17 (he had a car and an apartment by then); NFL...
ARHS’s junior class president Neil Patrick Cunniffe runs a sports photography business/brand under the name NPC Flics. Since 2020, Cunniffe has photographed the athletes and crowds at ARHS sports games. Cunniffe is also an...
Audrey Bowen is a senior at ARHS, who, like many students, faces an injury that sets her back as an athlete. I spoke with her to learn about her injury, how she recovered from...
Sara Baxter, ARHS class of 2022, is a freshman at Stony Brook University in Suffolk County, NY where she is studying civil engineering and swimming at the Division I level, coached by Mark Anderson...
Louis Douville Beaudoin is an 18 year old ultimate Frisbee player from Amherst Massachusetts who made the US ultimate team; in exciting news, that group went on to win the World Ultimate Championship. He...
Justin Webb is ARHS’s Athletic Trainer. Webb deals with hundreds of teen athletes per sports season keeping us all safe and healthy. His motto is “the noblest art is that of making others happy.”...
UPDATE: Since the publishing of this article, bathrooms have been re-opened. Bathrooms are only locked, if at all, for short periods and to address student vandalism or vaping. Principal Talib Sadiq sent out an...
In November of 2022, over the course of three weeks, ARHS faculty and staff mentioned enough serious safety concerns to history teacher and union member James Elliott that he decided to type up a...
One thing that everyone can agree on is that there is an urgent need to replace the 23-year-old track and field at ARHS. The ARHS track and field facilities have been of concern and...
On September 13, the Amherst community lost a beloved friend, Ultimate player, runner, skier, environmentalist, outdoor enthusiast, engaged student, and more in Anna Burns. Burns went into cardiac arrest at the end of a...
Though masking during the pandemic helped many of us avoid not just COVID-19 but also the flu and the common cold, all three (and more!) are back with a vengeance, now that the vast...
When students return from break in January, they will not be going to their regular advisories on Fridays. Instead, due to complaints from faculty and students about the advisory period being ineffective, students will...
