■Keys to Forbes Library’s old bookmobile, a familiar sight at local schools for several years, have been turned over to Smith Vocational High School, which will use the vehicle in the carpentry home building department. It will be used to transport students and materials to various work areas. The library has a new bookmobile.
■Sheila Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher of Southampton, has been elected Valedictorian of the first graduating class of the Williston-Northampton School by vote of the faculty. Miss Fisher will attend Smith College in the fall, having been accepted under the early decision plan.
■State biologists want two species of gulls to go back where they came from — and leave the pristine waters of the Quabbin Reservoir alone. With evidence mounting that large flocks of herring and greater black-backed gulls are sullying the drinking water at the Quabbin, state environmental officials say it’s time to eliminate their major winter-time food source — garbage from local landfills.
■A foot-high bronze statuette of the late poet Sylvia Plath will be unveiled by Nicholas Dimbleby, the British sculptor who created it, in a ceremony today in the Neilson Library Browsing Room. The statuette has been jointly purchased for the college by the Mortimer Rare Book Room, where it will ultimately reside, and the Friends of the Smith College Libraries.
■The transition of the Old Creamery in Cummington to a community-owned cooperative grocery store is moving forward, after receiving a financial commitment from an area bank. “We are feeling great about the support from Florence Savings Bank,” said Kimberly Longey, who heads the Old Creamery Co-op, in an interview on Wednesday.
■Northampton health director Benjamin Wood is leaving his post in June after 2½ years to take a job with the state Department of Public Health. Wood has been tapped for a new position in the department’s Division of Prevention and Wellness, based in Northampton at the DPH regional office on Service Center Road.