Category: News

All Amherst schools were audited by Julia Garofalo and Stéphane Pierre-Louis of Kessler McGuinness & Associates (KMA) in December of 2018 to find out whether they are truly accessible to people with disabilities. The...

All those hours of practicing sometimes do pay off. ARHS students Isabelle Bouvier, Amanda Dee, Celia Douville Beaudoin, Angela Oldham Barca, and Sarah VanHorn were honored on March 9 at the All-State Music Festival,...

Career Day, an annual event held in ARHS advisories since 2016, took place this year on Thursday February 28. Tenth and eleventh graders attended the sessions. On this special day, parents and community members...

When Amanda Lewis, who runs the ARHS Writing Center, and Ella Stocker, school librarian, noticed that students frequently come to them with the same sorts of questions, they decided to create a series of...

If you asked any student at ARHS if they are stressed, almost everyone would say that some kind of pressure has weighed down on them in the last few months, be it academic or...

Interim Principal Miki Lee Gromacki makes being the leader of a school look easy, but do you really know what it takes to be a principal? Becoming a principal takes a lot of hard...

Over the summer, Summit Academy relocated from its South Amherst location to a corner of ARHS that formerly housed English classes, a Culinary Arts program, and a preschool. Although we now share a building,...

The legalization of marijuana is among of the great political debates of the 21st century. In the 1970s, authorities were more concerned about illegal possession of marijuana than that of cocaine. The war on...

This year’s French Dinner, hosted by the ARHS French Club and Madame Cisse’s classes, was one of the best attended ever. According to Jamie Simonson, the club’s president, planning for the event started in...

After Principal Mark Jackson’s unexpected departure in October of this year, former Dean Mary Custard jumped into the role of Interim Assistant Principal so that Miki Gromacki could take on the school principalship. In...