■The newly renovated gym at the Michael F. Curtin Post 8006 VFW home was initiated Tuesday evening when the Annunciation school students played a game of basketball against their fathers. The Rev. Thomas M. Shea and Robert M. Finn were referees.
■Hampshire County Superior Court Clerk Salvatore A. Polito today told the Hampshire County commissioners that the entire Hampshire County Courthouse could be condemned and closed immediately. Superior Court Judge Henry H. Chmielinski of Weymouth inspected jury quarters earlier this week and announced that he would not take responsibility for confining either the grand or traverse juries in what he considered to be “fire traps.”
■After years of delays and complications, it’s now possible to see Westmass Development Corp.’s university-linked industrial and research park taking shape. People passing by the park on North Maple Street can see the beginnings of a road and the steel skeleton that will become the first building in the park, the $1.9-million, Mass Venture Center.
■Francis X. Callahan Jr. of Northampton, the president of the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, has left that post to take a job as a lobbyist for the statewide building trades organization in Boston. Callahan, 32, has been head of the central labor council, which represents 19,000 unionized workers, since 1993.
■The Hampshire Regional YMCA is set to open as usual at 5:30 this morning after concerns about heavy snow on the roof led to the building’s evacuation Saturday. Two large portions of the facility, located on the corner of Prospect and Massasoit streets, will remain closed at least until a structural engineer conducts an inspection.
■Two school committees, unable to agree on who should be superintendent of Amherst schools, voted to extend the contract of interim Superintendent Maria Geryk at the end of a four-hour meeting Sunday. Geryk has been interim superintendent for 11 months, and held the same position for four months in 2009.