■Architects have built a scale model showing how the new conservation center to be built at the Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary will look. The basics of the building are a small auditorium or meeting room; a Day Camp Room; an office-library; public toilets; a workshop; and a utility room.
■Northampton Superintendent John Buteau is proposing the redistricting of the seventh-grade classes at the city’s two junior high schools. Buteau says that many classes at the Kennedy Junior High had more than 30 students while classes at Hawley Junior High were smaller and had more teaching stations available.
■The woman known to television viewers as “Wendy the Snapple lady” paid a visit yesterday to South Hadley High School. The pitchwoman for Snapple beverages, Wendy Kaufman, stopped by to meet students of Richard Zagranski, who sent the drink-maker a videocassette of their own Snapple commercial.
■State education secretary Piedad Robertson yesterday hailed Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School as an educational model for the area. She urged staff to make the school a “major player” in a state “school-to-work” initiative.
■About two dozen people, including many of Armenian descent, gathered in front of Memorial Hall in Northampton Saturday to mark Armenian Martyrs’ Day, the start of the Armenian genocide on April 24, 1915.
■The Bill Dwight Show may be back on the air. Dwight, who has had a talk radio program on WHMP-AM for four years, said Tuesday he hopes to return to the airwaves next Monday, after leaving the show Monday morning following a disagreement with management at the station.