■Ann Hubbard, a senior at Northampton High School, has been elected by a vote of faculty and students to be the recipient of the DAR Good Citizens Award. She was chosen for her qualities of dependability, leadership, service and patriotism shown throughout her high school career.
■Mayor Sean M. Dunphy has outlined the major achievements of his first year as the city’s chief executive. Among the achievements he listed were citizen participation in city government, establishment of a youth commission, federal aid, a program to assist the unemployed, raises for municipal employees, student interns, a solution to refuse collection, reviving the Conservation Commission, and establishing a schedule of users fees.
■Spring thaw in April will bring with it groundbreaking for the new National Yiddish Book Center building on 10 acres adjacent to the Hampshire College campus in Amherst. Building the new center will mean not just a permanent home for the center, says founder Aaron Lansky, but a place for those who are interested in Jewish culture to visit and to learn.
■Last week’s storm was little preparation for the blizzard conditions that have swooped down today showing for us all what a little wind can do. During today’s storm, winds gusted to 35 knots, or 41 mph, brought visibility down to a quarter mile and at times less, creating a dangerous condition more familiar in the Arctic and known as a “whiteout.”
■Smith College will have to follow a new set of design standards for any future buildings it intends to construct along West Street. In establishing a new West Street Architecture District Thursday night, the City Council moved to wrest some control of the appearance of buildings away from the college, particularly facades that face the street.
■The bubbly was flowing and the crowd was overflowing Thursday night at Cooley Dickinson Hospital as its 125th anniversary was toasted and its future course set. The event also marked the kickoff of the “Building Our Future” campaign, an all-encompassing effort to raise $8.2 million for a new Unified Cancer Center and long-term initiatives to bolster the future of nursing.