■Archrival Ed McColgan, winner of the Oil Can Derby on Saturday, breezed across the finish line with a good-natured, but nevertheless losing, Mayor Sean Dunphy following hot on his wheels. Rep. McColgan received an attractive oil can trophy for his achievement.
■Robert Storm, who has been a science and math teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf for 28 years, is the winner of the Hollis Wyks Memorial Award, which is given to an outstanding teacher of the Deaf by the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools. Last year, Storm was named a master teacher by the National Teacher Training Institute.
■Officials with the 5-year-old Words & Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art say the comic art mecca is in danger of closing. If they cannot raise $5 million, the museum “will cease to exist in the very near future,” officials say.
■Competitive Edge is closing its Hadley store after two decades of selling ski and bicycle equipment on Russell Street to make way for McDonald’s to buy the property and move its restaurant across the street. The action was expected, given McDonald’s long-standing interest in the property at 347 Russell St.
■The school bell signaling the end of the school year for Northampton elementary school students today also signals the end of Northampton Police Officer Albert St. Onge’s 18-year career as school resource officer and the start of retirement. “It’s time to start a new chapter in my life,” St. Onge said last week.