Category: Features

This year’s ARHS spring musical, “Spring Awakening,” is sure to excite, delight, and challenge audiences.  It is an “angsty rock musical adaption of the seminal play about the trials and tribulations of growing up”...

In the spring of 2019, ARHS senior Zora Dallmann was hiking in the woods near her house with her cousin when she came across a baby bear. Dallmann’s cousin is from Arizona so she...

On October 1, a rainy Tuesday, while sitting in English class, a group of kindergarteners burst into song. However, they were all singing in Spanish, with smiles on their faces.  Fort River Elementary School...

ARHS grad Phila Son decided to come back to the high school–to work. He was hired this summer as one of the school’s new adjustment counselors. “I decided I wanted to be a school...

Chantelle Brigham-McMillan, new to ARHS last year, is an always-friendly face in the Academic Achievement Center.  Brigham-McMillan, who lives in Northfield and drives an hour to work every day, is an Americorps/Dial Self employee...

This summer, Rich Ferro resigned as the ARHS and ARMS athletic director, a position he’d held since 2012, and took on his former role as a science teacher at ARMS. Luckily, ARHS, UMass Amherst,...

Myra Ross left big shoes to fill when she retired after 20 years of college counseling, but ARHS lucked out with a vibrant, experienced, and multi-talented new college and career advisor, Deidre Cuffee-Gray.  Cuffee-Gray...

Evan Mahnken is enjoying his new home in Amherst. “I like it out here, I really do,” said Mahnken. “I like the idea of living where my commute to work could be ten minutes.” ...

“My students inspire me every day,” said Suzanne Bowes, a new math teacher at ARHS.“I always welcome and try to get feedback from my students, and I use that to reflect on how I...

Between finding her Intentional Living community in Shutesbury, being close to her friends and family in Boston and New York City, and landing her brand new ELL teaching job at ARHS, Alla Azrilyan gushed...