■Sometime next week Richard Dukeshire will decide whether to come back to coaching basketball and teaching physical education at Northeastern University or staying in Greece coaching the Greek Olympic basketball team. Dukeshire, a former basketball and baseball standout at Northampton High School, has been on a leave of absence from Northeastern where he has taught and coached for 12 years.
■The Regional Recycling Center at the Department of Public Works yard on Locust Street has collected almost 18 tons of clear glass in its first month of operation, and about 40 tons of paper. The first load of crushed glass, 35,500 pounds of clear glass, left the DPW this morning for the Glass Container Corp. in Dayville, Conn.
■The mayor is looking for another employee, after Jason C. Harder left Mary L. Ford’s office in search of another job. Harder, 29, who had been working in Ford’s office as a clerk and receptionist for two years, said he left to look for work more to his liking.
■Joseph Campbell, who as president of Community Enterprises Inc. for nearly two decades brought people with disabilities into mainstream jobs, has resigned to take a job in California. In 17 years, Campbell has taken Community Enterprises from a $600,000 operation at the former Northampton State Hospital to a $11 million two-state agency that includes a for-profit subsidiary.
■When they walk through the doors of Northampton High School next fall, students will have a new voice. The newly formed student senate will have four representatives from each grade level who will work with administrators, teachers and parents to promote “meaningful student involvement in school affairs,” according to the group’s preamble.
■Buckland and Shelburne town officials met Tuesday with production managers who will be shooting local scenes next week for “Labor Day,” a movie starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. Although it won’t be called Shelburne Falls in the movie, one of the key scenes in this coming-of-age story will be the image of the main character, a 13-year-old boy, riding his bicycle through the village.