■An opportunity for area residents to inspect the new clubhouse at the Northampton Country Club will be offered during an open house on Sunday. Completed earlier this year, the ultra-modern but functional building represents the dream of a lifetime for many longtime club members.
■Two new refuse-transfer stations will go into operation Sept. 1. One of the new stations will be in the center of Florence, another will be on Old South Street. However, if residents continue dumping improper materials in the refuse stations, there’s a good chance that the two new stations, along with the present stations at the DPW yard and on Bridge Street, will be discontinued.
■Three of seven operating rooms at Cooley Dickinson Hospital are now closed, after a fungus that can cause infection was found in two of the rooms and was suspected in the third. Aspergillus, a common airborne fungus that grows in damp areas, poses no danger to healthy people but can cause infections in people who have weak immune response systems.
■Sound & Music, annually rated the area’s top stereo store in the Valley Advocate’s readers’ poll, has a pair of new owners and a new name. The new owners are Gene Ritvo of Weston and Ralph Spear of Cambridge. And a sign hanging outside the Pleasant Street store will soon reflect its new name, Northampton Audio.
■Western Massachusetts’ only lab for weighing and testing illegal drugs seized by local law enforcement is about to close, creating a problem for police. Because of budgetary woes, Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration plans to shut the lab, located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, by Sept. 30.
■Charlene Nardi will serve as the new town administrator for Williamsburg after the Select Board chose her from a field of five candidates on Aug. 10. Nardi will replace Steve Herzberg, who served as Williamsburg’s first town administrator from 2008 to 2011.