50 Years Ago
- Patrick M. Goggins, director of recreation for the city of Northampton for the last eight years, has resigned, citing lack of cooperation from the mayor and the City Council. Goggins, who is 28, will join the insurance and real estate firm of Woodward, Law and Grinnell of Northampton.
- Members of a subcommittee of the Northampton School Committee said last night for the second time in three months that they do not want to pay for busing students to private schools outside the city. Parents of students who attended St. Michael’s Schools want the city to pay for transporting them to a parochial school in Easthampton.
25 Years Ago
- After months of wrangling by city and state officials on how best to bring bicycles and pedestrians across Damon Road at the terminus of the Norwottuck Rail Trail, the state Highway Department said Thursday it will fund the design of a bridge or tunnel at the site and a study to evaluate a temporary pedestrian-activated red light at the crossing.
- The town of Amherst has new bragging rights. According to the word mavens at Oxford English Dictionary, the word “eco-feminism” made its print debut here on March 17, 1980, in an article and headline in the former Amherst Morning Record.
10 Years Ago
- “Happy Birthday to me!” announced Sylvia Fuchs with a wave of her hand, as she walked into a room full of family and well-wishers for her 102nd birthday party Tuesday. Fuch’s birthday was an especially noteworthy one; at 102, she is now the oldest living resident of the town of Amherst.
- Proponents of a planned medical marijuana dispensary on Russell Street in Hadley may have to find another location amid concerns that the project would be too close to a nearby mosque where children will gather. Those concerns led the town’s Planning Board to deny a special permit for the Happy Valley Compassion Center planned for the former Sunoco station at 457 Russell St.