Thirty students from Mrs. Tine’s fifth grade at Bridge Street School made a tour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette plant this week, where they were shown the new high-speed electronic typesetters by Peter DeRose, production manager.
■Any comprehensive health education program which may be initiated in the Easthampton public schools will be without sex education if the recommendations of the Health Advisory Council are followed. With 55 persons present at last night’s meeting, 42 voted against any type of sex education at any grade level.
■Atkins Fruit Bowl, which has grown from a one-person farm stand to a store employing 70 workers, is undergoing a $1 million expansion to increase its building by one third. “We are bursting at the walls,” Pauline Lannon, president of Atkins Farm Fruit Bowl, said of the reasons for the expansion.
■The Iron Horse has a potential buyer, and its sale — music hall, legend and all — may come in time to halt a planned June 4 closing. Jo Thomas, a co-owner, said today that weeks of visits by people she called wildly idealistic have yielded one firm offer — and negotiations are on.
■An estimated 22,000 people will attend the undergraduate commencement ceremony at the University of Massachusetts on Saturday, meaning roads in and around Amherst will be busier than usual during parts of the day. 4,200 students will receive degrees at the Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
■Elaine Yeskie is coming home. Five months after arson destroyed her home and killed her husband and son, the Fair Street resident will watch this summer as a new home rises from the ashes of that fateful December night.