Limered: bubble tea, fruit smoothies, pocky, and macarons, oh my!
When 2:30 p.m. rolls around on a Tuesday, the small yet cozy bubble tea café we all know and love, Limered, begins to fill with Amherst middle and high schoolers alike. A long line...
Category: Features
Game of Thrones: students dish about gripping plot, violence, and last season
Nearly eight years ago, on April 17, 2011, the season one premiere of Game of Thrones was aired on HBO. Over the last eight years, Game of Thrones, sometimes referred to as GoT, has...
Ms. Dorsey reflects on a year student teaching with science department
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels recently reached 415 parts per million this year for the first time ever in recorded history, according to the magazine Scientific American. Those rising CO2 levels, the subsequent threat of...
ARHS students bring fairy-tale musical to life
This year’s musical was “Tuck Everlasting,” which was performed by the ARHS theater company. Close to 150 students from all over the school were involved in this year’s production. Four shows were held from...
Let it snow: single day off enjoyed by all
On March 4, 2019, the dreams of many ARHS students and faculty came true: they finally got their first snow day. It was a perfect day; the light puffy snow was easy to clean...
Paraeducator love-bombs
Paraeducators are an integral part of the school community. Typically, they are assigned to specific students in need of additional academic or emotional support, but they often move beyond their stated role. There are...
Faculty hair survey: how staff ‘do their dos’ and feel about their tresses
My normal hair routine until recently? To cover my fingers in some hair gel and vigorously mess up my hair. But once I accidentally left the lid off the top of the hair gel...
‘It’s not magic,’ it’s the custodians: the hardworking team that keeps ARHS clean, by day and night
It’s lunch time and you’re sitting across from your friends. You’re joking around and throwing food at each other. You don’t think twice about leaving the mess you just made; in fact, the very...
Pioneer Valley Ballet brings ‘Nutcracker’ to life at Academy of Music
For many people, the holiday season is synonymous with the sweeping score of The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; holiday traditions are incomplete without an evening spent at the ballet, watching snowflakes...
Engineering courses highly enrolled, and teacher would love to offer even more
Engineering classes at ARHS have always been popular. Despite this, budget cuts have kept teacher Nick Harrison from expanding the program and offering more advanced classes. ARHS currently offers mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and...
