50 Years Ago
- H. Minor Frost was presented recently with Hampshire Personnel Service’s first employee award by Edward Porter, owner of the firm. Frost was honored for “high standards of professional ethics and representing the best interest of clients in the employment agency industry.”
- Black people who live in Hampshire County say they are generally free from the blatant forms of discrimination that exist elsewhere. But they also say that subtle forms of prejudice exist here, mainly because there has been so little contract between the races. These conclusions emerged in more than a dozen interviews conducted by the Gazette in the last week.
25 Years Ago
- School Committee Vice Chairwoman Lisa L. Minnick was re-elected to her third year in that position Thursday night. Minnick leads the committee with Mayor Clare Higgins. Committee members praised Minnick, who has been on the board since 1990, for the long hours she puts in on committee work outside of meetings.
- While at least one neighbor continues to campaign against a planned 76-car commuter parking lot on Sheldon Field off Old Ferry Road, the project is proceeding through the state approval process. “The state has approved about 75 percent of the plans,” Recreation Director Ray Ellerbrooks said of the lot.
10 Years Ago
- One of the largest solar arrays on any college campus on the East Coast is on track to be built this spring at Hampshire College, with the campus poised to become the first in the United States to have all its electricity needs met by the 4-megawatt project, according to college officials.
- The Clarion Hotel is dead, but inside the Atwood Drive building on Thursday, visitors could still find stuff that makes a hotel a hotel — bedding, coffee makers, plates, carafes and furniture. A large auction was held to dispose of much of the contents of the building which will soon be torn down.