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By Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago ■For sale, that valuable farm and buildings which Martin Burt formerly owned, situated in the westerly part of Southampton. This farm, which contains 150 acres, and three years ago was appraised for cash at $3,200, will be offered and...

By Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago ■Horace Lyman offers for sale the homestead on the plain in Northampton, about one quarter of a mile east of the meetinghouse, now occupied by Sylvester Judd, Jr. It consists of a large two-story house, almost new, a wood house, garden...

By Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago ■Pay Your Taxes! E. S. Phelps, tax collector for the town of Northampton, hereby gives notice to all delinquents that unless their taxes are settled by the first day of March, the tax bills will be put into the hands of the constable....

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago ■William P. Nagle Jr., Ward 4 councilor, said he will request the police and traffic committee to investigate the possibility of employing student help in the police department. Nagle, newly appointed member of the committee, said the...

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago■The 70-member Northampton High School Band, which plans to visit England and Ireland for 10 days in April if it can raise some $30,000, has received encouraging words from a Northampton, England, newspaper. The editor of the “Chronicle &...

By Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago ■The number of deaths in Northampton the last year was 39: ten, under 10 years of age; three, between 10 and 20; five, between 20 and 30; four, between 30 and 40; five, between 40 and 50; three, between 50 and 60; four, between 60 and...

By Jim Bridgman

200 Years Ago■E. Hunt earnestly requests all those indebted to him for the Hampshire Gazette to make payment. Another year is almost expired. His demands are small, but they are of great importance to him. Every little will help. ■For sale or lease,...

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago ■Northampton High School will hold its annual Booster Day on Saturday. Although various activities have been going on for the past two weeks in the high school, Booster Day will culminate in the NHS-St. Michael’s soccer game and the...

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago■Northampton will have a new post office by late 1975, Postmaster John F. Murphy revealed yesterday. Sites are now being considered for the new post office, and according to Murphy, “every consideration will be given to any program the...

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago A bomb explosion at Champ’s Hairstyling on Bridge Street in Haydenville at 11:00 last night is being investigated by the state fire marshal’s office today. Fire department officials speculated the bomb was thrown in the back window of the...

By Jim Bridgman

50 Years Ago■A Northampton car dealership, Cahillane Motors, was one of two businesses broken into Sunday night by safecrackers who made off with an undetermined amount of cash. Easthampton Chevrolet was also victimized by safecrackers who were...