■Once a week in Northampton, a large trailer marked “Tripmobile” pulls into a lot on Old South Street. The mobile office is an affiliate of the Automobile Association of America and provides travel and routing information as well as membership information to the AAA. Mrs. Dawn Miller of the AAA office in Holyoke explained that the traveling office is an innovation.
■Leo Palmisano of Center Court has returned from a “successful” fishing trip at the Androscoggin River in Erroll, N.H. He was in a fishing party which included Sgt. Alvin Lebicki of the Northampton Police Department and Zeno Undzis, also of Northampton.
■A swarm of paper programs was busy fanning the flushed faces of the several hundred beaming students who packed John M. Greene Hall at Smith College Friday afternoon to watch U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg receive the first annual Sophia Smith Award.
■A two-tone cuckoo bird sound will be emitted by pedestrian signals at the corner of Main, King and Pleasant streets, the Board of Public Works decided this week. The board opted for the cuckoo bird sound rather than a chirping sound, as part of improvements to the signals at one of Northampton’s busiest intersections.
■Sports events in the public schools and at the University of Massachusetts have been rescheduled this month because of concern over exposure to disease-carrying mosquitoes after dusk. Amherst is considered at high risk for Eastern Equine Encephalitis because it borders Belchertown, where a horse tested positive for EEE recently.
■The debate over a later start time for Northampton High School continued Thursday, as school leaders decided not to move forward with a proposal that would accomplish a later high school bell by having JFK Middle School start 15 minutes earlier.