■Construction of the new clubhouse at the Northampton Country Club started late this spring with completion scheduled for this fall. The clubhouse, which will be located at the same spot as was the original one, will have outside decks on two levels, carpeted snack bar on the second floor, and a carpeted cocktail lounge on the third floor.
■As the summer season is coming to a close, Northampton’s younger set will be treated to the third appearance of “Steel,” a group of contemporary musicians that has performed to large audiences at previous rock concerts. Pulaski Park will be the scene of this Thursday’s concert.
■As many as 3,200 people turned out for the Warped Tour at the Northampton Airport on Saturday. The day-long concert featured 15 bands-worth of extremely loud, distorted, and well-received heavy-metal grunge from groups with names like Sick of It All, Swinging Udders, L7, No Use for Name, and Sublime.
■The Lathrop Community Inc. has proposed to build about 14 units of housing on the Northampton side of Florence Road and about 80-100 units on 100 acres in Easthampton over the next five to six years.
■Amherst Community Television will lose its longtime home on College Street at the end of next August as Western Massachusetts Electric Co. reclaims the space in the two-story building it owns. Town officials, however, say they will do what they can to help ACTV find a new space, possibly in a town-owned building.
■Hampshire College’s board of trustees has named a new acting president of the liberal arts college, a decision that comes less than three weeks after Ralph J. Hexter announced plans to step down from the presidency. Marlene Gerber Fried, a professor of philosophy and director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire, will serve until July 1, 2011, when a permanent president is expected to be named.