■The Williamsburg Memorial Park will be dedicated “To the Men and Women of Williamsburg who helped preserve a free nation.” The town’s new memorial park will be dedicated in ceremonies on Memorial Day. The new park near the Grange Hall on Route 9 is ready for the town’s bicentennial which will be celebrated in early July.
■Miss Linda DeTurck, a St. Michael’s High School senior who wears leg braces and uses crutches to walk, is one of two outstanding handicapped students in the country to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the National Service Foundation of the American Veterans of World War II-Korea-Vietnam (AMVETS) . Miss DeTurck will attend the College of St. Joseph the Provider in Rutland, Vt., in the fall where she will study special education.
■The Northampton Property Committee yesterday reversed a decision to keep the original windows in Memorial Hall, despite the wishes of the Historical Commission. Twelve new energy-efficient windows will be installed in the 122-year-old building sometime this summer.
■A preliminary plan for possible renovation of Northampton High School has been revised to include a 9,600-square-foot addition to house a new library. The existing, free-standing library would become a computing center, under the revised plan.
■Bob Paquette, a familiar voice on local radio from his longtime work on WFCR-FM in Amherst, died this weekend. He was 55. According to officials with WFCR, where Paquette began working in 1991, the veteran newscaster died either late Friday night or early Saturday morning of an apparent heart attack.
■Some residents at Meadowbrook Apartments are not happy about their newest neighbors. Two families of black bears are making daily visits to the outdoor trash containers and other parts of the property. With the bears lingering within a few feet of the apartment complex’s playground, some residents say they are afraid to let their children go outside to play.