■The former Mayfair house on Center Street is undergoing extensive renovations to become the future home of Bowen and Siegel, attorneys at law.
■Sen. George McGovern, triumphant in Massachusetts, and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, the Pennsylvania victor, joined political battle today after dealing a devastating one-two blow to the presidential campaign of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. In Northampton the unofficial vote gave McGovern the predicted 2 to 1 margin hitting it almost on the nose with 2,123 to Muskie’s 1,064 votes.
■The eighth annual Florence Spring Weekend Days will be celebrated Friday and Saturday with gifts of tree seedlings, a fishing derby and a tag and bake sale. For the first time, the Florence Civic Center will participate in the weekend festivities and sales at stores, by staging a tag and bake sale Saturday.
■An audible signal will be part of the new traffic light system at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets this summer. Sounds now under consideration include a digital-sounding cuckoo bird, a “chat, chat, chat” bird call, and a woman’s voice announcing that crossing is now safe.
■Three and a half years into a program designed to get faculty and students more engaged in using its collection, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a long-term endowment for the program. The grant requires the college to raise a matching $1 million over the next three years before the money can be spent.
■Northampton officials are exploring ways to curb the feeding of bears and other wildlife, whether it is intentional or not. An ordinance working its way through three City Council subcommittees would make it illegal for people to feed “undomesticated” and “unrestrained” animals. The ordinance does not ban bird feeders.