50 Years Ago
- Dr. David R. Jackson, president of the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, announced today that William H. Dwyer Jr., manager of quality control for Pro-Brush Division of Vistron Corp., has been elected to the chamber’s board of directors. Dwyer is a Northampton native and is the son of a former Northampton merchant.
- Jeffrey A. Schiff of Northampton has been awarded a $2,000 artists fellowships grant through the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Program. Schiff is a sculptor who works primarily with polyethylene. His creations are affixed to a wall or other surface that is perpendicular to the ground, rather than being of the free-standing variety.
25 Years Ago
- Bruce MacMillan, founder of a Main Street bookstore that embodied the creative commerce of Northampton’s renaissance, died Tuesday of cancer at his home. He was 58. In sharing stories about him, friends and writers suggested today that the greatest strength of MacMillan’s Broadside Bookshop over nearly three decades was the proprietor’s love of reading.
- The typical rumors that circulate among fifth graders worried about moving to JFK Middle School are that students get shoved inside lockers and detention is a rampant punishment. Those rumors are being dispelled through a book, “Through Our Eyes: 6th Grade at JFK,” published by one sixth-grade class. In 35 pages, replete with digital photography, the sixth graders portray life at the middle school.
10 Years Ago
- Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” After ending a three-day “Jeopardy!” playing streak Friday evening, Lisa Evans of Easthampton agreed. “This is my 15 minutes,” she said. “I don’t have any problem with it.”
- University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientist David Julian McClements is leading a team that will study whether dressings, dips and sauces have an increased potential for harm due to nanotechnology. The scientists will use a recent grant to study the possibility that eating food nanoemulsions found in dressings, dips or sauces might increase the amount of pesticides absorbed from co-ingested fruits and vegetables, thus increasing risk of adverse health effects.