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TOP FIVE MOST-READ ARTICLES LAST WEEK
1. Council President Withheld Information From Colleagues by Maria Kopicki
2. Owners Say Big Y Will Remain if University Drive Overlay District Created by Maura Keene
3. Amherst’s Neighboring Towns: South Hadley by Hetty Startup
4.Library Commissioners Approve Second Jones Construction Deadline Extension by Jeff Lee
5.What Is a Student Home? Planning Board Adds Definition to ADU Bylaw by Maura Keene


WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?

ARTS

• Amherst Cinema Presents Its 100th Bellwether Screening
• What’s Happening in Amherst? by Art and Maura Keene

BUDGET

• Finance Committee Ponders Spending Potential Savings on School Project Instead of Passing Them on to Amherst Taxpayers by Maria Kopicki

CAMPUS

• Letter: The UMass Foundation “Respectfully Denies” Our Right to a Future by Kevin A. Young and Brendan Post

CLIMATE /ENERGY/ ENVIRONMENT/ NATURE

• Shutesbury Road Solar Project Hits Roadblock by Maura Keene

DEMOCRACY

• Charter Review Committee Will Emphasize Public Outreach by Anita Sarro
• Walkout at Amherst Schools in Support of Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights by Marisol Pierce Bonifaz
• Letter: The UMass Foundation “Respectfully Denies” Our Right to a Future by Kevin A. Young and Brendan Post

DOWNTOWN

• Photos of the Week: Lighting of the Merry Maple by Hetty Startup and the Town of Amherst

EVENTS

• Amherst Cinema Presents Its 100th Bellwether Screening
• What’s Happening in Amherst? by Art and Maura Keene

FEATURES

• Amherst’s Neighboring Towns: Leverett (Part 2) by Hetty Startup and the Town of Amherst

HISTORY /HISTORIC PRESERVATION

• An Open Letter to U.S. Representative Jim McGovern Regarding the Jones Library Project by Jeff Lee
• Letter: Amherst’s Long Failure to Comply with Preservation Law by Sarah McKee
• Amherst’s Neighboring Towns: Leverett (Part 2) by Hetty Startup

HOUSING

LIBRARY

• An Open Letter to U.S. Representative Jim McGovern Regarding the Jones Library Project by Jeff Lee
• Letter: Amherst’s Long Failure to Comply with Preservation Law by Sarah McKee
• Is the Daily Hampshire Gazette Fair and Balanced? by Lou Conover

MEDIA

• Is the Daily Hampshire Gazette Fair and Balanced? by Lou Conover

OPINION

• An Open Letter to U.S. Representative Jim McGovern Regarding the Jones Library Project by Jeff Lee
• Letter: Amherst’s Long Failure to Comply with Preservation Law by Sarah McKee
• Is the Daily Hampshire Gazette Fair and Balanced? by Lou Conover
• Opinion: Equity Under Attack by the Town of Amherst #4: Saving Amherst’s Community Responders Alternative to Policing by Allegra Clark, Debora Ferreira, Pat Ononibaku, Darius Cage, Russ Vernon-Jones, Brianna Owen, Ellisha Walker, and Tashina Bowen

PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY

• Opinion: Equity Under Attack by the Town of Amherst #4: Saving Amherst’s Community Responders Alternative to Policing by Allegra Clark, Debora Ferreira, Pat Ononibaku, Darius Cage, Russ Vernon-Jones, Brianna Owen, Ellisha Walker, and Tashina Bowen

SCHOOLS

• Finance Committee Ponders Spending Potential Savings on School Project Instead of Passing Them on to Amherst Taxpayers by Maria Kopicki
• Objections Raised to Four Roundabout Plan for South East Street by Maura Keene
• Walkout at Amherst Schools in Support of Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights by Marisol Pierce Bonifaz
• Town Seeks Input on Youth Empowerment Programming

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE

• Walkout at Amherst Schools in Support of Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights by Marisol Pierce Bonifaz
• Letter: The UMass Foundation “Respectfully Denies” Our Right to a Future by Kevin A. Young and Brendan Post
• Opinion: Equity Under Attack by the Town of Amherst #4: Saving Amherst’s Community Responders Alternative to Policing by Allegra Clark, Debora Ferreira, Pat Ononibaku, Darius Cage, Russ Vernon-Jones, Brianna Owen, Ellisha Walker, and Tashina Bowen

TOWN GOVERNMENT

• Finance Committee Ponders Spending Potential Savings on School Project Instead of Passing Them on to Amherst Taxpayers by Maria Kopicki
• Objections Raised to Four Roundabout Plan for South East Street by Maura Keene
• Shutesbury Road Solar Project Hits Roadblock by Maura Keene
• High School Track and Field Redesign Approved by Planning Board and Conservation Commission by Maura Keene
• Town Manager Receives High Marks in Annual Review  by Art Keene
• Charter Review Committee Will Emphasize Public Outreach by Anita Sarro
• ZBA Hears Cases on Restaurant, Apartment, and Parking by Hilda Greenbaum
• Town Seeks Input on Youth Empowerment Programming
• New Appointments to Board of Assessors, CDBG Advisory Committee, Council on Aging, and Public Art Commission by Art Keene
• Opinion: Equity Under Attack by the Town of Amherst #4: Saving Amherst’s Community Responders Alternative to Policing by Allegra Clark, Debora Ferreira, Pat Ononibaku, Darius Cage, Russ Vernon-Jones, Brianna Owen, Ellisha Walker, and Tashina Bowen

TRANSPORTATION

• Objections Raised to Four Roundabout Plan for South East Street by Maura Keene