Jones Library trustee Lee Edwards (bottom right) guides a tour through the Special Collections wing of the facility on Saturday, March 30, highlighting the collections of Robert Frost and Emily ...

A $1 million National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the Jones Library two years ago is being canceled by the ...

FILE - Inside the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts. It took years of planning, a referendum and several city council votes that almost iced it, but the Jones Library renovation project is ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Ahead of its closure for renovations to begin, the historic Jones Library in Amherst held a farewell celebration on Saturday, with hundreds of visitors coming to say ...

A rendering of the Jones Library addition, located at right. The Amherst Town Council at an emergency meeting on Monday rejected a measure that would have rescinded the borrowing authorization to ...

AMHERST – What had been a $36.3 million estimate a year ago to renovate and expand Jones Library is now pegged at $48.9 million, town manager Paul Bockelman told the Town Council this week.

Carol Gray, a former Jones trustee, said Amherst doesn’t need a $53 million library and asked the MBLC to put an end to the project. “It’s tearing our town apart,” Gray said.

AMHERST – Dramatically higher estimated costs to renovate and expand Jones Library, originally pegged at $36.3 million, means the trustees have some difficult choices to make. During meetings ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A power outage in the Jones Library in Amherst resulted with it closing for the day on Wednesday. According to a social media post by the Town of Amherst, due to ...

Jones Library in Amherst held its annual children’s “Tea Party and Storytime” event on Saturday morning with special guest Giganta Smalls, a professional drag queen and educator from Connecticut. The ...