■The Northampton Lions Club has donated a new media mobile to the Forbes Library. The club donated the $5,800 vehicle, which will include paperbacks, films, film strips, slides and photographic equipment. The vehicle will be available to elderly and handicapped people as well as other residents throughout Northampton.
■If all goes as planned, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare comes through with a grant for $84,000, Hampshire County may have two family planning clinics operating by August. The grant application is the result of a yearlong effort by a number of local citizens, primarily women, seeking to provide services to an estimated 3,500 women in the county who want subsidized family planning facilities.
■Florence’s new ZIP code is not sitting well with everyone. The creation of the new 01062 ZIP code, which was expected to please the estimated 5,000 people living in Florence, a village within the city of Northampton, has angered some residents who now find themselves with a Florence address when they previously had a Northampton one.
■The Rev. Judith J. Kohatsu, an advocate for homeless people in the community, has resigned as pastor of Christ United Methodist Church to take a position in Andover. The church’s new minister will be the Rev. Peter Hey, who previously served in a church in Norwood. Hey will begin July 6.
■The Massachusetts Appeals Court next week will hear a challenge to a judge’s decision to throw out two votes in favor of the proposed $3.5 million library in Shutesbury, rekindling the possibility that it could be built following eight months of contentious debate.
■For more than a decade, suggestions have abounded for how to get several marble tablets recognizing more than 300 Civil War soldiers from Amherst, including 21 black soldiers from the famous 54th Regiment, back on public display. In the next several months, these monuments may be returning to Town Hall, the building from which they were removed during renovations in the mid-1990s.