50 Years Ago
- Democratic presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, will make a campaign swing through Massachusetts, stopping on the University of Massachusetts and Smith College campuses this week. He will meet supporters in the Browsing Room of the William Allan Neilson Library at Smith.
- Northampton mayoral candidate Samuel Goldman said today that he had been considering running for mayor for about a month before he reached a decision late yesterday afternoon to announce as a Republican write-in candidate. The 36-year-old University of Massachusetts professor and local businessman said that he is running “because I think that the electorate should have a choice in the general election.”
25 Years Ago
- Co-workers of Joanne Keefe Lobdell, the city tax collector who died in July, plan to create a memorial garden in her honor. The garden is planned for the patch of grass in front of the Puchalski Municipal Building. The plan calls for a fountain that allows water to spill over rocks and into a pond.
- More than 20 people showed up for an outdoor public hearing last week to weigh in on whether the city’s Department of Public Works should cut down nine trees on Water Street. The DPW explained its plan to replace the sidewalk and, in the process, cut down Norway and sugar maples of varying ages, whose roots would be damaged during the excavation of the concrete 8 inches below the asphalt.
10 Years Ago
- The auditorium at the Williamsburg town offices was packed with a standing-room-only crowd Monday night as residents weighed in on a request for a special permit to build a Dunkin’ Donuts on Main Street in the village of Haydenville. The Dunkin’ Donuts franchise now in the Cumberland Farms in Williamsburg has purchased the former Berkshire Bank building in Haydenville with plans to relocate the business there.
- Assistant Town Manager David Ziomek is the interim Amherst town manager following Sunday’s death of Town Manager John Musante. At a regularly scheduled Select Board meeting at Town Hall on Monday evening, capping an emotional day for municipal staff and elected officials, the board, with little discussion, voted unanimously to make Ziomek interim town manager under the Amherst Town Government Act.
