Thousands of Amherst residents flock downtown every third Thursday of September for the annual Amherst Block Party This is a special night where the people of Amherst can showcase their community, diversity, and best...

William Chapman, known as Mr. Will, was a beloved figure to many at ARHS. He worked as a hall monitor, founded the ARHS Wrestling Club, and helped start the Boxing Club. When Chapman, 45,...

ARHS grad, multi-sport athlete, and 19-year-old Ian Waite loves sports. Growing up as an athlete, he played basketball, baseball, and cross country; however, as he entered college. he experienced the challenge of stepping away...

On Wednesday, March 13, the Regional School Committee rejected the proposed budget of $34.81 million for the 2025 fiscal year, which called for major cuts between the Amherst-Regional Middle School and High School. According...

A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new Fort River Elementary School took place on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. at the site on 70 South Pleasant Street in Amherst. There were short...

On February 27, 2024, a presentation featuring Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) was hosted in the ARHS library. This presentation was led by the director of the Community Leaders United by Overcoming Hardships...

Every year, through the Lemelson-MIT program’s InvenTeams Grant initiative, schools from around the United States can apply for a $7,500 grant to invent a solution to a real-world problem. In November 2023, ARHS was...

Eric Swanson, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI), recently donated $25,000 to Amherst Regional High School, his alma mater.  Swanson earmarked the donation to the school’s engineering programs, coordinating the...

While the use of restorative justice practices has come under fire in recent months, specifically at ARMS, where RJ was offered as sometimes the only approach to managing escalating reports of transphobic bullying, the...

On November 20, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced its national winners of the 2024 Edmund J. Sullivan Award: ARHS’s student reporters senior Talvin Dhingra, and recent graduates Ian Buchanan, Amara Cheng, Aixa Cruz,...

Since the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas, over 31, 497 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza strip, largely civilians. Those killed by Israeli air and artillery attacks include children, women, health...

The Antisemitism Awareness Project, also known as ASAP, is a club that aims to combat antisemitism and create a safe space, in and outside of our school, to educate others about antisemitism and prevent...

On Sunday, December 3, at 7:00 a.m., thousands of people gathered in Northampton for the 20th Annual Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage in efforts to push for an end to domestic violence and...

Amherst Sunrise, a local hub of a national youth-led organization fighting for the Green New Deal, has advocated to have a solar canopy installed over the Amherst Regional High School parking lot since 2019. ...

ARHS students with an interest in film now have an incredible local support system in an organization called Amherst Media, that offers them access to high-level equipment and internships with experts at its location...

According to the Multicultural Student Achievement Network website, MSAN is “a national coalition of multiracial school districts that have come together to understand and eliminate racial opportunity gaps that persist in their schools.” MSAN...

Over the last few years, ARHS has grown its commitment to engineering, and this year that included hosting a regional forum about engineering pathways and hiring a new staff member in that field. On...

ARHS Athletic Director Victoria Dawson finds joy in her job despite the rigorous work she puts in to keep high school athletics on track. But sometimes, she faces hurdles in that role that dull...

On November 7, Amherst residents elected three brand new Amherst School Committee members: Sarah Marshall, Bridget Hynes, and Deborah Lee Leonard, who join incumbent members Irv Rhodes and Jennifer Shiao. Marshall and Hynes spoke...

On September 27, 2023, ARPS district Director of Communications and Operations Debbie Westmoreland sent a press release saying that “an ongoing internal audit” by Human Resources revealed that the district had not completed criminal...

On Thursday, October 5, 24 ARHS students spent their D period and Flex Block in the library for a Psychology of Violence and Hate Leadership Training sponsored by The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and...

This year, ARHS made a major and helpful schedule change; rather than requiring students to attend “plus periods” at the end of the day with only their academic teachers, they are instead allowed to...

For seniors at ARHS, the block schedule (in which students take only one semester-long class in each subject for full credit) is all they have known in high school.  Students often praise the reduced...

Though Maureen Fleming has been working at ARPS for the last 22 years, this year her job entails something a little different: she is the Mental Health and Behavioral Administrator for the district. Her...

Last May, after allegations of transphobia on the part of counselors, students, and staff at Amherst Regional Middle School were published in The Graphic and were investigated by a lawyer hired by the district,...

This fall, ARHS unfurled a new phone policy aimed at separating students from their phones during classes and keeping them off their phones as much as possible during the school day as a whole. ...

Diego Sharon, formerly the principal at Amherst Regional Middle School, is a new Dean of Students at ARHS, here with the goal of keeping the high school safe and encouraging a positive school culture....

When former Superintendent Michael Morris took a medical leave in May of 2022, and then returned in July, only to resign from his position one month later–stating that he was in “an untenable position”...

When Talib Sadiq moved to a one-year position as the principal of both ARMS and ARHS, taking him away from ARHS much of the time, ARHS added an Interim Assistant Principal to lighten the...

This story was originally published in June of 2023 and was updated in November of 2023. ARHS Principal Talib Sadiq has a new job this year. In addition to being the ARHS principal, a...