■Miss Judith Tripp will teach the Cloverdale Co-Operative Nursery School in St. John’s Episcopal Church, it was announced today. Donald Martin will work with Miss Tripp as a full-time assistant teacher.
■An all-points bulletin remains in effect for three inmates of the Hampshire County House of Correction who escaped from the yard yesterday afternoon, according to the jail’s deputy master, Merton Burt. The escaped inmates were in the prison yard at about 2 p.m. when they reportedly hopped over a fence, Burt said.
■A film about the life of Calvin Coolidge, “Things of the Spirit,” is being produced by filmmaker John Karol, according to the New York Times. Karol says he hopes his $2 million, seven-year project will cast Coolidge — who also served in the Statehouse and as mayor of Northampton — in a better light.
■Meetinghouse Books, which offers used and out-of-print volumes at its North Main Street store in South Deerfield and over the internet, opened for business last month in the building that has housed, at one time or another, a congregational church, a Sunday school, and a Masons Lodge.
■As part of the Gateways Beautification Project, metal artist Sam Ostroff has been employed to design “Welcome to Northampton” signs that will soon greet the city’s visitors at all of its major entrances. A Gateways Beautification Committee has been organized to run the project.
■Public works officials have spent weeks combing through an extensive report on Northampton’s ailing stormwater and flood control system — and the information is not pretty no matter how it’s parsed. That’s why the Board of Public Works and key officials at the DPW are weighing the pros and cons of a new enterprise fee for property owners as a means of paying for needed repairs.