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Peace Walk: The Practice of Returning
In Amherst.MA, a small circle of people standing quietly on the Commons might not appear remarkable at first glance. Yet the Commons functions as a living civic space where democracy’s strength rests on the willingness to remain together despite differences. What makes Amherst’s Commons distinctive is that in it each tradition contributes to a shared commitment to nonviolence, dialogue, and the…
Amherst Pride 2026: A Community Celebration
The Amherst Pride 2026 march began under a bright June summer sky as rainbow flags fluttered across the streets and buildings. More than 500 marchers representing 38 organizations joined the parade. Decorated cars and colorful vans accompanied walkers. Hundreds of spectators lined the streets, many dressed in rainbow colors or waving Pride flags transforming downtown Amherst. Home to the…
The Amherst Paradox: The State of Small Business
At the 5th Annual Amherst Area Business Expo on June 25, 2026, under the white event tent at the Inn on Boltwood, local entrepreneurs, nonprofits, financial institutions, restaurants, healthcare providers, and community organizations gathered to reveal a snapshot of the Pioneer Valley’s economy at a time of uncertainty. Supported by Greenfield Savings Bank, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and…
What Are You Doing Here? The Question Behind Belonging
She was a psychologist, which in Amherst means she had achieved a certain sanctioned level of emotional vocabulary and outdoor furniture. Blonde, blue-eyed, cardigan energy that says “community” like it’s both a value system and a lifestyle brand. The brunch table around her was doing its usual choreography: curated humility, mutual validation, and the gentle performance of being the kind of…
Amherst Celebrates Ten Years of Juneteenth
The 10th Anniversary Juneteenth Celebration, organized by the Black Business Association of Amherst Area was held at St. Brigid’s Parish in Amherst. Everywhere, rich reds, greens, golds, and black motifs honored African American history and heritage. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston and informed the last enslaved African Americans that they were…
What Happens If ICE Appears in Amherst? Officials Cite Limits
I attended the Town Hall meeting expecting a discussion. What I did not expect was a two-hour exercise in watching variations of the same question asked repeatedly. The meeting was convened at the request of the Community Safety and Social Justice Committee (CSSJC) and the Human Rights Commission (HRC). Organizers sought responses from the Town Manager and Town Council regarding a wide range of…
Amherst Politics of Endless Outrage
Amherst feels like a group project where everyone can explain intersectionality, systemic oppression, and community accountability with graduate-seminar precision. The values are publicly displayed from front porches, faculty offices, coffee shops, and town buildings. While the lawn signs are immaculate, the mission statements polished but the meetings are not so much. At the beginning of the…
When Public Meetings Feel Pre-Decided
Local observers like Maria Kopicki, “DPW Building Committee Needs to Change How It Conducts Its Business” published through Amherst Indy, understands a seemingly dull committee meeting can reveal far more about institutional culture. In Amherst, the ritual is almost always the same: a fluorescent municipal room, half-charged laptops, consultant slide decks with enough acronyms to qualify as a…
My Father: Love Arrived Sideways
Born in 1940s, my father saw the Partition of India unfold around him. The bloody canal behind the house — those colonial arteries of water and agriculture suddenly carrying evidence of historical rupture. Violence settles into the nervous system and begins monitoring routine long after the event itself. That is what I eventually understood about him: his vigilance was a history…
ACC: Between the Breaks
Amherst Community Connections (ACC), a mutual aid–based nonprofit agency in Western Massachusetts, brings into focus with its Spring Party its new documentary, Who We Are?. On May 2nd, the event becomes a lens, illuminating the often unseen labor of student interns who step into waiting rooms, paperwork, and the quiet negotiations between dignity and survival—the work that never makes the…
Jackson Katz in the Age of Podcasts and Polarization
At Amherst Books, Jackson Katz presented his latest book, Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference, as part manifesto, part survival guide for institutional masculinity reform. A triathlete from a blue-collar Boston Irish background who came of age inside what he once called a “jockocracy,” Katz has spent nearly four decades moving through locker…
Ecological Grief Joined Us for Brunch
At an Amherst brunch, you don’t really realize you’ve signed up for maple syrup, sourdough, and someone explaining fermentation like it’s a personality trait—until ecological grief shows up like it ordered coffee here hours ago. We’re sitting in the house a few yards away from the Fort River. Trees leaning in like witnesses peaceful until someone older starts talking. The retired doctor low…
Hampshire College; Build-Your-Own-Brain, System Not Included
Liberal arts get treated like a luxury now—as if learning how to think is an optional add-on instead of the foundation. Places like Hampshire were never built to feed pipelines but were built to interrupt them. Build-your-own-brain, anti-system, question-everything energy. And right now, that kind of education doesn’t just get ignored but gets quietly starved because the system isn’t collapsing…
The Quiet Distance and Belonging in Tight Communities
California was where everything loosens. Sunlight, space, reinvention. The myth says you arrive, shed whatever was too tight, and rebuild yourself into something freer. But for a lot of us in the Pakistani diaspora, especially the families that have been here for decades, it didn’t loosen but just get reorganized. Our parents didn’t bring the village. They rebuilt it. Not physically in tight…
Amherst Community Connections: Who We Are (When No One’s Watching)
Amherst with tree-lined streets, Farmers markets and students debating climate justice over $7 lattes near University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Mt. Holyoke College. They say that “community matters”—and actually believe it. But we don’t post about the woman choosing between rent and heat in February, the older man quietly aging out of his apartment because the stairs got steeper and…
In Amherst, history doesn’t disappear but settles into rooms. The League of Women Voters had organized a series that year 2026—biographical presentations—held inside the woman’s club that had been gathering voices since 1928. The building that assumes continuity and believes the right people will keep showing up. The room itself was already speaking with chandeliers, soft light, plates of…
We Love the AmherstVision—But Who’s Paying for It?
The facilities that protect our streets, our workers, and our families aren’t optional. Fire stations and DPW centers are the backbone of a functioning town—and right now, Amherst is finally starting to talk seriously about building them. The Town Council is moving forward without what should be the bare minimum: a fully transparent, all-inclusive study that explores every possible construction…