50 Years Ago
- Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and his friends drew an estimated crowd of 10,000 yesterday to help raise about $30,000 for the Worthington Health Association. Guthrie and Chicago songwriter Steven Goodwin highlighted the five-hour concert.
- Mayor Sean M. Dunphy has announced the appointment of the marketing advisory committee for the Northampton Industrial Park. The committee, a group of local business and civic leaders, will work on preparing a marketing plan for the park, which has been virtually empty since it opened three years ago.
25 Years Ago
- A Bridge Road man has filed a lawsuit against the city to block its plans to transform the Look Park pool house into a banquet facility and community center. The suit, filed Monday in Hampshire Superior Court by Edwin Warner, maintains the project should not have been permitted by the city’s Planning Board because it violates the city’s zoning laws.
- Students from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School are helping move a large play structure at Nonotuck Community School on Elm Street this week to the center’s new home on the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds. The preschool is moving officially Oct. 13 from the basement of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
10 Years Ago
- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally Saturday at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. Campaign officials estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 would attend Saturday’s event. Final attendance estimates provided by MassMutual Center staff came in at 5,700 to 6,000.
- Residents at a Ward 3 association meeting Sunday gave their support to a restoration project for the city’s oldest cemetery. Bridge Street Cemetery contains gravestones dating to the 17th century. The Rev. Jonathan Edwards and his grandfather, Rev. Solomon Stoddard, are buried there.