50 Years Ago
- Northampton High School class presidents for this year are: Pam Noble, junior class president; Sara Whalen, sophomore class president; and Kathy Finn, senior class president.
- Vandals last night rolled the Forbes Library bookmobile from its parking spot behind the library and down a hill, crashing it into the Hawley Junior High School. Damage to the bookmobile was described as extensive, and Hawley principal, James McDonald said the crash moved a granite window casing several inches and cracked plaster inside the brick school building.
25 Years Ago
- As temperatures dipped into the low 30s, the city’s 7-year-old cot shelter program opened its doors to the area’s homeless people Wednesday night in temporary headquarters in the old fire station on Masonic Street. “We’re ready,” Yvonne Freccero, chairwoman of the management committee of the Hampshire County Interfaith Emergency Cot Shelter, said hours before the shelter opened its doors for the season.
- The 18-month-old master plan for transforming Northampton State Hospital into a mixed residential-commercial urban village came to life Friday afternoon. Lt. Gov. Jane Swift announced that Gov. Paul Cellucci’s office has declared the project a “pilot” in his plan to develop affordable housing. The declaration puts the 1,000 acres of state surplus property on a fast track to realization in bricks and mortar.
10 Years Ago
- Incumbents William H. Dwight and Jesse M. Adams easily defeated challenger Marc G. Warner in Tuesday’s election for two at-large City Council seats. Dwight took 3,454 votes, Adams took 3,381 and Warner took 1,426, according to preliminary results released by the city clerks’ office Tuesday night.
- Two incumbents and two newcomers claimed the four at-large City Council seats in Tuesday’s Easthampton election. Incumbents Joseph P. McCoy and Tamara L. Smith will be joined on the council by Daniel R. Carey and Margaret “Peg” Conniff.