Taub, Hegner and Schoen used a provision in the town charter to call the emergency meeting and to consider rescinding the $35.28 million in borrowing for the project approved and authorized by the ...

AMHERST — Amherst is facing a much larger than anticipated increase in health insurance costs for fiscal year 2026, with a projected jump of almost 20%, at the top range allowed for the town’s ...

Officials in Amherst, Massachusetts have been revisiting plans to renovate the town's library. The multi-million-dollar project was knocked off-course recently, when the only general contractor ...

AMHERST – Town Council is opting to wait until late next year before deciding whether to withdraw municipal support for the project to renovate and expand the century-old Jones Library.

AMHERST — As part of its ongoing 200th anniversary celebration, Amherst College this week announced it donated $200,000 to two cultural institutions in town. It gave $100,000 to the Friends of ...

AMHERST — The town library presents the living history performance of Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti portraying Harriet Tubman in “I Can’t Die But Once — Harriet Tubman’s Civil War” on ...

Mugging-skateboard attack-pepper spray investigation; free HIV tests; woman dead inside porta-potty ID’d; eatery ...

The Frost Library exhibit is curated by Anika Lopes, the founder of Ancestral Bridges. Lopes is a direct descendant of many of the historical Black communities in Amherst. When returning to Amherst ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – This week, the Town Council of Amherst gave the thumbs up to a $36 million project to renovate the Jones library. The project will restore the history the building holds ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Town of Amherst is looking for residents who want to join boards to help them with the planning of the Jones Library rehabilitation and the new elementary school.