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Eye of the Hurricane: New principal takes the lead at Amherst Regional

AMHERST — Running track for the High School of Commerce in Springfield, Marc Gomes finished fifth in the 100-meter dash at the Western Massachusetts Track and Field Championships in 2004. Amherst Regional High School’s Mike Wiley won the event. Despite this disappointment, as his high school career continued, Gomes began winning regional meets, in part […]

Area Briefs: UMass climbs to No. 24 in public university rankings

UMass climbs to No. 24 in public university rankings AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst climbed five spots to No. 24 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 rankings of top public universities, and is the only public institution in New England in the top 30. UMass is tied at No. 24 with Texas […]

State makes ‘crucial’ investments in local climate technology

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center provided tax incentives and grants to florrent and XFlow Energy to support renewable energy innovation and job creation in western Massachusetts amid reduced federal support.

Southampton's Pomeroy Meadow Road to get sidewalks, drop-off lane in plan for safer route to Norris Elementary

SOUTHAMPTON — Plans are moving forward for new infrastructure on Pomeroy Meadow Road to help give students a safer route to Norris Elementary School, including new sidewalks on both sides of the road, a student drop-off lane and crosswalks. It’s still early in the planning stage, with designs at 25% completion and construction slated for 2028. Town officials and representatives from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) presented current plans at a public hearing Sept. 23 at Norris. “Intents of the program is to provide the infrastructure to walk and bike, and then hopefully (less) cars come and that way people […]

Guest columnist William Lambers: Reagan’s dream of nuke-free world depends on all of us

A new film called “The Brink of War” takes us back in time to the October 1986 Summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The stakes were high at this summit. With the United States and the Soviet Union each having tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, there was the horrifying possibility of a war that could end civilization. Instead of war, the two leaders talked about getting rid of nukes. As President Reagan told the American people after the summit, “We are closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer […]