Too bad they have to wait a year, but starting in September 2020, students in Amherst middle and high school will be able to get a bit more sleep in the morning because school officials there finally decided to make start times later. We say “finally decided” because we can’t for the ...
We do not know the name of the New Hampshire state trooper who, after last week’s snow storm, issued 17 tickets to drivers who had not bothered to clear the snow off of their cars, thus finding themselves in violation of Jessica’s Law, named for a young woman killed when flying ice hit a ...
71 years ago, 1948 The three-story brick store and post office building in Amherst, owned by Andrew J. Raymond, was destroyed by fire. It was the only three-story building on town and had been a Village landmark since 1809. Also housed in the building were the IGA market on the first floor ...
In March 1964, firefighters from five towns battled two major warehouse fires in two days, including this spectacular blaze at the Wirthmore grain storage elevator on Mill Street in Milford.
It seems like not too long ago that at the United Way we planned one event per year: Day of Caring. That was a great event, where we connected folks to various agencies to go out and in one big day of service help with painting walls, digging gardens, cleaning up basements, etc. Hard to ...
When you head to the ballot box on March 12, please consider voting YES on the Amherst School District Warrant Article 15. This Article will ask you to approve $225,000 to fund a comprehensive study to be conducted by a professional architectural or engineering firm specializing in educational ...