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My Turn: A triumph for the arts
03-18-2025 3:43 PM

By LEE WICKS

 


Shutesbury poised to hire Amherst Senior Center director as new town administrator
03-15-2025 2:31 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Hayley Bolton, who for the past six years has led senior centers in Amherst and Bernardston, is poised to become Shutesbury’s town administrator in April.


Amherst Oyster Bar pushes opening day to April 1
03-14-2025 11:17 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

April Fool’s Day will also be the opening day for the Amherst Oyster Bar, the long-planned restaurant in Amherst center that will replace Judie’s Restaurant.


With $402K grant, South Deerfield company with focus on supercapacitors poised to expand
03-13-2025 9:02 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Over the last year, an energy storage solutions research and development company focusing on supercapacitors has been settling into its new facility off of Routes 5 and 10.


Ally Landau’s last-second basket lifts Smith College basketball past Amherst 52-50, into fourth straight NCAA Div. 3 Sweet 16 (PHOTOS)
03-08-2025 11:22 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College women’s basketball team’s nine-point fourth quarter lead in the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball second round had evaporated. Amherst College clawed its way back in it on the defensive end, holding the host Pioneers to just six points for the first 9 minutes, 30 seconds of the frame, and got a massive 3-pointer from guard Reagan Pahl with 13 seconds left to tie the game at 50 apiece. Smith’s deafening crowd turned silent as head coach Lynn Hersey called timeout to draw up a play.


Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Amherst for 45 years ID’d for closure
03-08-2025 2:48 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The Natural Resources Conservation Service office located at 451 West St. since 1980 could close as part of 748 lease terminations posted online last week by the Trump administration.


A moment with Dr. Fauci: Expert who became household name during pandemic featured guest at Amherst College LitFest
03-04-2025 10:16 AM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

AMHERST — When the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report landed on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s desk in June 1981, he had no idea it would be the start of a “dark” period of his career.


‘We need to lead with hope and spirit’: Activist shares her vision of social change
02-28-2025 10:25 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

AMHERST — Varshini Prakash no longer believes that we can “stop” climate change as she did when she was an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, when she was staging sit-ins and protests to pressure her school into divesting from fossil fuels.


My Turn: Real fraud starts with knee-capping watchdogs
02-24-2025 8:16 PM

By ELAINE FRONHOFER

On Jan. 28, the Gazette published an article headlined “Trump order sows confusion, fear across the Valley, beyond.” Journalism like this is crucial to understanding how this administration’s actions will impact all of us. But it’s important to look a little deeper.


My Turn: Will we stop the coup?
02-23-2025 7:43 PM

By RUSS VERNON-JONES


My Turn: Bang a pot, become us!
02-21-2025 12:29 PM

By RICHARD S. BOGARTZ

 


‘We called each other hermanas’: Colleagues remember beloved UMass voice professor, Paulina Stark
02-21-2025 11:21 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Paulina Stark, a professor emerita of voice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1985 to 2005, passed away earlier this month at the age of 88.


Shell yeah: At long last, Amherst Oyster Bar will open next month
02-21-2025 11:18 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Famous for its giant popovers, Judie’s was a mainstay of Amherst’s dining scene, a popular place for people to go to on graduation, alumni and homecoming weekends and to celebrate special events for more than 40 years.


My Turn: ‘Waste not, want not’: Keeping costly energy use low
02-20-2025 4:45 PM

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

Eggs are pricey these days. And eggs aren’t the only thing costing more. Those of us who heat our homes with gas are paying more than twice as much for the same amount of energy as we paid five years ago.


My Turn: Are we getting stupider as our reading declines?
02-17-2025 10:54 PM

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

 


Amherst-Pelham Regional High School track project gets green light, with work to begin in June
02-17-2025 7:01 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Construction of a new track and field at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School, at a cost of $4.11 million, is expected to begin in late June.


Emmett Barcalow: Acting like America’s Mussolini
02-16-2025 8:33 PM

Given his actions, there can be no doubt that Donald Trump is bent on increasing the power and authority of the president well beyond the limits set by the Constitution. Virtually no Republican office-holder is courageous enough to resist this usurpation of power, despite their oath to “support and defend” the Constitution.


Planting hope in the garden: Artist Carrie Mae Weems, who named a peony for W.E.B. Du Bois, dreamed of a memorial garden
02-07-2025 10:41 AM

By LORETTA YARLOW

In 2013, the widely acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems — a charismatic artist, activist and educator, known for installations, videos and photographs that invite the viewer to reflect on issues of race, gender and class — was among 10 artists commissioned to participate in “Du Bois in Our Time,” an exhibition I curated when I was director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


Innovintage Place moves from Greenfield to Amherst
02-06-2025 10:22 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

AMHERST — The vintage and artisan collective that Skye Wellington opened on Black Friday six years ago has reopened in Hampshire County.


Tariffs on pause; local experts call idea ‘unsettling’
02-03-2025 6:33 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH and SAMUEL GELINAS

The ever-shifting tariff landscape took a turn late Monday, as the U.S. agreed to pause tariffs on Canada for 30 days, several hours after agreeing to do the same with Mexico. China, meanwhile, was also preparing to talk with President Donald Trump about impending tariffs on its goods.

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