■Armand A. Fusco has been named superintendent of schools in Hadley. Fusco, 40, who has been in the Hadley system for one year, was the director of guidance and school psychologist before his appointment by the school committee to the top position Sunday.
■The American Legion, which has been sponsoring organized summer baseball competition for decades, says long hair is out and facial hair is out. The edict has brought considerable grumbling from members of the Northampton Legion baseball team, but grumbling or not, the players are bowing to the inevitable . . . if they want to play, the hair goes.
■Hampshire College announced yesterday that almost the entire flock of sheep at the college’s Farm Center was slaughtered a month ago because of an outbreak of two contagious livestock diseases. The illnesses, Ovine Progressive Pneumonia and Johne’s disease, pose no threat to humans or domestic pets.
■Janet Travell, 95, an accomplished medical researcher who made headlines when John F. Kennedy named her White House physician — the first woman and first civilian to hold that post — died yesterday at home in Northampton.
■A local Deerfield police officer or Ashfield’s police chief could be the next leader of the Deerfield Police Department. Officer John P. Paciorek Jr. of Deerfield and Chief Patrick J. Droney of Enfield, Conn., have been chosen out of a pool of 36 candidates by the Deerfield Police Chief Search Committee as the final two candidates for the full-time police chief position.
■For the last 116 years, Southampton residents past and present have gathered once a year to picnic, enjoy entertainment and celebrate the town’s history at an August event called “Old Home Days.” But the event was canceled this year because of a lack of volunteers willing to organize it.