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 ...

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.

Amherst resident Vincent O’Connor is leading an effort to get the town to change its name. O’Connor argued at a Town Council meeting on Feb. 28 that the town should change its name so as to ...