People celebrate their heritage on Puerto Rico Day
This year’s Puerto Rico Day was held on Monday September 23 instead of past year’s date November 19; the September date linked up with the 151 year anniversary of Grito de Lares, the revolt...
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Poet Jay Ritchie: teaching poetry the way he wishes it were taught to him
From September 19-22, 2019, local poet Jay Ritchie ran poetry workshops in many sophomore English classes at ARHS, in conjunction with the Emily Dickinson Museum, which coordinated the event. For the past six years,...
Chef Jamil cooking up goodness, innovation in cafeteria
The new Executive Chef at Amherst College, Jamil Asad-Ubinas, has plans to help ARHS and other public schools in the area. He hopes to offer students more choices than they are accustomed to seeing...
Ban The Box pledge helps the formerly incarcerated
Contracting with prisons is easy when inmates are behind bars, but are the same institutions willing to employ ex-prisoners upon their release? Many believe that employers need to begin to shift their thinking on...
Reupholstering behind bars: Massachusetts prisoners repair auditorium chairs at ARHS, ARMS
On March 21, the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District and Massachusetts Correctional Industries (MassCor) inked a contract that set up prisoners at MCI-Norfolk to reupholster the 1,105 badly worn auditorium seats at Amherst Regional High...
Welcome, incoming Principal Gene Jones!
Incoming ARHS Principal Gene Jones has “always enjoyed working with kids.” Mr. Jones was born and raised in Virginia, in a “multi-generational house.” His close-knit family emphasized supporting each other. “My great grandmother, my...
Pedro Mendez, restoring justice
ARHS has a new face attached to its restorative justice program, Pedro Mendez, whom you might have seen greeting students at the door in the morning, along with Stephen Bechtold. Mr. Mendez was hired...
As measles outbreak scares nation, vaccines more important than ever
According to an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, by Greta Jochem, the 764 confirmed measles cases this year makes it the largest outbreak nationally since 1994. Measles is a highly contagious, infectious viral...
Combating anti-Semitism with education
Anti-Semitism, defined as “hostility or prejudice toward Jews,” is more visible than ever, from white nationalist chants of “Jews will not replace us” at a deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in...
‘Next Gen’ MCAS testing rollout a success
We have turned the corner of MCAS season. All sophomores took the “Next-Generation” MCAS testing, on Chromebooks, starting with the English Language Arts (ELA) portion, on March 26 and 28. This was the first...
