■Johnny Woodward, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Woodward Jr. of Hatfield, has won the area television roll-off sponsored by the Massachusetts Bowling Association in West Springfield, where he was top man among 66 participants under 13 years old. Johnny is a member of the bowling program sponsored by the local Youth League at the Pioneer Bowling Centre Saturday mornings.
■A Hatfield native who is former U.S. ambassador to Niger in Africa was named this week to the second highest American position in the United Nations Cabinet. Robert J. Ryan was appointed assistant secretary general to Kurt Waldheim, secretary general of the U.N. Ryan will be responsible for general services.
■Fran Van Treese, who has directed the Hilltown Community Development Corp. for four years, has announced that she is leaving the organization. Replacing Van Treese as executive director will be Kimberly Longey, who has directed the business programs for the organization.
■The nonprofit group that had planned to sponsor an alternative rock concert at the Northampton Airport this summer has pulled out, sending the show’s promoter looking for another supporter. Friends of Children, of Gothic Street, has decided not to sponsor The Vans Warped Tour, a proposed concert which could attract between 6,500 and 10,000 people to the Northampton Airport.
■A mid-afternoon fire Tuesday destroyed a three-unit apartment building on Parsons Street in Easthampton. The building, which also housed the Lost Sock Laundromat, was deemed a “total loss” by Fire Chief David Mottor.
■There will be a ground-breaking ceremony for the new Amherst Survival Center building at 138 Sunderland Road on April 13 and it could open by the end of the year, said Executive Director Cheryl Zoll. The center provides about 4,000 low-income people a year with free lunches, groceries, housewares, clothes and medical care.