■“Somebody is standing on our throats. If I can’t breathe I will suffocate and die.” These remarks were addressed by Bernadette Devlin, youngest member of the British Parliament, during a talk on the Irish Resistance movement to a capacity audience Wednesday at the Curry Hicks Cage at the University of Massachusetts.
■House Bill 2990 proposing the redrawing of county lines has been returned to a special legislative committee for study and may not be acted on until the 1972 session of the legislature, Sen. Joseph DiCarlo, chairman of the Joint Committee on Counties, announced today.
■The Peoples Savings Bank, which holds the mortgage on the Log Cabin and Alpine Cafe, closed the landmark restaurant Monday. In the fall, the restaurant stopped serving lunches because only 10 to 15 customers were being served each day and decided to focus on Austrian dishes for the dinner menu.
■Despite a town-to-town effort by Holyoke’s mayor to drum up support for a casino in his city, lawmakers in other western Massachusetts communities are not buying the idea. While legislators representing Holyoke strongly back a casino, most of their colleagues in Hampshire Franklin and Berkshire counties oppose the proposal.
■Miscommunication over a downed aircraft prompted emergency workers form several local and state agencies to descend in masse at Northampton Airport Friday around noon. Turns out a pilot involved with the reported emergency was simply practicing takeoffs and landings in a small ultralight plane in a meadow beyond the runways.
■A new ground-mounted solar energy array at Mass Audubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary is providing more than 50 percent of the energy the sanctuary needs, and its location at the front entrance is intended to serve as a reminder to visitors that viable green energy options do exist.