■The Neighborhood Youth Corps will hold a dance Saturday at the People’s Institute. Rastus, a Northampton rock band, will play. Band members Kim Rescia, Tom Lenahan, Roland Parento, and Rich Briere have all played in other bands prior to forming Rastus.
■The Northampton High School Debating Team continued to hold second place in the Connecticut Valley Debating League by sweeping four debates at Minnechaug last week. Coached by Miss Margaret Tudryn of the Northampton High School history department, the team debating last week was Jamie Dahlberg, Jon Roche, Barbara Lewy, Seth Dahlberg, and Geoffrey Kitely.
■Over 300 residents turned out Saturday at the Anne T. Dunphy School in Williamsburg to celebrate the Meekins Library’s 100th birthday. The program, which mirrored the library’s original opening ceremonies, featured music from the last century performed by residents and students, talks about the town’s history, games and a potluck supper.
■Ed Maltby has announced his resignation as manager of the farm at the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. The 44-year-old English-born husbandman, who five years ago was greeted as the savior of the school’s bankrupt farm operation, delivered a terse letter Friday to school Superintendent Raymond C. Cooke.
■The 13 University of Massachusetts students arrested during the on-campus disturbances following Sunday’s Super Bowl are expected to be disciplined by the dean of students office as soon as possible. The students were arrested on charges including disorderly conduct, inciting a riot and failure to disperse from a riot.
■Northampton school leaders are beginning to use a new statewide teacher evaluation system that for the first time links teacher performance ratings to student test scores. Northampton is among the federal “Race to the Top” districts that are required to have the system — which also applies to administrators — up and running by next fall.