Former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris, one of several candidates who hope to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, will attend the annual steak roast of the Hampshire County Deputy Sheriffs Association tomorrow night in Look Park. Harris is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
The Northampton Housing Authority voted unanimously Monday to apply for federal funds to provide rental assistance for low-income families on 50 units of existing housing. If funds for the program are approved, low-income families who generally are eligible under existing criteria for public housing would be able to seek housing in the private sector.
After a 25-year association, the Nonotuck Community School, which has cared for area children in the basement rooms in St. John’s Episcopal Church, will pull up stakes and move in the fall. The school, formerly called the Nonotuck Community Childcare Center, plans to move to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds.
The city will seek the help of neighborhood residents in developing a management plan for a 128-acre parcel of municipally owned open land off Ryan Road as part of an effort to shape another conservation area in Northampton. The plan proposed the creation of a network of trails through the area.
After more than a decade of planning, four years of construction, and $1.35 million, Easthampton’s much hyped fish ladder is operating and ending its first year of shuttling aquatic species to the upper reaches of the Manhan River. During the past year, dozens of sea lamprey, trout, schools of minnows and other species have traversed the gurgling apparatus that flanks one side of the Manhan River Dam off Route 10.
Elizabeth Santos, a self-taught mural artist and 1996 graduate of Northampton High School, has achieved a childhood dream of painting a public mural in her hometown, on a wall at Serio’s Market. Covering a 20- by-25-foot wall facing Center Street, the mural depicts the artist’s vision of a quintessential farm field, along with produce from the Pioneer Valley.