With liberty and justice for all Amherst will remember the saddest day of our -- or any other -- generation this Sunday with the 15th a...

Town broke out the BIG flag for Labor Day, and will again for 9/11 After 15 years you would think the words would come easier, with fee...

Commemorative flags up for July 4th, main flag at half-staff to honor Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew Clement, US Navy, a Massachusetts na...

Heart of downtown this morning I always love it when the DPW "forgets" to retrieve all the commemorative flags after one of t...

Town center 7:27 AM The town put up the really BIG flag this morning, at half staff, to remember the 2,997 fellow citizens who started ...

 Commemorative flag flies from downtown utility pole The commemorative flags went up in the downtown yesterday at the crack of dawn to ...

 Commemorative flags in town center The one hour discussion last night at the regular Monday meeting of the Amherst Select Board was one...

Monday night marks my 14th annual visit (the 1st being in October, 2001) to the Amherst Select Board to request 9/11 be added to the per...

Belchertown Civil War monument, Town Common The two hour public hearing in the quaint little college town of Amherst regarding the fl...

You can tell BigY is family owned Oddly enough I've never been a h-u-g-e fan of Flag Day simply because I believe every day should...

Seems like Facebook, being such a visual medium, is good for a daily dose of outrage (or two). When you use an image as powerful as the...

NASA Space Station photo taken 1/30/14 Normally,   I would not be in favor of our government spending tax dollars on P ublic R elations...

AFD Central Station 9:00 AM  So another anniversary has come and gone.  Well, gone if you mark the duration of the attack:  Stunning in...

"... that these dead shall not have died in vain." About the only thing I left out in my brief polite presentation to the A...

Downtown Amherst Labor Day morn Considering how arduous was the struggle to bring about sane regulations to protect the rights, heal...

9/11/2012 New York City financial district My only concern with painting a crosswalk to resemble an American flag is that flag proto...

Amherst downtown 6/14, aka Flag Day On the night of September 10, 2001, less than 12 hours before the world changed, the Amherst Sele...

Amherst's famous commemorative flags honoring Patriot's Day If you were there as it happened or simply watched as the visuals f...

UN flag flies 24/7, 365 days a year in front of Amherst Town Hall One of the earlier political "firsts" for the loquacious l...

Amherst Town Center 9/11/11.  Commemorative flags will not fly again until 2016, unless So I'm trying to anticipate the excuse th...