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ANALYTICS 
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Number of Unique Page Views:
Last 30 days: 28,768 (+688)
Last Week: 7362 (+174)
Number of Unique Sessions
Last 30 Days: 11,479 (-103)
Last Week: 2769 (+43)

TOP FIVE MOST-READ STORIES LAST WEEK
1. Board Of Registrars Takes No Action On Appeal Of Signature Disqualifications. Hearing Continued To Monday by Art Keene
2. Town Attorney Caught On Hot Mic In Strategy Meeting To Subvert Appeal On Jones Petition Signatures. Petitioners Move For Her Exclusion For Conflict of Interest by Art Keene
3. Town Clerk Uses Ex-Offico Role On Board Of Registrars To Kill Fresh Count Of Petition Signatures by Art Keene
4. Planning Board Considers Archipelago’s Application For New Building Downtown by Maura Keene
5. CSWG To Town Government: Stop Disrespecting BIPOC People by Art Keene

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?
ARTS
“They Still Want to Kill Us”: UMass Will Partner With Arts Venues Across The Nation to Premier New Short Film Commemorating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Juvenescence: A Look Behind The Scenes At ARHS Theater Company’s Production Of The Sound Of Music by Annalise Peterson

Photo Of The Week: Geese And Goslings At Hopedale Pond By Bruce Wilcox

BUDGET
Public Hearing On FY 22 Budget Slated For Monday

Finance Committee Questions Special Education Costs and School Salaries by Toni Cunningham

CAMPUS
“They Still Want to Kill Us”: UMass Will Partner With Arts Venues Across The Nation to Premier New Short Film Commemorating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

UMass Amherst Confers 6,400 Undergraduate Degrees To The Class Of 2021 In Four Smaller, Socially Distanced Ceremonies

COVID-19 / PUBLIC HEALTH
COVID-19 Daily Update by Art and Maura Keene

Amherst Board Of Health Recommends Opt-Out Of Mosquito Spraying Program by Lenore Bryck

CITIZENS’ PETITION
Town Clerk Uses Ex-Offico Role On Board Of Registrars To Kill Fresh Count Of Petition Signatures by Art Keene

Town Attorney Caught On Hot Mic In Strategy Meeting To Subvert Appeal On Jones Petition Signatures. Petitioners Move For Her Exclusion For Conflict of Interest by Art Keene

Public Comment: Residents Ask Board Of Registrars To Correct Assistant Town Clerk’s Improper Rejection of Petition Signatures by various authors

Letter: Petitioners Represent Tyranny Of The Minority by Matthew Blumenfeld

Letter: Which Signatures Count? by Hilda Greenbaum

Letter: Join Us To Protest The Ongoing Violence Against Palestinians by Yoav Elinevsky and Marty Nathan

ENVIRONMENT / NATURE
Free Webinar On Food Waste Solutions for Businesses and Organizations

Springfield Environmental Expo Will Highlight Intersection Of Environment And Injustice

Almanac: Basalt by Stephen Braun

EVENTS
Public Hearing On FY 22 Budget Slated For Monday

Public Hearing On Inclusionary Zoning Scheduled For May 19

“They Still Want to Kill Us”: UMass Will Partner With Arts Venues Across The Nation to Premier New Short Film Commemorating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Free Webinar On Food Waste Solutions for Businesses and Organizations

FEATURES
Juvenescence: A Look Behind The Scenes At ARHS Theater Company’s Production Of The Sound Of Music by Annalise Peterson

A Few Questions For… Michele Miller And Matthew Andrews, Reparations For Amherst. by Kitty Axelson-Berry

Almanac: Basalt by Stephen Braun

HOUSING
Public Hearing On Inclusionary Zoning Scheduled For May 19

Design Review Board Weighs In On Five-Story Mixed-Use Building Proposed for East Pleasant Street by Pamela Rooney

Planning Department Presents Revised Zoning Bylaws For Mixed-use Buildings and Apartments And Demolition Delay by Maura Keene

ISSUES &. ANALYSES
Issues and Analyses: Promoting Creative Economic Development In Amherst by Gerald Friedman and Maral Asik

Issues & Analyses: A Primer On Inclusionary Zoning by Kitty Axelson-Berry and Suzannah Muspratt

OPINION
Public Comment: Residents Ask Board Of Registrars To Correct Assistant Town Clerk’s Improper Rejection of Petition Signatures by various authors

Letter: Petitioners Represent Tyranny Of The Minority by Matthew Blumenfeld

Letter: Which Signatures Count? by Hilda Greenbaum

Letter: Join Us To Protest The Ongoing Violence Against Palestinians by Yoav Elinevsky and Marty Nathan

Letter: Sometimes A Town Study Is Less Than A Town Study, It’s Actually A Cigar. by Chad Fuller

SCHOOLS
District Considered Moving 6th Grade To Middle School This Fall by Toni Cunningham

Finance Committee Questions Special Education Costs and School Salaries by Toni Cunningham

Juvenescence: A Look Behind The Scenes At ARHS Theater Company’s Production Of The Sound Of Music by Annalise Peterson

SOCIAL JUSTICE
Springfield Environmental Expo Will Highlight Intersection Of Environment And Injustice:

“They Still Want to Kill Us”: UMass Will Partner With Arts Venues Across The Nation to Premier New Short Film Commemorating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Town Clerk Uses Ex-Offico Role On Board Of Registrars To Kill Fresh Count Of Petition Signatures by Art Keene

Letter: Join Us To Protest The Ongoing Violence Against Palestinians by Yoav Elinevsky and Marty Nathan

A Few Questions For… Michele Miller And Matthew Andrews, Reparations For Amherst. by Kitty Axelson-Berry

Reparations For Amherst Releases Draft Report On Black White Disparities In Town by Art Keene

TOWN GOVERNMENT
Public Hearing On FY 22 Budget Slated For Monday

Finance Committee Questions Special Education Costs and School Salaries by Toni Cunningham

Town Clerk Uses Ex-Offico Role On Board Of Registrars To Kill Fresh Count Of Petition Signatures by Art Keene

Town Attorney Caught On Hot Mic In Strategy Meeting To Subvert Appeal On Jones Petition Signatures. Petitioners Move For Her Exclusion For Conflict of Interest by Art Keene

Public Hearing On Inclusionary Zoning Scheduled For May 19

Design Review Board Weighs In On Five-Story Mixed-Use Building Proposed for East Pleasant Street by Pamela Rooney

Amherst Redistricting Is Now Underway. Here’s What You Need To Know

Issues & Analyses: A Primer On Inclusionary Zoning by Kitty Axelson-Berry and Suzannah Muspratt

Planning Department Presents Revised Zoning Bylaws For Mixed-use Buildings and Apartments And Demolition Delay by Maura Keene

Issues and Analyses: Promoting Creative Economic Development In Amherst by Gerald Friedman and Maral Asik

Amherst Board Of Health Recommends Opt-Out Of Mosquito Spraying Program by Lenore Bryck