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AMHERST — Hampshire College’s ability to handle the required teach-out of students who remain on campus this summer and fall, ensuring they will complete their degrees, could be impacted by a lack of financial resources to do this work, President Jennifer Chrisler wrote in a letter to the campus Saturday. In the letter, Chrisler told […]

AMHERST — A butterfly fluttering above the Summit Academy Garden during a recent celebration of its completion offered an early sign that pollinators are already benefiting from the habitat created by students and staff at the public day school. Over the past several months, an area just outside Summit’s main entrance has been transformed from […]

AMHERST — A $50 million gift, one of the largest ever received by Amherst College, will go to support the new student center and dining commons, which is expected to open for the fall semester as the Ford Student Center. The gift comes from William “Bill” Ford, a member of the Class of 1983, his […]

AMHERST — Three Springfield educators are finalists to become the next principal at Amherst Regional High School. With Talib Sadiq stepping down at the end of June from the role he has held on an interim and then permanent basis since fall 2020, those who could be named to the position met with families at […]

AMHERST — In response to concerns from families that the Caminantes dual-language program ends at sixth grade, the Amherst Regional School Committee is giving the go-ahead for administrators to launch a pilot, one-year advanced Spanish program at the middle school. The committee, in a 7-2 vote Tuesday, agreed with a plan to add the course […]

Deerfield Academy graduates march into their future, leaving the school but taking its values and memories with them.

AMHERST — The Amherst School Committee is holding off on turning over the 108,000-square-foot Wildwood School building and the 14.3-acre property to the town until members learn if they can have any say in its future use. Despite a request from Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman for the committee to vote to relinquish the 71 Strong […]

AMHERST — About two weeks after interviewing and photographing Amherst resident Tom Joyce late last year, Ryann Dorrie-Burgoyne, a junior at Amherst Regional High School, completed a watercolor painting, from memory, of his late dog Callie, a Bernese mountain dog. Seeing for the first time his black-and-white portrait, in which he commented that he looks […]

HATFIELD — Near the end of a field trip to Six Flags New England in Agawam last Friday, Smith Academy sophomore Eli Bai and a close friend went to a food stand to order their lunch, choosing chicken tenders and a hot dog. Moments later, while Bai was enjoying the chicken, he realized his friend […]

HADLEY — In the basement of her childhood home, Elaine Tudryn’s father would assemble wooden crates before filling them with bunches of asparagus from the family’s fields, bringing the Hadley grass to Boston to sell at Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market and Haymarket. Once Tudryn was old enough to walk and safely carry a knife, she […]

AMHERST — With a request for proposals now public, Region Commercial of West Springfield is managing the sale of the Hampshire College land and its assets, according to a letter sent to the campus community by President Jenn Chrisler. The Tuesday communication from Chrisler and Jose Fuentes, who chairs the trustees, notes that they have […]

AMHERST — School district officials are confident that they have an appropriate plan for moving Amherst’s sixth graders into a section of the Amherst Regional Middle School that will minimize any impact on seventh- and eighth-grade education. Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman told the Regional School Committee at its May 12 meeting that the placement this […]