■About 350 persons braved the rainy weather and turned out to see groups from Northampton, Florence, Hatfield, Easthampton and Southampton march in the annual Veterans Day parade in Northampton. The parade route ran from Bridge Street Park to Pulaski Park, through the puddles of Bridge and Main streets.
■A Northampton man was honored last night by Northampton firefighters for heroism during a blaze in the building where he lived last March. Mayor Sean Dunphy made the presentation at the annual Fire Fighters’ ball to George Keefe, 31, of 185 Prospect Ave. Keefe is credited with saving the lives of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Keefe, 72, and his cousin, Robert Sullivan, 25, both of whom lived in the same building.
■Starting late next week, the new age of parking ticket machines will have arrived in all municipal lots. The Northampton Parking Commission has installed six new yellow ticket dispensers. After Nov. 1, all meters in municipal parking lots will have been replaced by the ticket dispensers.
■A remark about western Massachusetts made by U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren during a Sunday campaign stop in Northampton became the center of a political flap that went national on Monday. The Massachusetts Republican Party blasted Democrat Warren for saying that western Massachusetts is “not as landlocked as some other parts of the state” during an interview with the Gazette.