■The controversial open campus plan for Northampton High School was defeated last night by a voice vote of the Northampton School Committee but will be the subject of debate at the next scheduled meeting as member Bernard V. Tobin called for a “minority reconsideration” of the vote.
■Although yearlong efforts to sell space in Northampton’s industrial park have come to naught and most of the $2 million to create it has been spent, members of the Northampton Redevelopment Authority are doggedly optimistic that the park will eventually attract industry to Northampton, and soon.
■Eight parcels of some of the city’s most prime commercial property will go on sale at the end of the month. The property to be auctioned off is just to the north of Super Stop & Shop, bracketed by 242 King St., now occupied by Radio Shack, and 280 King St., the address of Toyota Lincoln Mercury of Northampton.
■The city schools’ food service program is “teetering on the brink of bankruptcy,” its director, John P. Feeney, warned the School Committee last night. The program, which traditionally has been self-supporting, just ended its worst financial year in two decades.
■Pioneer Valley Hotel Group plans to build a convention center at the Hadley Village Shops site on Russell Street, the group’s president said Wednesday. Shardool Parmar said the company hopes to begin construction on the approximately $1 million facility within the next 30 days.
■After several years in the doldrums, the Hampshire County real estate market is showing more pep in 2012. In April, May and June, there were 293 sales of single-family houses in the county, compared to 224 in the second quarter of 2011, a 31 percent increase, according to the Realtor Association of Pioneer Valley.