■Snags in the title search of Northampton School for Girls property have held up the state purchase of the grounds for a proposed state mental health center. In the wake of confusion which has resulted from the snags, the Sept. 1 deadline for the school to act on individual offers to buy the property has been extended for a week, George Dunnington, business manager said.
■The Labor Day weekend will get off to a start in Northampton on Sunday with the opening of the Three County Fair and celebration of the city’s first Spanish-American fiesta. The first Labor Day parade in the history of the city will be held in conjunction with the fiesta.
■After nearly 22 years in office, Sunderland Selectman Paul Korpita has decided he will not seek re-election when his term ends in April. At the annual Community Breakfast yesterday at the University of Massachusetts, Korpita was recognized for his lengthy service to the community.
■The stalled King Street fire station project will get a push today now that four conflicting parties have come to agreement about how best to solve the flooding problem near the Barrett Street Marsh. Today’s signing at the site of the proposed new fire station on King Street by the city, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co., the state Department of Environmental Protection and three Barrett Street residents ends five months of mediation.
■The University of Massachusetts learned the hard way there’s a big difference between being a Bowl Subdivision team and being a competitive one. In the Minutemen’s FBS debut, Connecticut controlled Thursday’s season opener from start to finish and rolled to a 37-0 win at Rentschler Field.
■Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House Thursday night with a rousing, remarkably personal speech to the Republican National convention and a prime-time TV audience, proclaiming that America needs “jobs, lots of jobs” and promising to create 12 million of them in perilous economic times.