Scott Merzbach

AMHERST — Concerns over the operation of the town transfer station, should a pay-as-you-throw curbside trash, recycling and compost system be

AMHERST — With late buses causing students to miss class time and breakfast, the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional schools are developing a revised transportation plan that will likely scale back the number of morning stops.

LEVERETT — From her 10th-floor home and studio on lower Manhattan's Murray Street in the 1980s, Susan Mareneck began creating a large, five-panel oil-on-linen painting of the neighborhood just blocks from the World Trade Center.

AMHERST — A home built around 1870, used as both a residence and offices in recent years, will begin a 12-hour move from its Dickinson Street location to a North Whitney Street site on Wednesday night.

SHUTESBURY — When five solar projects were proposed that could have cleared some 29,000 trees from 190 acres in Shutesbury, town officials were left on their own to cover the costs of the Land Court litigation that followed.

AMHERST — Black and Hispanic students at the Amherst Regional regional schools continue to be disciplined at higher rates than their white and Asian peers, according to statistics recently presented by Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman to the Amherst Regional School Committee.

AMHERST — Three college students living in a downtown off-campus rental will each be fined $100 for disabling the smoke detectors in their home after a fire broke out on their stove early Friday, according to Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren.

AMHERST — “Community Heart & Soul,” a new Amherst initiative, begins with the “Table to Table” community dinner on Nov. 6. The meal, which will run from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center, will feature food from local businesses and is an opportunity for those who come to connect with neighbors to […]

AMHERST — Participatory projects that teach civic engagement and organizing for students of all ages are being supported through a donation to the newly formed Amethyst Brook Parent Guardian Organization.

AMHERST — Four Amherst Fire Department ambulances will be staffed and four out-of-town standby ambulances will be present in town Saturday night, part of an effort to reduce dependence on mutual aid on Halloween.