■Work on the new nature center at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary is progressing despite difficult conditions presented by the sub-zero temperatures and snow the past few weeks. With progress being made on the walls, indications are that construction will continue according to schedule.
■“Spring has Sprung” is the theme for a festival of spring fashions to be presented by the Northampton High School Senior Tri-Hi-Y. Spring, summer and cruise fashion wear will be modeled by the girls. A special attraction for mothers will be children modeling a number of new fashions.
■More than a year after University of Massachusetts trustees voted to name the anonymous tower library after civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois, an official naming ceremony and dedication will be held on campus next week. The library houses the largest collection in the world of Du Bois’ papers, much of the archive donated by his widow, Shirley Graham Du Bois, in 1973, when she was a visiting professor here.
■A fire discovered by an Amherst College music professor last night ravaged the inside of a major portion of the college’s observatory, blackening one of the building’s two domes. But Amherst firefighters stopped the blaze before it could spread through a hallway to the second and larger of the domes, which houses the observatory’s main telescope.
■The OnCall Urgent Care Center, which has done business on Locust Street for the past three years, is moving to a larger facility nearby to expand capacity and services for patients. Medical Director Louis Dukin said the center expects to be running at its new location, 6 Hatfield St., by the middle of March.
■Timely planning and teamwork among various city departments prevented significant roof damage to 19 Northampton municipal and school buildings, following a series of brutal storms in recent weeks. Over a seven-day stretch, a team of city staff and private contractors tossed some 3,000 tons of snow from the roofs — mostly by shovel but also with the help of cranes.