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On May 13, when members of the Amherst Pelham Education Association (APEA)—the union representing teachers, paraeducators, and clerical staff—announced an all-district no-confidence vote in Superintendent Michael Morris and Assistant Superintendent of Diversity, Equity, and...
Thirteen-year-old Amhest Regional Middle schooler Inanna Balkin didn’t mean to start an anti-sexual harassment club. But when she was sitting in seventh-grade science class, learning about how atoms never actually touch each other, suddenly,...
Activism can be viewed and expressed through many different lenses and mediums. But art has been shown to be one of the more diverse and flexible ways to push for social change, sometimes simply...
The Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families exhibit lined the halls of Amherst Regional High School until June 1, and made its way to Amherst Regional Middle School on Friday,...
On May 6, during Northampton’s Pride weekend, internationally renowned Indian transgender performance artist, writer, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon gave a show in Florence, Mass. at the Bombyx Center for Equity as a fundraiser for...
When science teacher Annie Paradis, art teachers Elena Betke-Brunswick and Kristen Ripley, and guidance department head Lisa Zephyr heard about transphobia and anti-LGBTQ bullying that went unchecked at ARMS, negatively affecting queer students, they...
On May 3, at 7 p.m. a group of about 20 shuffled into a room located in the New Africa House on the UMass campus for a reading by queer Pakistani poet Bushra Rehman,...
A years-long negotation between the Amherst-Pelham Educators Association (teacher and staff union) and the Amherst School Committee is inching closer to an agreement. The School Committee’s most recent proposed offer is a 3% raise...
The ARHS senior prom is an annual event that takes place in May or June, but it does not happen without a lot of planning and hard work from the senior class advisor Wilnelia...
Durante los últimos dos años, los estudiantes, padres y miembros del personal de la Escuela Intermedia Regional de Amherst (ARMS) expresaron su preocupación a los líderes del distrito sobre el consejero de ajuste Héctor...
Over the last two years, Amherst Regional Middle School students, parents, and staff members voiced concerns to district leadership about adjustment counselor Hector Santos and current eighth-grade guidance counselor Delinda Dykes, noting that the...
This story was originally published on December 21, 2022 and was updated to include new information and new images on March 14, 2023. ARPS faculty and staff have been negotiating for what they say...
Beloved Wildwood Elementary principal, Nick Yaffe, will be retiring from his more than 30-year career in education at the end of this year. Yaffe explained this difficult decision in a recent video announcement sent...
On Sunday, January 29, Asian Americans and many others from across Amherst packed into the ARMS cafeteria for the town’s first-ever in person Lunar New Year/Spring Festival celebration, put on by the Human Rights...
In November of 2022, over the course of three weeks, ARHS faculty and staff mentioned enough serious safety concerns to history teacher and union member James Elliott that he decided to type up a...
One thing that everyone can agree on is that there is an urgent need to replace the 23-year-old track and field at ARHS. The ARHS track and field facilities have been of concern and...
On September 13, the Amherst community lost a beloved friend, Ultimate player, runner, skier, environmentalist, outdoor enthusiast, engaged student, and more in Anna Burns. Burns went into cardiac arrest at the end of a...
When students return from break in January, they will not be going to their regular advisories on Fridays. Instead, due to complaints from faculty and students about the advisory period being ineffective, students will...
Senior year is filled with numerous hallmark experiences, from applying to college to planning for prom and graduation. However, none of these events are possible without the senior student council working behind the scenes....
Though the current junior class did the majority of their ninth-grade schooling online, they all returned to in-person classes as a group in sophomore year. This coming together allowed them to get to know...
On the sunny morning of May 12, teachers, paraeducators, and staff at ARHS and Summit Academy dressed in their union red colors and gathered to stage a “walk-in” and a chalk-up for fair pay....
Alla Azrilyan came to ARHS in 2019, as a member of the ELL department. She spoke with a member of The Graphic staff about the war in Ukraine, her life as a teacher, and...
When Russia violently invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, very few predicted how rapidly the crisis would escalate, leading to over 7 million people being displaced or fleeing the country. Montague resident Nadya Tkachenko...
On March 21, 2022, a fight broke out at ARHS and one student landed in the hospital. A letter Principal Talib Sadiq sent home to parents was republished in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, in...
This year’s musical, Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, featured many lively ensemble numbers in which nearly the entire cast was on stage, singing and dancing together while dressed in beautifully colored hippie clothing....
Nyasia Jordan is one of the newest employees at ARHS. Her official position is campus monitor, and she sits outside the atrium bathroom signing people in and out or asks students for a pass...
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched a violent attack on Ukraine, more than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country, with a further 6.5 million displaced from their homes but unable to escape the...
On February 9, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that he would lift the school mask mandate, effective February 28. Massachusetts commissioner of education Jeffrey Riley said, “While masking is no longer a statewide requirement,...
Next fall, ARHS will feature a new quarter-long Disability Justice English course, created by English teacher and department head Sara Barber-Just and tested out in an 18 week ALPS with 11th grade student Walter...
The Sene-Gambian Scholars Club trip to Senegal and The Gambia this February was a long time coming, since it had been postponed many times during the pandemic, and the club members and their advisors...
