■Four city councilors have filed a resolution for tomorrow night’s City Council meeting calling for the Northampton School Committee to phase out the Academically Talented (AT) and the elementary French programs by the end of this school year. School committee vice chairman Edwin C. Warner said today the resolution marks the first time he can recall the City Council taking up a matter that would normally be considered part of the school committee’s jurisdiction.
■The committees planning for the Pleasant/River Urban Renewal Project here decided yesterday that a passageway from Main Street to the Armory Street parking lot should be constructed through the Cohen Bros. building at 118 Main St. The building is presently unoccupied since the clothing store recently went out of business.
■A Mother’s Day march will be held Saturday by the Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions, a group that opposes UN sanctions against Iraq, on the grounds that they have caused the deaths of 500,000 children under the age of 5.
■Mothers from around western Massachusetts will join the Million Mom March in Washington, D.C., to give Congress a Mother’s Day message to pass tougher gun legislation. “What better way to spend Mother’s Day than speaking out on an issue which is so important to moms,” said Carol Sharick, a mother of two from Amherst.
■State Rep. Peter V. Kocot is urging state officials to expedite the cleanup of tens of thousands of used railroad ties along the newly built “Knowledge Corridor” line, citing a potential fire hazard. The Northampton Democrat’s call for action comes after the Gazette reported earlier this week about railroad debris and the creosote-rich ties stockpiled by the thousands along tracks up and down the Pioneer Valley.
■A storage shed for Boy Scout Troop 504 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Amherst will be dedicated to late Cowls Building Supply founder Paul C. Jones, whose family requested donations in his memory go to the troop following his 2011 death.