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AMHERST A new building for the UMassFive Credit Union is being planned for two parcels on Northampton Road, continuing a redevelopment trend on the south side of the divided state highway.The project would be located on the properties at 398 and 406.
AMHERST The Amherst Farmers Market is returning to downtown Amherst this month, and in its 51st year will again be set up on the grass of the Town Common.But unlike the past two years when social distancing and other precautions were in place, and.
AMHERST The Amherst Farmers Market is returning to downtown Amherst this month, and in its 51st year will again be set up on the grass of the Town Common.But unlike the past two years when social distancing and other precautions were in place, and.
Around Amherst: Citizen involvement in town budget likely to be put off COVID
Staff Writer
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST An initiative embedded in the Amherst charter to involve residents in town government by offering them a chance to propose various programs and projects annually is unlikely to get off the ground this year.
A commission preparing a final report for June 1 recently informed Town Manager Paul Bockelman that the COVID-19 pandemic makes such a venture known as participatory budgeting challenging to launch.
The charter requires that a commission propose “a measure to adopt participatory budgeting or other similar method of resident participation in the budgeting process of Amherst.”