■Charles R. Longworth has been named the new president of Hampshire College. Under a new leadership arrangement, the current president, Franklin Patterson, will move from direct operating responsibility as president to the positions of chairman of the board of trustees and founder president on July 1.
■Mayor Sean M. Dunphy, Ward 3 Councilor Edward P. Gross and Ward I Councilor Edward Kochan have announced the placement of Northampton’s second mini-transfer station. The transfer station has been located in the Bridge Street Park and is available to area residents for the disposal of all rubbish. However, garbage must be wrapped or bagged.
■Former Hampshire Regional school superintendent Richard Dragon received a surprise yesterday when he discovered the town of Southampton has dedicated the new library in the William E. Norris School after him. Dragon was honored at a ceremony in the library attended by local officials and many of the teachers, administrators and staff who worked with him during his tenure.
■As cartoonist and graphic artist, William G. Duffy Jr. has been exposing his work to the public for many years. Now he is helping other artists bare their works in his new gallery, the Naked Art gallery. Tonight, the gallery will have a preliminary opening during an evening reception for its first show, “Northampton Spires.”
■Amherst College has tapped the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as its next president, marking the first time that a woman will lead the 190-year-old liberal arts institution. Carolyn Arthur “Biddy” Martin, one of the nation’s top openly gay university leaders, will become Amherst’s 19th president in August.
■Northampton’s school union called Wednesday for the resignation of the entire School Committee, saying the board’s proposal not to offer raises to school staff in the coming budget year amounted to a Wisconsin-like violation of their collective bargaining rights.