Midnight cookie cravings, fulfilled!

It’s 12:30 a.m. on a Saturday. You and your friends are craving something sugary, but have no energy to bake and few places are still open. Suddenly, Insomnia Cookies pops into your head. What...

Bear sightings in the area

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...

Bringing love to the AAC

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...

Athletic Director Victoria Stewart

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,...

Deidre Cuffee-Gray brings a new vision

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...

Chemistry: cooler as you go

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.” ...

Azrilyan honored to teach here

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...

Lopez bringing youth together

There’s a new ELL teacher at ARHS this year, Ms. Stephani Lopez.  “I love being an ELL teacher at ARHS because the students in my classes come from so many different countries,” said Lopez. ...

Welcome, Mr. Grandin!

Philip Grandin, also known as Mr. Grandin to his students, is a new math teacher  at ARHS. He teaches Algebra to mostly ninth and tenth graders and geometry to a mix of 9-11 graders....

Welcome, Magistra Cefalo!

Patricia Cefalo is the newest Latin teacher here at ARHS. Her students call her Magistra, which is the Latin word for “teacher.”   Cefalo began studying Latin in high school, then added Ancient Greek to...

Kristie Morrison: surrounded by books

Kristie Morrison never thought she would be back at her own high school after graduating in 2015.  As the new ARHS library paraprofessional, though, that’s exactly where is, and she describes this unlikely return...

Mr. Blatner ready to paddle on

After 15 years of teaching at ARHS, William Blatner, math teacher, former civil engineer, and avid whitewater paddler, is retiring at the end of the year. Mr. Blatner grew up in western New York....