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TOP FIVE MOST-READ ARTICLES LAST WEEK
1. Earl Miller Appointed As Director Of Amherst’s Community Responder Program by Art Keene
2. Building Committee Receives Preliminary Cost Estimates For New Elementary School by Maura Keene
3. Attorney General Reviewing Jones Library Hiring Approach by Jeff Lee
4. Planning Board Recommends Revised Historic Preservation Bylaw. WD Cowls Withdraws Subdivision Plan For Proposed Solar Array by Maura Keene
5. Letter: It’s Time to Repoen Take It Or Leave It At The Transfer Station by Norman Brown
WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?
NEW / BREAKING
COVID-19 Weekly Update For The Week Of March 16, 2022 by Art and Maura Keene
Opinion: Jennifer Shiao’s School Committee Blog. Regional School Committee Approves High School Track And Field Project by Jennifer Shjao
CAMPUS
UMass Lifts Indoor Mask Mandate
Large Crowd For UMass Energy Transition Institute Launch by Maura Keene
UMass Amherst College Of Engineering Receives $10 Million Gift For Investment In Atmospheric Research
Photo Of The Week: UMass Women Win A-10 Basketball Tournament by Greg Flume/A10
CLIMATE / ENVIRONMENT / NATURE
Large Crowd For UMass Energy Transition Institute Launch by Maura Keene
Local Energy Advocates Of Western Massachusetts Offer Presentation On Ithaca’s Green New Deal
Public Comment – Update On Zero Waste Amherst’s Proposal To Reform Town’s Waste Hauler System by Darcy DuMont
Opinion: Local And Green. Can Amherst Be As Bold As Ithaca? by Darcy DuMont
Opinion: Love, Justice, And Climate Change. What’s Needed – Changes In Our Economic System by Russ Vernon-Jones
A Few Questions For Alan Snow, The Guy In Charge Of Trees On Public Land In Amherst by Kitty Axelson-Berry
DOWNTOWN
TSO Endorses Changes For Increase In Downtown Parking Permit Fees by Art Keene
EVENTS
Brown Bag On Reparations
Local Energy Advocates Of Western Massachusetts Offer Presentation On Ithaca’s Green New Deal
FEATURES
Dear Reader by Art Keene
A Better World Is Possible: Bhutan And Gross National Happiness by Art Keene
A Few Questions For Alan Snow, The Guy In Charge Of Trees On Public Land In Amherst by Kitty Axelson-Berry
Photo Of The Week: UMass Women Win A-10 Basketball Tournament by Greg Flume/A10
Town Manager Report For March 7, 2022
HOUSING
Northampton Road Supportive Studio Project To Break Ground This Month by Maura Keene
LIBRARIES
Jones Library Drops Mask Mandate, Unveils FY23 Budget Request by Jeff Lee
Attorney General Reviewing Jones Library Hiring Approach by Jeff Lee
OPINION
Opinion: Jennifer Shiao’s School Committee Blog. Regional School Committee Approves High School Track And Field Project By Jennifer Shiao
Public Comment: Personal Testimony On Growing Up Black In Amherst by Alexis Reed
Public Comment – Update On Zero Waste Amherst’s Proposal To Reform Town’s Waste Hauler System by Darcy DuMont
Opinion: Local And Green. Can Amherst Be As Bold As Ithaca? by Darcy DuMont
Opinion: Love, Justice, And Climate Change. What’s Needed – Changes In Our Economic System by Russ Vernon-Jones
Opinion: My Conversations With Andy Churchill by Meg Gage
Opinion: A Civil Conversation, Part 2 by Meg Gage and Andy Churchill
Opinion: Jennifer Shiao’s School Committee Blog. School Committee Takes Important Step To Move Elementary School Building Project Forward by Jennifer Shiao
PUBLIC HEALTH
COVID-19 Weekly Update For The Week Of March 16, 2022 by Art and Maura Keene
Board Of Health Rescinds Indoor Mask Mandate by Maura Keene
UMass Lifts Indoor Mask Mandate
Jones Library Drops Mask Mandate, Unveils FY23 Budget Request by Jeff Lee
COVID-19 Weekly Update For The Week Of March 9, 2022 by Art and Maura Keene
SCHOOLS
Opinion: Jennifer Shiao’s School Committee Blog. Regional School Committee Approves High School Track And Field Project by Jennifer Shiao
School Building Project Clears Two Hurdles by Toni Cunningham
Opinion: Jennifer Shiao’s School Committee Blog. School Committee Takes Important Step To Move Elementary School Building Project Forward by Jennifer Shiao
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Town Manager Nominates Members For New Social Justice Committee by Art Keene
Brown Bag On Reparations
Public Comment: Personal Testimony On Growing Up Black In Amherst by Alexis Reed
SOLAR
Council Approves Creation of Solar Bylaw Working Group by Maura Keene
TOWN GOVERNMENT
School Building Project Clears Two Hurdles by Toni Cunningham
Board Of Health Rescinds Indoor Mask Mandate by Maura Keene
Town Manager Nominates Members For New Social Justice Committee by Art Keene
TSO Endorses Changes For Increase In Downtown Parking Permit Fees by Art Keene
Council Approves Creation of Solar Bylaw Working Group by Maura Keene
Attorney General Reviewing Jones Library Hiring Approach by Jeff Lee
Brown Bag On Reparations
Opinion: My Conversations With Andy Churchill by Meg Gage
Opinion: A Civil Conversation, Part 2 by Meg Gage and Andy Churchill
A Few Questions For Alan Snow, The Guy In Charge Of Trees On Public Land In Amherst by Kitty Axelson-Berry
Town Manager Report For March 7, 2022