■Yale University President Kingman Brewster Jr., the commencement speaker, and nine other men and women will be awarded honorary degrees at the 100th Commencement of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on May 30.
■Young people protested outside Dickinson Building, home of ROTC at the University of Massachusetts this morning as part of the anti-war strike that went into effect today. The word “STRIKE” apparently was painted on the wall above the entrance to the building.
■The majority of Northampton’s city councilors last night expressed support of a Domestic Partnership Ordinance that would allow unmarried gay and straight couples to register as families with the city. All of the councilors except Richard J. LaBarge, Jr. of Ward 6, voted in favor of the ordinance.
■A once lackluster bell that sat in a naval storage yard in Washington, D.C., likely will make its debut in town on Memorial Day. With the help of different groups and individuals, the restoration of the 1,200-pound bell from the scrapped USS Northampton is nearly complete.
■Design flaws and construction problems will further delay the state’s Interstate 91 bridge re-construction in Easthampton, which is over budget, the Gazette has learned. The initial $11.4 million project over East Street has missed several deadlines since it began three years ago.
■The Ken Cuddeback Trail in South Amherst has been closed temporarily after a coyote twice attacked dogs being walked in the area over the last week. According to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s website, the eastern coyote moved into the central and western part of the state in the 1950s and now exists in every town except for those on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.