50 Years Ago
- Coeducation appears to be settling in quietly at Amherst College these days, now that 94 women have spent over a semester there. The college opened its doors to women transferring in from other institutions last fall, and next fall will be admitting its first coed freshman class, one-third of which is expected to be women.
- Organizers of the Daniel Shays Project, during an open house at the Hotel Northampton last night, outlined their plans to present an historical drama, based on Shays Rebellion, at Look Park this summer. Liam O’Brien, president of the group, told the approximately 80 people in attendance that the script for the two-act play has been completed and is “in the mail.”
25 Years Ago
- In a surprise move, Amherst Regional High School Principal Scott Goldman has announced his resignation, effective Aug. 1. “It was not any one thing for me, but a number of reasons I have chosen to move on,” Goldman said. “I looked at what I want to be doing five or 10 years from now, and there are other things I’ve thought of pursuing.”
- Anticipating reduced state aid and a large increase in employee health insurance costs, Mayor Clare Higgins has asked department heads to prepare for the worst by submitting budget requests for the next fiscal year that are 5 percent smaller than their current budgets.
10 Years ago
- City Clerk Wendy Mazza made a bold primary election prediction this week: Voter turnout will be between 75 and 80 percent. “Just from the sheer number of people voting absentee, it has been very busy in here,” Mazza said.
- A man accused of driving drunk in downtown Northampton — with a pipe bomb tucked away in the center console of his car — said he made the device for “entertainment” and that he had no intention of targeting anyone, according to police. The man said this was the first time he had made a bomb and compared it to making fireworks.