Category: News

At 11:03 p.m. on Friday, November 1, firefighters received a 911 call from an Amherst resident who saw smoke coming out of Hampshire Athletic Club, located at 90 Gatehouse Road in Amherst.  Nine firefighters...

Almost 80 percent of Americans in a Washington Post poll said they think that climate change is a real issue that must be dealt with.  And climate change is ranked as one of the...

New principal Gene Jones said that his first two months at the helm have been “very smooth” and that he’s excited about what the remainder of his first year will bring. “I am honored....

The week of September 23 to 28 was a flame of a Spirit Week for a usually much quieter ARHS.  Students from every class arrived to school decked out in their school spirit, but...

The ever controversial Integrated Math Program (IMP) curriculum is gone from ARHS classrooms.  It is replaced by College Preparatory Mathematics (CPM). The new curriculum is guided by similar principles as IMP but has many...

On Friday, September 20, starting in Australia and spreading from the Pacific islands all the way across Europe, and then to 800 U.S. cities, young people and their allies kicked off a Global Climate...

The Amherst Town Council and school system have an impending choice to make that will determine how much closer our district can come to the full implementation of electric school buses in its fleet. ...

As the A-period bell rings, the Hurricane Joe coffee cart is preparing for motion.  In room 167, home to the Pathways to Independence program for students with developmental disabilities, the bean grinding and brewing...

On October 3, 2019, before 6 p.m., the doors of ARHS opened wide to an array of parents eager to experience an abbreviated version of a “day in the life” of their children at...

The smell of different restaurants and the sound of dance music combined to fill the air above East Pleasant Street in downtown Amherst. People of all ages walked around, little kids most entranced by...