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 – 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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...