Category: Features

There’s a new face in guidance! After 23 years of hard work, we said goodbye to Connie Capelli, our now retired guidance secretary. Lucky for us, Crystal Garrity was brave enough to take on...

Alyssa Ranker was hired as the new lead teacher in the Academic Achievement Center at ARHS, after Sarah Bourbeau, who ran the center last year, assumed a full-time social studies position. Ms. Ranker was...

“The best way to describe my job in the main office is busy. There’s always people coming in and out, and lots of things to do,” said Jammie Bruni, one of the two new...

Former Middle school counselor Talib Sadiq is one of our newest additions to our school, filling the position of Assistant Principal. Born and raised in Amherst, Mr. Sadiq worked at the middle school for...

New math teacher Sean Duram, is happy to be living and teaching in the Pioneer Valley. He grew up in the suburbs of Beverly, Mass. and attended Beverly High School. After that, he moved...

It looks like Latin isn’t dead after all. Kendall Farkas is a newly hired Latin teacher at ARHS and the only Latin teacher at ARMS. A recent UMass graduate, Ms. Farkas is ready to...

Several new staff members have come to ARHS to work in the Pathways to Independence Program (PIP), for students with developmental disabilities, located in room 167. The program aims to enrich students’ lives, provide...

Imagine  10 year old Rudi Scherff: mixing chemicals, creating reactions, and dreaming of the time when he becomes a mad scientist. Though he isn’t a mad scientist, Mr. Scherff is busy pursuing the career...

Blanca Zelaya is a new math, special education, and science co-teacher at ARHS who came aboard at the beginning of this academic year. Before arriving at ARHS, Ms. Zelaya worked for 20 years at...

College is a big goal for most people my age, and working hard to achieve in high school is a very real aspect to that journey. The problem is that I’m not always driven...