■Residents of Florence Road and Scanlon Avenue have put up a sign warning boys and girls not to fish or play in a local brook. Residents have long complained to city officials about the sewage from an overflow on city sewage lines in the past. The Northampton Conservation Commission has also urged city and state officials to clean up the Florence Road-Scanlon Avenue brook.
■State Rep. John Olver, D-Amherst, will announce tomorrow in Northampton his intention to try to make the jump from the House of Representatives to the Senate branch. Olver, 35, is going to run as a Democrat against Sen. John Barrus, R-Goshen, 47, who has served two terms in the Senate and two in the House prior to that.
■Tapestry Health Systems Inc. is the new name of the Family Planning Council of Western Massachusetts Inc. The new name, reflecting more than the family planning services the agency now offers, was registered with the Secretary of State’s office April 8, a spokesman said today.
■The names of four finalists for the job of principal at Northampton High School have been announced. The four are: NHS vice principal Frank E. Tudryn Jr.; Ellen W. Eckman, of Wisconsin; Charles A. Patterson, of North Carolina; and C. Stephen Collins, of West Newbury, Mass.
■After almost two years of detailed planning and aggressive fundraising, the Old Creamery Co-op is moving this week to purchase the privately owned Old Creamery Grocery in Cummington. On June 3, the cooperative announced that all fundraising for the purchase and renovations of the store and grounds had been completed through a combination of bank and owner financing, grants and gifts.
■Not even a librarian’s hush has been able to keep things quiet at Forbes Library during the $180,000 worth of renovations to the Doland reference room. The room is being updated with new furniture, new carpeting and new wiring that will support new computers and provide more outlets.