■Miss Mary E. Numbers of Millington, Maryland, who retired in 1963 after a 45-year teaching career at The Clarke School for the Deaf, has returned to the campus on Round Hill Road for a week’s visit. Miss Numbers is accompanied on her visit by her brother, Fred C. Numbers Jr., who is also an educator of the deaf.
■Whether for the sport of hunting or use in drill team practice, all guns have been banned from the University of Massachusetts campus, University Chancellor Oswald Tippo said this week. The only guns allowed on campus are carried by university police.
■“Successful”was the word used by both organizers and exhibitors to describe the first annual Paradise City Arts Festival. Among the 158 exhibitors were several local artisans and crafts people, who say they appreciated the show’s proximity to home, as well as the transformation of the fairground’s arena into an upscale event.
■Two city councilors are calling a mini-town meeting this week in Florence to air three issues: a project to erect a sculpture in the village honoring Sojourner Truth, a possible future ordinance amendment that would allow businesses to put sign-boards on sidewalks, and police patrol coverage of Florence. Councilors Linda Desmond and Maureen Tobin are sponsoring the forum.
■Judge Judd J. Carhart plans to take his seat on the state Appeals Court next month after the Governor’s Council confirmed him Wednesday. Carhart, 63, of Florence, has been a Superior Court judge since 1993, and has presided over civil and criminal cases around western Massachusetts, including Hampshire County.
■Changes are afoot at the city’s emergency dispatch center, where the longtime director is preparing to depart. Melissa Nazzaro, a worker at Northampton’s Public Safety Dispatch Center since 2000 and its director for the last four years, is preparing to leave her post Oct. 22 to become Springfield’s top dispatcher.