Serving the Amherst Regional High School community since 1914.
Many people at ARHS and in Amherst were unhappy with the results the presidential election and with Trump’s executive orders on immigration control. As a result, on Saturday March 4, there was a gathering...
President Donald Trump may want to “build a wall” to keep immigrants out of the U.S. or to allow school districts to roll back the bathroom rights of transgender students, but Superintendent Michael Morris...
On January 21, 2017, the day after President Trump’s inauguration, ARHS students joined millions of people worldwide in sending a message to the new administration and to Congress that their voices would be heard....
According to the high school website, the all-new Writing Center located in room 141 is “a place where students can get focused, one-on-one support with writing assignments from any department.” They can also receive...
Chinese class at ARHS is home to a few select students that have been with their teacher and peers since middle school, leading to a strong community, comfort, and challenge. Their teacher is Yiping...
Working in the Academic Achievement Center at ARHS, new staff member Tyrone Bowie Jr. aims to help students with their academics and keep them on track. Mr. Bowie was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, but...
“Never think you’ve figured it all out. Always be open to continuing [your journey],” said new Education Team Leader Dan Anderson, 53, who was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. Mr. Anderson’s important position has...
“Experience as much of the world as you can with an open mind and learn as much as you can,” advises Kelly Koomler, who is new to the Pathways to Independence Program at ARHS....
Looking up into the rearview mirror and seeing the red and blue lights is a position nobody wants to be in. Getting into an accident, possibly getting injured, or injuring someone else, is arguably...
There are many books written about LGBTQ issues in education, but how many have a leading chapter about the LGBTQ Literature class taught by English teachers Sara Barber-Just and Kristen Iverson? Bard College professor...
On September 8, 2016, water tests were run at 58 faucets and bubblers at the high school. Upon testing the samples without flushing them out, four bubblers and three sinks had high amounts of...
On August 15, the Amherst community suffered the loss of a beloved friend and teammate, then-sophomore Charles Davis Read, who tragically passed away in his sleep. Read was first honored on Friday, August 19,...
The town of Amherst has been under a voluntary water ban since July 25, 2016 and it became mandatory on August 19, 2016. A lack of rain caused the reservoirs that Amherst draws from...
In connection with the Amherst Poetry Festival on Friday, September 16, three sophomore English classes at ARHS participated in poetry workshops sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum. Brooke Steinhauser, the educational coordinator at the...
Due to students taking more academic classes at once in the new schedule, Principal Mark Jackson introduced a homework policy; it suggests that individual classes keep regular homework assignments to a 30 minute timeframe,...
ARHS students often complain about having to get purple passes signed by two teachers to do schoolwork during lunch. The rule was put into effect midway through last year. Some students believe that they...
Spirit Week is a student favorite each year, with competition between classes driving up participation and excitement. “Spirit Week is fun. I like competing,” senior Andreas Gilpin-Falk said. For junior Margaret O’Connell, the entire...
ARHS is currently immersed in a new semester schedule, touted by Principal Mark Jackson as offering educational benefits and as a solution to financial constraints. A typical schedule for students includes a total of...
Members of the undefeated girls’ varsity volleyball team wove a passion for justice into their sport before taking down Minnechaug High School 3-1 at an away game on Friday, October 7. Before the game,...
The famous “Senior Skip Day” has turned into a little more than just a day. In the past, skipping was seen as “sketchy,” or an act performed by low-achieving students. However, it has become...
Kavern Lewis stands in the Academic Achievement Center at ARHS, wearing a black and white checkered shirt, helping students with their homework. He looks like an ordinary substitute teacher, maybe a graduate student doing...
In a country where forty percent of students are suffering from a variety of mental health disorders, eight percent of which are severe, one may think that there would be accessible mental health resources...
Summer brings warmth and sunshine and most importantly, freedom from the confines of school. Summer is an excellent time to take a break from the busy, fast-paced lifestyle we tend to live during the...
“I’m a government and civics teacher; I’m going to get so many lesson plans out of this,” said ARHS Social Studies teacher Thomas Fricke about being elected to the Amherst Charter Commission in March....
The classroom of English teacher Danae Marr looks like any other room in the building, with the same tiled floors, white walls, metal chairs, and institutional lighting. To combat the stress and boredom evoked...
Twenty eager teachers from the Instructional Leadership Institute for Pakistani Educators (ILPE) program visited ARHS on Friday, May 27, the kick-off to five weeks in Amherst. The program is an annual exchange between ARHS...
As I bike into the center of Amherst on May 20, I plan to make an unusual pit stop. This morning is the last day of the Bay State Bike Week, an annual campaign...
In October of 2015, a group of students from Amherst Regional Middle School first got the idea to rally to change Columbus Day to “Indigenous Peoples Day.” The 22 students included Kelly Brown, Aarti...
In addition to placing first in a national Chinese competition and winning awards at Classics Day for Latin, Alexander “Sasha” Yakub is recognized as one of the most advanced young musicians in the country....
Launched in 2006, the ARHS Community Service Club hosts an annual Red Cross Blood Drive that has gained tremendous popularity and broken records this year. In April, a total of 74 students and 10...
