A confidential "for internal audiences only" consultants report commissioned by Vice Chancellor of development and alumni relations Mike Leto using $24,500 of taxpayer funds discovered "Significant issues with respect to the UMass Amherst Alumni Associ... »
Dr Kate (center) behind Ginger the therapy dogAbout 100 friends, family, business consultants, employees and patients came together to celebrate the long in coming groundbreaking for the Atkinson Family Practice new medical facility on Research Drive i... »
Mullins Center: A giant drain on Amherst public safetyLast Thursday night for a three hour period all five Amherst ambulances were stuck in a continuous loop between the UMass Mullins Center, a state owned entertainment venue, and the Cooley Dickinson ... »
Unlike last weekend, when Amherst Police handed out seventeen $300 noise tickets, this past weekend was, according to detective Dave Foster, "remarkably quiet," with only six noise warnings and three $300 nuisance house tickets issued to one location a... »
Although not nearly as well attended as the annual Extravaganja (coming up next week) the Amherst Sustainability Festival attracted a diverse--albeit--small, hardy crowd to the Town Common. As did the coinciding seasonal debut of the Amherst Farmers M... »
APD downtown AmherstTown Manager John Musante just tweeted (yes, he's on Twitter) about his "ride along" with APD last night. Now we have to get him, like his predecessor Larry Shaffer, to start blogging--or at the very least get on Facebook--to give ... »
War Memorial PoolThe renovations have begun on Amherst's centrally located outdoor pool. The War Memorial Pool was built in 1955 and has served generations of Amherst families ever since...well, except for the past four years when it was closed due to ... »
In addition to the major disturbance at Townhouse Apartments on Meadow Street profiled in the post below, alcohol related incidents kept Amherst police on the go all over town--but particularly so in immediate neighborhoods around UMass: Fearing Street... »
Townhouse Quad. Glorious weather on a long holiday weekend spelled trouble for APD, reminiscent of the September 9 Meadow Street Riot, when the north end of campus erupted in crowd violence while town and UMass officials were busy handing out oatmea... »
This one bedroom colonial at 1156 North Pleasant street, only a stone's throw from North Amherst center or Hobart Lane and Meadow Street--ground zero for student party houses--sold in early March for $264,000, well below its accessed value of $373,500.... »
Downtown Amherst 8:45 AMSo this morning, not quite as early as usual, the 29 commemorative flags returned to their lofty perch in the downtown to commemorate Patriots' Day, one of the few (six) "holidays" the flags are allowed to fly free and proud.Se... »
Yes, only one thing missing from this proposed license plate hawked yet again by the UMass Amherst Alumni Association to help provide scholarships to deserving students who attend UMass Amherst, the flagship of our state education armada, top 100 Unive... »
Over the past thirty years I've had published in print hundreds of sharply pointed Letters to the Editor, perhaps 150 columns in the Amherst Bulletin, and now almost 2,000 posts here in cyberspace; yet I have only once hesitated to hit the publish butt... »
41 Hobart LaneYeah, kind of a "dog bites man story" as almost any abode on Hobart Lane is a usual suspect for Party "House of the Weekend"--especially over the next four or five weeks. Because of course, we are now in the run up to the infamous Hobart... »
Amherst ZBA from right: Mark Parent, Hilda Greenbaum, Keith Langsdale. Jeff Bagg town plannerIn spite of strong objections from neighbors and a first round "NO" vote from member Hilda Greenbaum that would have denied the Special Permit, the Zoning Boa... »
