Category: News

Working in the Academic Achievement Center at ARHS, new staff member Tyrone Bowie Jr. aims to help students with their academics and keep them on track. Mr. Bowie was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, but...

“Never think you’ve figured it all out. Always be open to continuing [your journey],” said new Education Team Leader Dan Anderson, 53, who was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. Mr. Anderson’s important position has...

“Experience as much of the world as you can with an open mind and learn as much as you can,” advises Kelly Koomler, who is new to the Pathways to Independence Program at ARHS....

Looking up into the rearview mirror and seeing the red and blue lights is a position nobody wants to be in. Getting into an accident, possibly getting injured, or injuring someone else, is arguably...

There are many books written about LGBTQ issues in education, but how many have a leading chapter about the LGBTQ Literature class taught by English teachers Sara Barber-Just and Kristen Iverson? Bard College professor...

On September 8, 2016, water tests were run at 58 faucets and bubblers at the high school.  Upon testing the samples without flushing them out, four bubblers and three sinks had high amounts of...

On August 15, the Amherst community suffered the loss of a beloved friend and teammate, then-sophomore Charles Davis Read, who tragically passed away in his sleep. Read was first honored on Friday, August 19,...

The town of Amherst has been under a voluntary water ban since July 25, 2016 and it became mandatory on August 19, 2016. A lack of rain caused the reservoirs that Amherst draws from...

In connection with the Amherst Poetry Festival on Friday, September 16, three sophomore English classes at ARHS participated in poetry workshops sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum. Brooke Steinhauser, the educational coordinator at the...

Due to students taking more academic classes at once in the new schedule, Principal Mark Jackson introduced a homework policy; it suggests that individual classes keep regular homework assignments to a 30 minute timeframe,...