North Amherst News

The Amherst Survival Center is embarking on plans that could lead to having a new building from which it provides services by 2015.

Citing changing consumer tastes and competition from high-volume sawmills all over the world, W. D. Cowls Inc.

Detective David Foster said police received a call at 8:26 p.m. from a Puffton Village woman who got back to her apartment and observed three men inside her bedroom.

Cumberland Farms celebrated the grand opening of its newly remodeled concept store in Norton, Mass., earlier this month with a community wide fundraiser to support the students at Norton High School .

Amherst's status as a mini-entitlement community eligible for more than $600,000 in grants annually will continue for at least the next two years.

A nuisance dog in a North Amherst neighborhood that bit three people over a three-year period will be euthanized following allegations that its owner violated the terms of an agreement with the Select Board she signed in January.

Agriculture is October's theme for Amherst's 250th anniversary celebration and the month fittingly begins with a farm festival on the Town Common Saturday.

13: A man took a hat and left the Apple Market without paying for it. - Grand larceny, Elon Road, Sept.

I was horrified to hear of the hit-and-run incident on Montague Road in North Amherst.

Dozens of families gathered on Friday at the North Amherst community farm for their fourth annual Harvest festival.

A state police trooper examines the front of a bus at the scene of a Sept. 30, 2008, accident that claimed the life of Abraham Espinoza, 2. No charges will be filed in the death of 2-year-old Abraham Espinoza, a toddler who was struck and killed by a school bus in Amherst almost a year ago.

No charges will be filed in the September 2008 death of a toddler who was struck and killed by a school bus, according to the Amherst Police Department.

A 54-year-old Pendleton man was found dead late Tuesday after he was pinned under a tractor.

Growing Amherst's tax base by identifying areas for development and redevelopment is key to an economic development plan prepared by the town manager.

The post office in North Amherst is not on a list of branches slated to close at this time.

The post office in North Amherst is not on a list of branches slated to close at this time.

The post office in North Amherst is not on a list of branches slated to close at this time.

The post office in North Amherst is not on a list of branches slated to close at this time.

Raymond Lansing Bradley, 93, of Port Salerno, formerly of South Deerfield, Mass., died Wednesday morning in Florida.

Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tony Maroulis is looking to begin proactive conversations with downtown landlords to make sure that their new tenants are chosen consciously.