Category: Features

Here at ARHS, students consistently overlook the importance of applying to local scholarships. Seventeen days before the scholarship deadline this spring, “only two students [had] done them so far,” said Connie Cappelli, Guidance Secretary...

Most high school students feel stressed at some point each day, and often find their school work challenging.  Now, just imagine having an identified learning disability, too. Most learning disabilities are “invisible” and you...

Hurricane Maria made contact with Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. Maria is thought to have been the most devastating recorded natural disaster to hit the island, with wind speeds up to 175 mph...

Over the course of the 12 weeks that college classes were in session during the fall 2017 semester, one group of college-going ARHS students calculated that they spent a total of over $50 on...

On Tuesday, March 27, Amherst residents voted 59 to 41 percent to replace Town Meeting with a new form of government. In August 2015, a group of Amherst citizens collected 3,500 signatures on a...

Most years, the ARHS music department takes a day trip to New York City to see a Broadway show. This year, however, students travelled to Washington D.C. for four days of bonding, music education,...

Car mechanics are a cornerstone of society, whether most people realize it or not. They affect over 1 billion people around the world and keep all of these people moving through their daily lives....

Technology: How could we live without it? Furthermore, how could we teach without it? Over past the two decades, technology has gradually become an essential aspect of education. In 1996, when grades were still...

In the center of Northampton, just a ways off of Main Street, stands Raven Used Books, a literary establishment that has made this bustling area of Western Mass its home for over 20 years....

Many American teenagers spend after-school time and evenings playing sports, participating clubs and extracurricular activities, or working jobs for a little extra cash. But some have less flexibility; they are needed at home to...