■Premature summer weather Sunday brought families to the shores of Whites Brook in Easthampton to try their hand at warm weather trout fishing. Scores of persons throughout Hampshire and Franklin counties likewise emerged into sunny near 80-degree temperatures.
■Lions Club president Peck Buckley sold the first broom of the annual spring brooms sale to Mayor Sean Dunphy. The sale will be held Tuesday evening. Residents are asked to welcome the Lions by leaving their porch lights on.
■Historian Allison Lockwood of 19 Washington Ave. was honored yesterday at the Forbes Library with the annual trustees’ award presented for outstanding volunteer service. She wrote a history of the library, “No Ordinary Man: Judge Forbes and his Library.”
■Community policing in Northampton is expected to extend into the high school and middle school next year with the assignment of one full-time “school resource officer.” The tentative job description emphasizes a “partnership” between the police and school departments.
■The Bill Dwight Show, a popular morning news program on local radio station WHMP-AM, is off the air beginning today after the host allegedly walked away from his show Monday following what the program director called a disagreement over “station policy.”
■A call to fill the post of Leeds School principal drew 24 applicants, nine of whom were eligible candidates. School Superintendent Isabelina Rodriguez said the majority of the 60 Leeds school parents who responded to a survey indicated that they’d prefer an “internal/local” search rather than a national search to fill the post.