■“Everything But Hear,” a 15-minute sound, color film produced by The Clarke School for the Deaf, which had its premiere showing at Sage Hall in Northampton last May, was one of seven films selected by the National Council on Family Relations for its 1971 Family Life film awards.
■More than 100 attended Russell Carrier’s campaign kickoff party Friday night at the VFW Hall in Florence. Carrier is seeking the Democratic nomination for City Council from Ward 7. Many of the city’s leading Democrats attended, including Rep. Edward A. McColgan, who served as master of ceremonies, and Mayor Sean M. Dunphy, a candidate for re-election.
■The Three County Fair will continue with its earlier start despite a slight decrease in attendance this year, its top official said yesterday. “We’re not going back,” said Bruce Shallcross, president of the Three County Fair Association. “We made the change and we’re going to stick with it.”
■“Dilbert,” the popular comic strip about office life in America, begins today in the Gazette. “Dilbert” was the most-requested comic during a reader survey conducted this summer. The strip will replace “Funky Winkerbean.”
■Michael G. Sissman, a developer whose projects helped transform the face of Northampton over the course of four decades, died in hospice care in South Amherst on Wednesday after a protracted fight with prostate cancer. He was 62.
■Objections to an experimental 2-megawatt solar array that would generate power for the University of Massachusetts campus have prompted officials to relocate the proposed project to the Hadley Farm. Officials concluded that the solar project could be done at this alternate site, instead of the 15-acre Taylor Field that, while located entirely in Hadley, abuts five homes in Amherst.