■A six-foot model helicopter that will buzz Main Street, a five-story jump from the top of a building into the parking lot of McCallum’s, prizes, a barbershop quartet, and an accordion band are just some of the highlights of a three-day trade and home show which the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring this week.
■Five Northampton High School students participated in the 24th state Music Educators Association All-State Conference and Concert in Chicopee recently. Playing in the all-state band were Thomas Gotwals on trumpet, Christopher Bagg on clarinet, David Laband on bassoon, and Claire Murphy on trumpet. John Unsworth participated in the all-state chorus.
■A traffic light will be installed at the intersection of Route 66 and Florence Road this year, despite another year of delay in the reconstruction of Route 66. The intersection, about two miles west of downtown, has been the scene of several fatalities and other serious accidents over the years.
■At least 14 activists from the Western Massachusetts Global Action Coalition were among roughly 200 still in Washington jails Friday pressing for a set of demands. The so-called jail solidarity, a form of civil disobedience, seeks to have all charges against protesters limited to a traffic violation, sentences reduced to time served and no fines, probation or restitution for those arrested.
■An unpublished letter describing an account by a Deerfield militiaman of the principal battle of Shays’ Rebellion sold at auction last week for $35,000. An unidentified private collector bid on the 228-year-old letter written by Epaphras Hoyt to his brother, Seth, in Deerfield.
■Amherst officials say the decision to drop a large-scale solar array proposed for the capped landfill off Belchertown Road is due in large part to a lawsuit filed by neighbors and the delays it caused since the project was first announced more than four years ago.