■The New England Woven Label Co. of 12 Water St., Leeds, which has been in continuous operation since 1937, will be closed permanently sometime in mid-July it was reported by the New York-based owner of the firm. The company’s owner, whose family has controlled the plant since it was built, said “The plant’s closing is basically due to inadequate workloads.”
■Students from Clarke School for the Deaf, along with hearing children from the Hampshire County area, will have an opportunity to work and learn together at the school in a special art workshop to be held this summer. Mrs. Clare D. Rhoades, art teacher at Clarke, decided that the Art Program suffers from a lack of sufficient time for it in the curriculum.
■Healy Woodproducts, the family business that manufactured tool handles for nearly 150 years, has stopped production. David Healy, 84, corporation president, said the West Chesterfield mill’s last shipment was sent earlier this month, and the three remaining workers now are cleaning the building.
■With a pre-closing party set for tonight at the Iron Horse Music Hall — and one owner suggesting that good news may be announced — some are speculating that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle co-creator Kevin Eastman may be buying the club.
■Belchertown, Easthampton and Northampton were among 35 cities and towns named to the state’s first “Green Communities” list Tuesday, qualifying them for more than $8 million in grants for local renewable power and energy efficiency projects.
■Kevin Sahagian’s proposal to open Captain Jack’s Roadside Shack in a building on the Fedor Pontiac property in Easthampton was rebuffed last month when the Planning Board informed him that drive-up restaurants are not permitted in the highway business district. Sahagian says he is still hopeful he can get the needed approval eventually.