Taste of Amherst (always late  June) 2014 The Taste of Amherst, that downtown summer institution that brings bliss to Valley foodies a...

Amherst Town Common 12/18/14 As per tradition the public menorah has joined the Merry Maple on the Amherst town common, as this year Ha...

Community spirit was alive and well on the Amherst town common as a couple hundred folks turned out for the First Day Celebration, a com...

Jones Library this morning After an outage of four hours and forty three minutes due to server issues the extensive downtown public...

Taste of Amherst setting up Thursday morning Probably the only event on the Amherst town common that generates more traffic than th...

While police and fire personnel were probably doing a rain dance this morning other town officials were certainly hoping for sunshine as...

The town will issue an " E astern E quine E ncephalitis" alert later today ; as a result the Hot Summer Nights outdoor showing...

Alan Snow, Division Director Tree and Grounds for the town of Amherst, measures off the damage from last weekend's "Extravaganja...

  Swaths of brown mar our beautiful town common One of the hidden costs of allowing free use of the town common for major public events is ...

The traditional menorah adjacent to Merry Maple on Amherst Town Common