Bob Cilman and Kathy Service speak about Duane Robinson, late manager of the Academy of Music Theatre, during a ceremony Friday at the Eva Trager Memorial, right, on Main Street in Northampton. The names of four other honorees were added to the base of the owl sculpture by Greg Stone: Charles Bowles, William Letendre, Gordon Thorne and Dan Yacuzzo. 
Bob Cilman and Kathy Service speak about Duane Robinson, late manager of the Academy of Music Theatre, during a ceremony Friday at the Eva Trager Memorial, right, on Main Street in Northampton. The names of four other honorees were added to the base of the owl sculpture by Greg Stone: Charles Bowles, William Letendre, Gordon Thorne and Dan Yacuzzo.  Credit: STAFF PHOTOS/KEVIN GUTTING

NORTHAMPTON – Close to 200 people gathered at the Eva Trager Memorial on Main Street during the city’s Arts Night Out on Friday to remember five individuals who, in the words of the memorial’s inscription, “have had a significant impact on the vitality of downtown Northampton.” The memorial, topped by a bronze sculpture of an owl by the late Greg Stone, stands near the spot of the former County Comfort store which Trager, known as the “Queen of Main Street,” founded in 1972 and operated until her death in 2011. The names of Charles “Chuck” Bowles, William A. Letendre, Duane Robinson, Gordon “Gordy” Thorne and Dan Yacuzzo, all of whom have passed in the last two years, have been added to 19 others on the base of the memorial.