Guest columnist Mariel E. Addis: Regarding conversion therapy

Area Briefs: Ephemeral films gets big-screen night at Amherst Cinema

Ephemeral films get big-screen night at Amherst Cinema Amherst Cinema will welcome Rich Remsberg and Shawn Rosenheim for a curated evening of ephemeral films: vintage classroom instruction, industrial animations, forgotten children’s TV shows, declassified military training films, religious movies, scraps of stock footage and a bunch of weird science stuff. Travel with Remsberg and Rosenheim […]

UMass men's basketball : Frank Martin weighs in on college basketball’s changing landscape

AMHERST — While his season-opening press conference on Monday, Oct. 5 was centered around the players on his team, UMass men’s basketball coach Frank Martin was not shy on sharing his thoughts about the landscape of college basketball. In his opening lines in the afternoon, Martin commented on the shift in the start of the […]

Columnist Dr. David Gottsegen: Nov. 3 — a vote for or against science

In three weeks, Americans will be voting for those who will represent us in Congress. But the midterms are much more than which politicians we vote for. They are a vote for or against science. Though no position in government was immune from political influence, past heads of the Department of Health and Human Services […]

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Northampton School Committee OKs policy on immigrant detentions

NORTHAMPTON — School Committee members voted to approve a policy that aims to protect students from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in accordance with state law. Gov. Maura Healey signed the PROTECT Act, which prohibits immigration arrests without a judicial warrant or court-issued order at courthouses, public schools, child and healthcare facilities and other state-owned or […]