■The Northampton Drug Steering Committee’s general fund is $250 greater because of the Northampton Bridge Club. Officials of the club, who donated the proceeds from a charity game, stated “that the money may be put to any use as seen fit by the Drug Steering Committee.”
■John J. Rockett Jr. of Leeds was unanimously selected as the new principal of Florence Grammar School last night. Rockett has been elementary physical education supervisor for the public schools, civics instructor and guidance counselor at Hawley Junior High School and has served as guidance supervisor for the city’s elementary schools since 1967.
■Northampton’s Sidewalk Sale Days begin today, launched by the annual Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce Pancake Breakfast. From Thursday morning through Sunday, merchants will take to the streets in a revved up mid-summer effort to lure shoppers downtown.
■“Coed Naked” T-shirts may be offensive to some, but school officials can’t ban them as they did in South Hadley, the state’s highest court has ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ruled for two brothers who sued the South Hadley schools three years ago, after one of them refused to remove a T-shirt considered offensive by a gym teacher.
■Calling it an “amazing solution” to a difficult and emotional problem, the co-owner of Pleasant Street Video said Monday that most of the store’s 8,000 films are moving permanently to Forbes Library. The store announced that a fundraising effort by customers has raised close to $60,000 in the past few weeks. The money will enable the store to pay its debts and transfer its unique collection to Forbes.
■Parents and school officials are taking the summer months to develop a strategy to improve safety at pedestrian crosswalks near Northampton High School. In the past five months, two pedestrians have been struck by cars in the Elm Street crosswalk — one of three walkways near the school.