■While southern California beaches were being clogged yesterday during a 95-degree heat wave, most New Englanders were preparing for the third and coldest night of the year, as sub-zero readings again forced Granby schools to close, and left some Amherst residents staring in disbelief at thermometers registering 32 degrees below zero.
■The Mr. and Mrs. Club of St. Michael’s School is planning to hold its annual “Country Store” in March, under the direction of Mrs. Irving Guerin and Mrs. John Cycz, co-chairmen. “The Country Store” is the only big money-raising event held to obtain funds for both St. Michael’s Grammar and High Schools.
25 Years Ago
■With Waldbaum’s Food Mart on North King Street closing next Friday, the company plans to put a bigger supermarket in the empty Price Chopper site on King Street. The company has scheduled an announcement tomorrow at City Hall about these plans.
■The first outpatient kidney analysis center in Hampshire County will open on Conz Street, now that the city Zoning Board of Appeals has given permission to a Waltham company. National Medical Care will open the dialysis center at the site of the former location of Oliver Auto Body, across the street from the Walter Salvo House.
10 Years Ago
■South Hadley residents of all ages are working together to build up “Neighbors Helping Neighbors,” a new food pantry in town. About 100 people turned out Saturday to drop more than 2,000 bags at homes around town, seeking donations to fill the pantry’s shelves.
■University of Massachusetts astronomers Grant Wilson and Min Yun who, as part of a research team led by Peter Capak of the California Institute of Technology, have found one of the earliest “protoclusters” of galaxies ever identified — some 12.5 billion light years from Earth. The results of that research appear in the Jan. 12 issue of Nature Magazine.