B udget C oordinating G roup this morning Good thing about being a fly on the wall at public meetings not usually attended by reporters...

A ttorney G eneral approves a bevy of Amherst Town Meeting bylaws The road to the most important legislation passed by Town Meeting in ...

John Kennedy, Kumble Subbaswamy left, Stephanie O'Keeffe, John Musante right 5/15 Town Meeting So yeah, five months after Amherst...

  McMurphy's downtown Amherst 3/10/12 10:45 AM UPDATE (Sunday afternoon):    Looks like the "Half Way to Blarney Blowout&q...

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

Shanksville Pennsylvania 10:04 AM 9/11/01   As Flight 93 streaked toward Washington D.C. that fateful morning, passengers huddled in...

 One commemorative flag in downtown today (DPW forgot to take it down after Labor Day) In her well timed guest column in the weekly A...

"The People" wish to weigh in ... Memo:  Amherst Select Board Re:  Citizen Petition to fly the commemorative flags every ...

  Amherst Select Board meeting 8/26/13 For the second time in less than a year the Amherst Select Board refused to allow the 29 commem...

Town flies flag daily (as does every municipality in Mass) On August 27, almost exactly a year ago, the Amherst Select Board refuse...

The Brits got it right If Norman Rockwell were alive and working today he could use Amherst as a model for a fifth freedom:  "Th...

Last year at the 8/27 Amherst Select Board meeting Chair Stephanie O'Keeffe did not even allow the board, our executive branch, to vote ...

Tip of the North Tower, after the fall Memo: Amherst Select Board Re: Annual Request to remember/honor 3,000 murdered Americans ...

  Rolling Green Apartments, 204 units The Amherst Select Board seems to have simply thrown up their hands and quit the fight to maintai...

Stephanie O'Keeffe, Select Board Chair and strong proponent  of Rental Permit Bylaw While it was unseasonably hot outside the Am...

  Ghosts of Christmas yet to come? "Whereas:  There currently is a severe shortage of rental housing in the Town of Amherst, whic...

 Cherry Hill Golf Course behind the curtain With no discussion except my own and not a single "no" vote other than mine, a n...

About 80 people were invited to the B-I-G meeting between state and town officials and private landlords at UMPD headquarters this afterno...

 Did the "Blarney Blowout" downtown cause riot in North Amherst? The normally staid Amherst Select Board became uncharacteris...

Jonathan Tucker, Stephanie O'Keeffe, John Kennedy  Amherst Select Board Chair Stephanie O'Keeffe deemed the draft document th...