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Around Amherst: Nonprofit gifts $40K to Affordable Housing Trust

AMHERST — A nonprofit organization that has long supported efforts to provide housing for low- and moderate-income individuals, and helped launch the town’s first overnight emergency homeless shelter in 2009, is making a donation to the Amherst...

Read More 24 July 2024 | 9:10 pm

Feds eye flood mitigation measures in Pioneer Valley

With Massachusetts experiencing its seventh-wettest year on record in 2023 as torrential rainstorms ravaged roads, farms and homes, the federal government, the state and those here in the Pioneer Valley are turning their eyes toward future flood...

Read More 24 July 2024 | 9:09 pm

Charged UMass protesters marshal defense: Question crackdown, cite ‘bad-faith’ chancellor negotiations

BELCHERTOWN — Protesters who were arrested at the May 7 pro-Palestinian rally on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus filed out of the Eastern Hampshire District Courthouse on July 17 after pretrial proceedings to gather with supporters,...

Read More 24 July 2024 | 9:08 pm

Run for, by its employees: Paragus IT completes 8-year transition to being 100% employee-owned

HADLEY — When the employees of Paragus Strategic IT’s Hadley office stroll into the office on a given morning, they know that they have a good reason to stay there.After implementing the first stages of a plan in 2016 to transfer ownership of the...

Read More 24 July 2024 | 9:08 pm

Belchertown unveils more user-friendly website

BELCHERTOWN — A new town website is designed to offer improved usability for site visitors and municipal employees, easier navigation and timely notifications for news and events.The revamped website presents the most-used resources for residents on...

Read More 24 July 2024 | 9:08 pm

Note from the publisher: Amherst Bulletin distribution change

Bulletin Readers,On Aug. 1, 2024, we are changing how the Amherst Bulletin is distributed. Effective with the Aug. 1 edition, the Bulletin will be available weekly for free pickup at nearly 60 locations throughout Amherst, Belchertown, Hadley,...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

Amherst Town Council rejects candidate over tilt toward abutters

AMHERST — Written and oral comments from a resident indicating she would prioritize views of abutters when decisions are made by the Planning Board, and might bring a confrontational relationship toward the University of Massachusetts, have cost her a...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

Herrell’s Ice Cream to open pop-up shop in North Amherst this summer

AMHERST — Herrell’s Ice Cream, a mainstay on Old South Street at Thorne’s Marketplace in downtown Northampton, will be opening a pop-up shop in the North Square at the Mill District in North Amherst by the end of July, with plans to have a permanent...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

Hadley Route 9 project finish expected in spring 2026

HADLEY — The $26.2 million project to widen Route 9 from the town center east to the intersection of North and South Maple streets remains on track to be completed by spring 2026.The expected finish date for the work on the state highway is April...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

High-speed police chase in Hadley ends in crash, arrest on Hampton Inn lawn

HADLEY — A high-speed chase in Hadley on July 10 ended with a car crash that closed part of Bay Road after an unmarked police vehicle collided with the pursued vehicle just outside the Hampton Inn.The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. with police...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

Yankee Candle consolidation prompts loss of 100 jobs

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Newell Brands, Yankee Candle’s parent company, announced Monday that Sept. 9 will be the last day of operations at its distribution facility at 27 Yankee Candle Way.The news of an official date to end distribution operations there...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

Around Amherst: North Amherst Library will replace church as polling site

AMHERST — The North Amherst Library, which reopened to the public earlier this year, will be the new in-person polling location for voters in Precinct 1A, beginning with the state primary in September.Acting on a request from Town Clerk Susan Audette,...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:31 am

$2M in historic tax credits for Jones Library expansion off the table

AMHERST — Around $2 million in historic tax credits sought for the $46.1 million expansion and renovation of the Jones Library will not be available after the project was deemed ineligible by the Massachusetts Historical Commission, whose staff are...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:29 am

Pakistani scholars in UMass program revel in multi-layered learning

AMHERST — Being on the University of Massachusetts campus for nearly a month, her first experience outside her native Pakistan, Mahan Aslam has found Americans courteous in not bothering her when she’s not wearing a traditional headscarf.“In the U.S.,...

Read More 18 July 2024 | 7:28 am

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