UMass Dining Services To Hold On-the-Spot Hiring Event
Hiring Will Take Place For A Variety Of Positions, With Competitive Wages And Flexible Schedules...
Year: 2021
Issues & Analyses: Candidates In Contested Races Weigh In On Social Justice
By Art and Maura Keene While listening to the League of Women Voters–Amherst (LWVA) forum...
Issues & Analyses: Becoming Human (#5). How Universal Basic Income Can Help Build A Solidarity Economy
In this installment of Becoming Human, we are very pleased to reprint an article in...
Public Comment: Redistricting For Equality An Impossible Task Under The Current Charter
The following public comment was made at the Town Council meeting of October 18, 2021...
Public Comment: New Resident Sees Flawed Process In Promoting Parking Garage
The following written public comment was submitted to the town’s public comment portal on October...
Letter: My Opposition To The Ross/Ryan Parking Structure And My Disappointment In The Planning Board
Editor’s note: We received two pieces of correspondence from Jay Silverstein this week; a letter...
Letter: Jones Trustees’ Anti-racism Resolution Is Self-Serving, Tone Deaf
It is impossible for me to see this on-the-surface admirable statement so horrendously timed —...
Letter: Amherst Forward’s Unwelcome Endorsement Is An Act Of White Privilege
I was angered and perplexed when I read the October 4, 2021 article in the...
Letter: Failure To Protect Historic Documents Underscores Failings of Jones Library Leadership
In her letter about the Jones Library in the Amherst Bulletin, my friend Susan Tracy,...
Letter: Libraries And Schools
A library is more than its building or its stacks of books and reading materials....
Letter: There Are Better Ways To Improve Our Libraries Than The Proposed Jones Expansion
On November 2 we can start over smart by rejecting the borrowing for the Jones...
Letter: I Plan To Vote No On The Library Project
I’m an educator who loves books, and really loves to read at home, at work...