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 ...

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 The Amherst Town Council at an emergency meeting on Monday rejected a measure that would have rescinded the borrowing authorization to ...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, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I read with dismay that an Amherst resident appealed to DOGE and federal officials to halt funding for the planned Humanities ...