■Robert O’Neil of Hatfield has put the finishing touches on a sign in front of the site of the industrial park on Damon Road. About 70 percent completed, progress on the park stopped last month with snows and freezing temperatures. Work should resume in March.
■Two teenagers from the UMass delinquent rehabilitation program were sent to the Westfield Detention Center early Sunday morning after attempting to break into a vending machine on campus. The incident was the third that has occurred since Gov. Francis Sargent visited the campus last week and called the program the “most exciting thing that could possibly happen to the state of Massachusetts.”
■Air Force Airman Rachel D. Ashton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome D. Ashton of Worthington, has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. She is a 1996 graduate of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School.
■Less than two weeks after his only son was gunned down on a deserted Los Angeles highway, Bill Cosby says he’s going back to work and won’t let his son’s death change who he is. Cosby was to return to work today on the studio of the CBS television show “Cosby.” He was at work on the show Jan. 16, when he heard that his son, Ennis, had been killed.
■Their moment of intimacy wasn’t exactly private, but Southampton native Rachel Truehart said she was falling for Benjamin Flajnik after they shared a romantic date on the latest episode of “The Bachelor,” watched by 7 million viewers Monday. Truehart, 27, is one of the 11 remaining women vying to be Flajnik’s sweetheart on the reality TV series.
■The vote over a new Shutesbury library is tied — again. A recount Wednesday of the Jan. 10 vote over whether residents would approve $1.4 million in funding for a $3.5 million library project saw the town Board of Registrars throw out one vote in favor of the library, leaving the final vote tally at 522-522. The tie means the question fails.