50 Years Ago
- The line gathering behind the City Council president’s chair is getting longer. Four of the nine members of the council have indicated that they would like to have the job: Councilors William C. Ames, Frances H. McNulty, Mary McColgan, and the present council president, Robert R. Patenaude.
- Richard Bole, of Shelburne, has been promoted to executive director of 4-H Camp Howe in Goshen. Bole’s position and duties have been expanded from camp director to executive director effective tomorrow. Bole has been director of Camp Howe for the past two seasons.
25 Years Ago
- As she reaches the halfway point in her first term in office, Mayor Clare Higgins faces a year that will test her leadership, with a predicted 25 percent rise in the city’s health insurance costs that promises to squeeze city services. Reflecting on her anniversary in office, Higgins said she considers herself still in “learning mode” and that she enjoys the continuous challenge of managing a city of 30,000 with a budget in fiscal year 2001 of about $57 million.
- Ten months after fire destroyed the Paradise City Tavern at 5 Bridge St., plans to rebuild are still on hold pending a settlement by the insurance company. Property owner Joyce August said recently she doesn’t know when a new structure will go up, although she is hopeful something will replace the landmark building that stood at the corner of Bridge and Hawley streets.
10 Years Ago
- Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole and a 1972 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has died at the age of 65. UMass spokesman Edward Blaguszewski said in a statement issued Friday that Cole was “among UMass Amherst’s most talented and accomplished alumni.”
- Eunsung Lee is Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s first baby of the year, arriving a day after she was due. The 20-inch baby girl, who weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, was born at 7:40 a.m. Friday to Jiyoun Yoo, 39, and Jonghyun Lee, 41, of Amherst.