Serving the Amherst Regional High School community since 1914.
About 19.9 million US students are currently attending a college or university according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of those students 30% are the first in their family to pursue a degree,...
For months, boys at ARHS have lodged complaints about the state of their bathrooms. First, vaping (or e-cigarette use) in boys’ bathrooms is common, meaning students often enter a restroom to find a crowd...
When Atkins Farms decided to expand into North Amherst in late 2015, it was seen as a local necessity for surrounding communities who previously had to travel unnecessary distances for food and necessities. Before...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ARHS French teacher Oumy Cisse and choral director Todd Fruth recently learned they had won the Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation of Western Massachusetts. According to...
Mental wellness is a topic that’s worthy of most teenagers’ attention. On Wednesday March 13, students in grades 9-12 were lucky enough to attend two assemblies that featured a panel of mental health professionals...
The Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee approved two new and exciting Advanced Placement (AP) classes that will be offered beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. The first new course, AP World History, will be taught...
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...
