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When Russia violently invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, very few predicted how rapidly the crisis would escalate, leading to over 7 million people being displaced or fleeing the country. Montague resident Nadya Tkachenko...
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched a violent attack on Ukraine, more than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country, with a further 6.5 million displaced from their homes but unable to escape the...
On February 9, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that he would lift the school mask mandate, effective February 28. Massachusetts commissioner of education Jeffrey Riley said, “While masking is no longer a statewide requirement,...
Next fall, ARHS will feature a new quarter-long Disability Justice English course, created by English teacher and department head Sara Barber-Just and tested out in an 18 week ALPS with 11th grade student Walter...
The Sene-Gambian Scholars Club trip to Senegal and The Gambia this February was a long time coming, since it had been postponed many times during the pandemic, and the club members and their advisors...
After over ten years of discussions about replacing the track at ARHS, the Amherst School Committee voted to finally approve it, but pushed off funding the project until at least January 15, 2023, while...
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation of Western Massachusetts awards over 100 Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Awards each year, and among this year’s winners are science teacher Sara Dorsey, English teacher Kate Kuhn, and Chinese...
Gas prices have been on the rise for the last few months, the spike in energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has stirred fears about oil and natural gas availability, according...
This winter, senior Rebekah Hong, got some really good news: she won a coveted $20,000 Coca-Cola scholarship, an achievement-based award given to graduating high school seniors. She competed with 68,000 seniors from across the...
For their final project in a senior Journalistic Writing class at ARHS, students decided to reach out to people to hear about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their goals were simple: not only...
While adults often look back on their high school and recall major historical moments that coincided with their education, who knew our moment would be a years-long, front seat to a global pandemic that...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests nationwide, many educators and activists said that schools could not go back to “business as usual,” and instead would have to rethink everything,...
On October 26, at 9:30 a.m., dozens of Amherst Regional High School students were called from their classes to take COVID tests. These students had signed up to participate in a pooled testing program...
With the new block schedule, students only carry each academic class for one semester at a time, rather than a whole year. One benefit of this is increased space for quarter-long elective offerings, with...
MCAS is a graduation requirement at every public school in Massachusetts, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed that for the senior class, who were fully excused from MCAS by the Department of Secondary and Elementary...
Juniors and seniors at ARHS remember the days when we woke up at the crack of dawn and started our school days at 7:45 a.m. and wrapped them by 2:20 p.m. Some of us...
It’s 8:45 a.m. and students are filing in the main doors at ARHS. But some stop traffic when they see an impossibly cute and uplifting sight: Winston, the Amherst Police Department’s comfort dog. On...
During the seemingly endless year-long stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many worked or attended school from home, wore masks, and reduced contact with family and friends, many started to feel reopening was...
Following the emergence of COVID-19 last March, ARHS was closed to students for over a year. But this spring, as COVID-19 restrictions began to lift, life started to return to normal, and ARHS finally...
On Saturday, March 27, the Amherst Common bustled with activity as people gathered, holding signs of support for the Asian community with slogans like “Hate is a Virus,” “Stop Asian Hate,” and “USA For...
On Friday, Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Superintendent Michael Morris sent out an all-school email blast with some great news: Talib Sadiq, who held the Interim Principal position at ARHS this year, got the permanent...
For me, online school has been much more challenging than in-person learning, due to the reduction in time spent with teachers and peers face to face and the loss of the social interactions school...
Though Massachusetts is inching toward the final phase of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan slated to make shots available to all state residents on April 19, millions have already been vaccinated in phases 1...
This year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is full steam ahead in its plan to administer the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, despite growing resistance by educators, families, students,...
Last December, senior Petua Mukimba received some amazing news. She had won a highly coveted full four-year scholarship to Columbia University through QuestBridge’s National College Match. QuestBridge is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping...
One year before the pandemic and a renewed national cry for racial justice, the ARHS English department had already embarked on a journey to center nearly all department time on anti-racist work. They read...
One thing is really different about college admissions this year. According to ivywise.com, 72% “of colleges and universities adopted test-optional policies this year, and now some schools that implemented a one-year test-optional policy are...
On Friday, June 13, on the fountain steps of Sweetser Park, ARHS grad Tabor Bowman, 18, spoke to a gathered crowd of youth protesters. He read a poem that he had written just days...
In the week leading up to Amherst High School’s three week closure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Amherst College, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke all announced that they’d be shutting down their respective...
Not only did the March 3 Super Tuesday election mark a critical point in the Democratic primaries, but also the first opportunity for some ARHS students to vote. Seniors old enough to voice their...
