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AMHERST — Sidewalks around the Town Common, where a new performance shell is expected to be built as soon as 2023, will be improved and made more accessible with a $250,000 state grant.The town on Thursday announced that it received the money from the...

This reader, and environmental commentator, was appalled to once again read a report about the proposed destruction of the iconic “Merry Maple Tree” on the Common without any mention of the critical importance of preserving trees in response to the...

AMHERST — Before this year’s Merry Maple ceremony takes place, the large tree that has lent its name to the event since the 1960s is likely to be cut down and removed from the North Common.With the Public Shade Tree Committee last week supporting a...

AMHERST — Before this year’s Merry Maple ceremony takes place, the large tree that has lent its name to the event since the 1960s is likely to be cut down and removed from the North Common.With the Public Shade Tree Committee on Tuesday supporting a...

AMHERST — For nearly a half-century, the Norway maple tree at the center of the North Common has served as the focal point of the Merry Maple celebration that kicks off the holiday season. But its time may soon come to an end as the town prepares to...

AMHERST — For nearly a half-century, the Norway maple tree at the center of the North Common has served as the focal point of the Merry Maple celebration that kicks off the holiday season. But its time may soon come to an end as the town prepares to...

AMHERST — Amherst’s famed Merry Maple tree, and two other aging Norway maple trees on the North Common in front of Town Hall, will be the subject of a hearing next month focused on their possible removal.Tree Warden Alan Snow scheduled the hearing for...

AMHERST — A $1.8 million rehabilitation of the North Common in front of Town Hall, expected to commence in 2023, is receiving a significant influx of federal money.Town officials announced that the project, in which the Main Street parking lot will be...

AMHERST — Thirteen people gathered around the Merry Maple tree in downtown Amherst to read the Declaration of Human Rights on Friday evening — the town’s annual celebration of its adoption by the United Nations.“I think it’s important to just take a...

AMHERST — Human Rights Day was marked with events in downtown Amherst on Friday and Saturday.The commemorations began at 6 p.m. Friday with the reading of a proclamation adopted by the Town Council this week. The candlelight vigil is held on the North...