50 Years Ago
- Peter Karparis Jr., seeking the Democratic nomination for the Ward 3 seat on the City Council, said today he is most concerned with “maintaining a stable tax rate for the city.” Karparis said he is a homeowner, living at 34 Butler Place with his wife, the former Kathy Curran, and their three children, two of whom attend local schools.
- Telephone repairmen continued their intricate job of manually matching a maze of 900 wires to restore phone service to a large section of Northampton which was interrupted yesterday when repairmen accidently cut the wrong cable.
25 Years Ago
- Construction on a 79-room hotel on Atwood Drive is expected to start next spring after the Planning Board gave its go-ahead for the project Thursday. Curtis M. Shumway, chief operating officer of the Hampshire Hospitality Group which owns the site for the hotel, has said he believes the new facility will open its doors in the spring of 2002.
- City businessman and developer William Muller is seeking city permits to build 16 single-family homes, more than half of them affordable-housing units, on a 4-acre parcel on Bridge Road. Located at 408 Bridge Road, across from the Deep Woods condominiums, the land was purchased by city photographer Stephen Petegorsky, of North Street, who is collaborating on the project with Muller.
10 Years Ago
- Two months after film crews shot scenes on the grounds of the Emily Dickinson Museum for a biopic to be released next year, the same filmmakers are preparing to create a documentary — narrated by “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon — that will further explore the life and influence of the famed poet.
- Recognizing the violence that has claimed the lives of at least 17 transgender black women this year, about 60 people spent an hour walking through downtown Amherst Tuesday afternoon to bring attention to what they see as an invisible epidemic. “I know the history and if I remained silent, I would be condoning the violence,” said Ethan Bakuli, a member of the Amherst Regional High School Black Lives Matter chapter.