As areas in Amherst regain power and students resume classes, the University of Massachusetts continues to give support to off-campus students without power. Many students were able to access free food...
Unfortunate winter storm still leaves many in the dark as Western Massachusetts Electric Company works to turn the lights back on for the Pioneer Valley.
The rare fall nor’easter that pummeled the region Saturday left hundreds of thousands of people without power and toppled trees and branches across the Pioneer Valley and around much of the Northeast, shaking up normality for some.
UMass will be open and hold classes as normally scheduled today, but school officials are urging those traveling to campus take caution when heading out, a University spokesman said yesterday.
Students and Amherst residents are coping the best they can considering the unforeseen circumstances that have cut power throughout most of western Massachusetts.
Between 20 and 31 inches of snow blanketed Western Massachusetts in an unprecedented snowstorm last Saturday according to meteorologist Charles Foley from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Taunton, Mass.