Amherst News

Raising the Puerto Rican flag over the town common is a November tradition in Amherst that helps to celebrate the town's cultural and ethnic diversity.

The states largest university served as the forum on Sunday night, five out of the six candidates to fill the late senate seat left by the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

Rainfall on the morning of the 250th anniversary parade may have put some damper on the celebrations, but the wet weather is now proving to be a financial windfall for the town.

Those who heard the ceiling collapse likened it to the sound of stampeding elephants.

Competing videos of Amherst's 250th anniversary parade are now available for sale to the public, providing an option for residents looking to preserve their memories of the signature celebratory event.

The only woman in the contest to replace the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is planning to be absent from a candidates forum being co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters Sunday night in Amherst.

A Department of Public Works design aimed at making Pomeroy Village, the bustling village center in South Amherst, more pedestrian friendly can proceed once funding is in place.

With three months of the current fiscal year under its belt, Amherst's municipal budget is tracking well, according to town officials.

Sugarbush Meadows, the 150-unit apartment complex proposed for Plumtree Road and Route 116, might not be built after all.

After losing more than $80,000 in state aid because of recent cuts made by the governor, Town Meeting agreed to fill this gap by using a portion of the more than $2.5 million held in the town's cash reserves account.

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst canceled an upcoming talk yesterday by Ray Luc Levasseur, a man once listed as one of the FBI's most wanted criminals and the former leader of the radical revolutionary group United Freedom Front, said university spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.

Amherst's status as a mini-entitlement community eligible for more than $600,000 in grants annually will continue for at least the next two years.

Police said a woman was sexually assaulted inside the main library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Tuesday.

Police at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst are investigating an alleged sexual assault in the main campus library.

College received separate gifts of $100 million and $25 million, the two largest in its history, the liberal arts school announced.

This weekend's production of "The Pirates of Penzance" by Valley Light Opera at Amherst Regional High School celebrates two milestones - the 35th anniversary of the local opera and the 125th anniversary of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

Last September, Boston University was the first local college to sound the alarm on an impending financial crisis that would soon penetrate much of academia: President Robert Brown curbed spending, froze staff hiring, and halted construction.

Choose your own path to school regionalization, or we'll choose it for you. That was the message from the state over the past couple of years, and it was enough to keep small Hampshire County schools scrambling.

The family of Misty C. Bassi, who was killed as she rode her bicycle on University Drive in Amherst in May, told a judge Thursday they do not want the woman whose car struck Bassi to be incarcerated.

* Angel L. Martinez, 31, of Ludlow, was arrested Monday at 3:13 p.m. on South Pleasant Street on four outstanding warrants from Springfield District Court, police said.