Dress-a-Girl seamstresses, doll makers, ironers, cutters, and runners: come sew with us on the fourth Monday of the month! We’ll be meeting in Westminster Hall from 4:00-8:00pm on Monday, February 26. Join us for all of that time or for any part of that time. Please bring a salad ingredient for our build-a-salad supper. Dessert…

Seven percent of children in Amherst live in poverty. Twenty percent of children in Amherst receive free or reduced school lunches due to their families’ income levels. Four percent of families in Amherst live in poverty. In Amherst, the people who live in poverty are the very young and very old. Many of them are…