Stephanie O'Keeffe Select Board Chair (center), John Coull,her dad, A mherst R edevelopment A uthority Chair (ducking), Jada Kelley (cut...

Town Clerk Sandra Burgess, center  The nail biting time for election candidates their supporters and the media -- usually starting as so...

Since it is such a tough task for harried voters to keep track of 24 candidates per precinct (especially with some precincts not having e...

Friends, Anons, Bloggers , lend me your eyes; I come to praise Catherine Sanderson not to bury her. The good that she has done, lives afte...

Harry Brooks Registrar of Voters, Sandra Burgess Town Clerk (center) Catherine Sanderson gracefully bids adieu UPDATED : Town Meeting Result...

The best PR flack in the business--even the guy who came up with “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette”--would have a hard tim...

clockwise: Peg Roberts, Larry Shaffer, Aaron Hayden, John Coull, Jonathan Tucker If someone had not taunted me in town center on Thursday m...

UPDATE: Wednesday 10:00 AM So I was almost perfect in my predictions yesterday. Amherst went W-A-Y overboard supporting all the Ds inclu...

So I'm preparing a more detailed analysis of the election for my Umass online journalism course mid-term assignment but figured I would...

Wow, the town must really be taking this election seriously as the red reminder to "VOTE tomorrow" displaced the cute Cherry Hill...

Since Senator Kennedy did me a couple of B-I-G favors over the past 25 years, I should be more excited about voting for his replacement. Bu...

So once again activist Amherst will turn out a pathetic 15 to 20% of the vote to cast ballots in the annual town election. Last November it...