50 Years Ago
- James H. O’Connor has been appointed supervisor of the pressroom at The Daily Hampshire Gazette. O’Connor, 32, an employee at the Gazette for 14 years, is a native of Northampton and a graduate of St. Michael’s High School.
- Twenty-two-year-old Gary Benoit, of Northampton, a George Wallace delegate, will try to get nominated for vice president tomorrow night in order to obtain television time to air his conservative views. Benoit has obtained 75 delegates’ signatures for the vice-presidential nomination. Fifty delegate signatures are required to place a name in nomination.
25 Years Ago
- A feared $100,000 deficit in the Northampton school department budget for last fiscal year has been wiped out by a surplus in special education tuition and money saved from instituting a freeze in January on buying supplies.
- Two summer camps offerings, for gay and lesbian teenagers and for children of gay parents, have been canceled due to lack of interest. Kay Brooke-Willbanks said she and partner Elizabeth Brooke-Willbanks expected their Tapestry of Life day camps planned for Maines Field would fill a niche in the community. “We thought this year was a sure winner,” she said.
10 Years Ago
- Saying that his “voice was ignored,” Douglas Ross resigned Monday from the Northampton Human Rights Commission — the third member to step down this month and fifth in the past year. While all three members who resigned this month expressed concerns about the role of the commission, Ross claimed specifically that he was ignored by administrators and fellow members.
- After more than 13 years leading the detective bureau for Amherst Police, Lt. Ronald Young is being promoted to the department’s captain in charge of administration. Young replaces former captain Christopher Pronovost, who left the department in May to become police chief in Belchertown.