■The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus is coming to Northampton on July 5 under the sponsorship of the Lions Club. There will be tramp clowns, police clowns, Humpty Dumpty clowns, Dutch clowns, in fact, nearly every type of funster who promise to dish out the latest in laughs.
■Possible use as an office building for a division of the State Unemployment office has been cited by Mayor Sean M. Dunphy for the old Northampton Armory on King Street. It is generally agreed by City Property Committee that the building should not be sold but used for public purposes.
■Brenda Lee Hernandez, 12, of Hampton Gardens, took a big step toward achieving her dream of becoming a writer earlier this year when a poem she submitted won a first prize in the Richard A. Bove Migrant Student Poets and Writers Festival.
■Linda Knox Gibbon of Williamsburg was among 250 people who attended the Zonta International Summit on Violence Against Women last week. Gibbon is the lieutenant governor for the Zonta district made up of New England and the Atlantic province of Canada.
■When students go home on Thursday, the Mark’s Meadow School in Amherst will cease to exist as a school after 49 years of educational innovation. The Amherst School Committee has closed the school to minimize staff and program cuts.
■Preserving Amherst’s train depot and reopening Palmer’s former station could ensure that large populations of college students have access to passenger rail service and centers of recreation, including the casinos in Connecticut, advocates for the “Central Corridor” rail project say. More than 40 officials gathered Tuesday in Palmer to begin a formal campaign to advocate for the Central Corridor.