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Jill Kaufman

Amherst, Springfield

Reporter/Producer at New England Public Media

Reporter, New England Public Media

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  • Belchertown voters will decide whether to raise property taxes to meet a $2.1 million gap in school budget

    1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Jill Kaufman

    New England Public Media | By Jill Kaufman Published March 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM EDT Members of the Belchertown, Mass., select board have narrowly agreed to allow an override vote on the state's tax-cap law known as Proposition 2½. A question will go before residents at the annual town meeting in May. If the override goes through, additional revenue could address a $2.1 million funding gap in the 2025-2026 school budget.

  • Months after votes of no-confidence, UMass Amherst chancellor appears to be looking for new job

    1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Jill Kaufman

    Connecticut Public Radio | By Jill Kaufman Published February 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM EST Javier Reyes, the chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, seems to be looking for a new job. NEPM learned Tuesday that two media outlets in West Virginia, Metro News and The Dominion Post reported Reyes was a finalist for the presidency at West Virginia University, though he was not selected.

  • 'Flawed' snow ordinances often mean curbs, sidewalks remain covered in snow, ice

    1 month ago | nhpr.org | Jill Kaufman

    By law, after a snow storm sidewalks and curb cuts need to be cleared within a period of time. It’s generally not the job of cities or towns; the responsibility belongs to abutting residents and business owners. But some storms make that rule nearly impossible to follow, between a need to clear roads and a drop in temperature. Last week was one of those storms.

  • Salt unavailable to melt ice? Try some sand, molasses or pickle juice

    2 months ago | wbur.org | Jill Kaufman

    With heavy snow, rain and then ice earlier this week, around western Massachusetts and throughout New England, many store shelves are empty of rock salt or de-icer. Even municipalities are running short. In Chicopee, Massachusetts, a multi-day delay of 40 tons of salt based de-icer mucked up the street clean up. Several city trucks were sent earlier this week to Albany, New York, to pick up tons of "common rock salt" from a state vendor, said Mike Pise, chief of staff to Chicopee Mayor John Vieau.

  • Among baboons, UMass anthropologists find male Kindas in unique relationships with females

    2 months ago | nhpr.org | Jill Kaufman

    Among baboons, females tend to form the strongest bonds with each other. Adult males live apart from them, except when mating. The species of Kinda baboons are different. A new study led by Anna Weyher, founder of the Kasanka Baboon Projectand a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sheds new light on the social behaviors of Kinda baboons (Papio kindae), revealing a remarkably "affiliative" relationship between males and females.

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