Amherst News

It was a cold morning in 1985 when Henry A. Driest III awoke to a foot of snow outside his home on Warren Wright Road, Belchertown.

AMHERST, Mass. - David Mednicoff, assistant professor of public policy and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a $1.01 million grant to be principal investigator for interdisciplinary research on legal development and practices in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

AMHERST, Mass.-Arthur J. Ourieff's first semester at college started out like any other.

The University of Massachusetts Libraries is hosting an exhibit, "Metamorphosis: Transformation from Agriculture College to University," through Sept.

Submitted photo GCC student exhibit There will be a reception for an exhibit of student work at Greenfield Community College Thursday, April 18.

Emily Dickinson's home, in Amherst, Mass., offers beautiful grounds and a peek into the life of one of America's greatest writers.

The pink and white lotus flower growing out of a skull on the cover of Coliseum's new record, Sister Faith, pretty much says it all.

The third of eight children, Edith grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts and worked as a bookkeeper before her marriage to Sidney Lansky, a prominent New Bedford attorney.

There are few public safety responsibilities more important than safeguarding the Quabbin Reservoir, which supplies the water needs of metropolitan Boston every day.

On May 27, 1957, Richard was born to Virginia Quitadamo and the late Ralph Quitadamo.

On June 28, Town Administrator Bernie Kubiak will walk out of the front doors of 8 Conway St.

A Sunderland woman admitted in court that while she cannot remember any details of the 2012 motor vehicle accident that killed a 24-year-old University of Massachusetts student, the state has enough evidence to convict her.

The FBI and state police are investigating seven people - from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore - who were allegedly found inside the confines of the Quabbin Reservoir's watershed area shortly after midnight Tuesday, state police said.

Politics, current events, self-help, daily news and etiquette are topics that Americans have enjoyed reading about for centuries, and some of the materials that brought them such information are on display through May 28 at Smith College in Northampton.

AMHERST - The Garden Club of Amherst annual plant sale will be held May 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. under the tent on the Amherst Common, rain or shine.

Top administrators in the University of Massachusetts system were compensated less than the average public school president, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual survey of executive compensation at 214 public colleges.

Brittini M. Benton , of Sunderland, pleaded guilty to motor vehicle homicide and other charges Monday in Hampshire Superior Court in connection with an accident that killed Daniel Haley, of Amherst, a year ago.

POSTHUMOUS HONORS AND A FUNDRAISER FOR JAKE HOFFMAN : Stoughton's Jake Hoffman would have graduated college on May 10, 2013, with a degree from the Isenberg School's Department of Tourism Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Ralph J. Gould, Jr., director of public safety at Holyoke Community College since 2006, will assume the post of chief of police for Smith, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire colleges on June 24.

Writing poems is a way of looking, for Northampton poet Annie Woodhull. Through close observation and imagination, Woodhull works her way toward truth.