lehrerRosh Hashanah greetings to all our Jewish friends and neighbors. Garden report: The zinnias, wave petunias, straw flowers, gomphrena, begonia, New England asters and sweet William are still flowering. I picked some lavender blossoms to make a.
AMHERST Events to commemorate the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to celebrate civil rights, are planned for this weekend in Amherst.But with the region still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the activities, like they were in.
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Tributes flow for beloved Amherst teacher Martha Faison
Longtime Fort River kindergarten teacher Martha Faison was civically active as well. She dies last month at 83 of COVID-19 complications. CONTRIBUTED
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Martha Faison’s passion for multiculturalism gave a generation of kindergartners at Fort River School an immersion in cultural diversity as their education in Amherst schools began.
But for her closest friends and colleagues, as well as her daughters, Faison, who died at 83 of COVID-19 related complications Feb. 13, she also lived the experience of promoting social justice and civil rights, helping to oversee Amherst’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast and hosting scholars from the Amherst A Better Chance program.
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