■Tonight’s edition of the weekly radio series “Forward Northampton” will feature three representatives of St. Michael’s School in Northampton, who will discuss the past, present and future directions of the school and the necessity to charge a tuition fee for the coming academic year.
■Trustees of the Smith’s Vocational High School voted last night to endorse five new academic programs for its expanded facilities. The school, which is now planning to build an estimated $5.7 million new main building will add these programs: data processing, culinary arts, cosmetology, electronics and graphics-printing.
■Mayor Clare Higgins on Tuesday gathered people from departments that receive big shares of city spending for a heads-up about money. She and her finance director, John Musante, cautioned that finances remain tight. “Part of the reason I wanted to do this is because the hip bone is connected to the thigh bone,” Higgins said of the unusual session.
■A Northampton police detective will head to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., next week to hone her skills as the city’s composite sketch artist. Detective Anne P. McMahon is one of a dozen United States law enforcers who along with two others from Australia and Canada have been selected to attend the three-week course on “forensic facial imaging.”
■Will the whitewater slaloms of the 2024 Olympics take place on the Deerfield River? That’s the hope of local outdoor enthusiasts, and of Congressman Richard Neal, who is pushing for “regional equity” in Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympics.
■The bishop for the Diocese of Springfield says Cathedral and Holyoke Catholic high schools will be merged for their long-term financial stability, but the location of a new school has not been decided. Bishop Mitchell Rozanski made the announcement Monday as the western Massachusetts diocese considers whether to rebuild at the Springfield site where Cathedral High was severely damaged in the June 2011 tornado.