■Williston-Northampton School graduates its first class next week since the Williston Academy and the Northampton School for Girls merged last fall. In the last few weeks, the sudden resignation or retirement of four top administrators indicates that not all has gone smoothly with the coeducation experiment. Yet the schools’ administrators, including Headmaster Phillips Stevens, insist publicly that the merger went well.
■Look Memorial Park will officially open for its 43rd summer season this Sunday. The picnic store, train, and pedal boats will be open to the public Saturday. The swimming pool will open at noon Sunday, with Jeff Holman, Jim Miller, Steve Harding, Mike Zmaczynski, Ed Gross, Theresa Lintner, and Janet Naumchick helping the first swimmers of the season.
■If Sen. Michael Knapik has his way, Monday would be the last Memorial Day that retail stores would be open for business. The Westfield Republican attached a proposal to a supplemental budget that would reinstate Massachusetts’ old “blue laws” for future Memorial Days.
■The University of Massachusetts is considering establishing a special center for women’s health at the university to promote lifelong “wellness” for women through education and research. The center would be run by UMass and area health professionals.
■Smith College has received a $1 million grant to support interdisciplinary courses designed to draw more women and underrepresented minority students into science fields. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Capstone Award will be spread over four years and will lead to the creation of three hands-on-classes, according to Thomas Litwin, director of the Clark Science Center and program director for the grant.
■Supporters and patrons of the Pleasant Street Theater said they were saddened but not surprised by word that the downtown theater will go dark in June. Directors of the nonprofit Amherst Cinema Arts Center, which has operated Pleasant Street since 2007, on Friday cited the theater’s small space, inaccessibility to the handicapped and outdated projection technology as reasons for the closing.