50 Years Ago
- Responding to strong community pressure, the board of directors of the Hampshire Community Action Commission last night voted unanimously to continue the financially hard-pressed Group Daycare Program. The program operates centers in Northampton and Easthampton, serving about 40 children.
- Midge Decter will give a lecture entitled “Pride and Prejudice: A Case Against Affirmative Action,” at Smith College on Tuesday. Miss Decter, senior editor of Basic Books in New York City, has worked as an editor for many years and in several capacities, among them as executive editor of “Harper’s Magazine,” and literary editor of “The Saturday Review.”
25 Years Ago
- After several delays, a permanent shelter for the homeless in the former Elks Lodge is expected to be ready by the end of March. City businessman William Muller, who bought the building this summer, said he plans to turn the space over to the new owner, ServiceNet, a Northampton social-service agency, on March 29.
- The Northampton Fire Department, a land preservation group and city schools were among a dozen area groups and organizations to receive donations from the Wal-Mart Foundation as part of the company’s grand opening celebration of a new store in Hamp Plaza on Wednesday.
10 Years Ago
- Thirty second-graders enthusiastically marched down Elm Street on Thursday singing songs like “This Little Light of Mine.” The students weren’t actually rallying against anything. Instead, the Smith College Campus School students were taking part in what teacher Maggie Bittel says is a vital lesson about the Civil Rights movement — the collective power of individuals to create social change.
- Senior Benjamin A. Provost is being honored Friday with a special visitor at South Hadley High School. Congressman Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, will announce the nomination of Provost to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he plans to start college later this year.