AMHERST — Hampshire College will close at the end of the calendar year, bringing to an end an institution that enrolled its first students in 1970. “This is an extremely painful, deeply sad day for our students, a disruption to their academic journey,” President Jennifer Chrisler said in a phone interview Tuesday morning, just hours […]
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Scott Merzbach is a reporter covering local government and school news in Amherst and Hadley, as well as Hatfield, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury. He can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com or 413-585-5253.
