■Cadet Robert P. Omasta, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Omasta, of West Farms Road, is one of more than 850 cadets who have entered their junior year at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. Upon graduation in June 1974, he will be commissioned a second lieutenant and receive his B.S. degree.
■In what Hampshire County District Court officials termed the first active enforcement of Northampton’s crosswalk ordinance, six persons were fined today for failing to yield the right of way to pedestrians.
■Alcohol will be banned at all tailgate parties at University of Massachusetts football games, following news that a UMass student who died Homecoming Weekend after falling through a greenhouse roof was intoxicated at the time of his death.
■If the principal’s recommendations are approved, students at Amherst Regional High School won’t be allowed to smoke during lunch breaks, but they may be able to chew gum in class. ARHS Principal Scott Goldman is recommending that the school committee reject a petition from students to allow smoking during lunch in a designated off-campus area.
■A $1 million expansion of the Unitarian Universalist Society building at 121 North Pleasant St. in Amherst next year will provide more room for a growing congregation. Construction on the east side of the building, which will almost double its size, is due to start in May.
■Double Edge Theater has been awarded a $125,000 grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts to support the development of a new work, “The Grand Parade of the 20th Century,” as well as its touring to Baltimore, Chicago, Washington and Moscow.