50 Years Ago
- A 57-year-old blind Pearl Harbor veteran and his wife are being evicted from the Pleasant Street apartment that has been their home for the past 19 years, and neither they nor local service agencies have been able to find them another place to live. Spokesmen for the local service agencies say that the case of William and Mildred Shroeter points up some of the difficulties that some fixed and low-income families face in finding an apartment in the area.
- Area doctors are giving a variety of advice to their patients who come to them seeking counsel about whether to get vaccinated against swine flu this year. “I’m leaving it up the individual patient. I’m not recommending it at all,” Dr. Thomas F. Corriden, a Northampton physician who has a general medical practice, said.
25 Years Ago
- The Elks Lodge, displaced when it sold its Center Street building a year ago, is poised to start building a new clubhouse on a parcel of land in Florence by next spring. The land is on the opposite bank of the Mill River from the arts building, at the rear of a parking lot at the corner of Pine and Spring streets.
- Planners of a $1 million transformation of the Look Park pool house into a banquet building will hold a party there today to celebrate the project’s completion, but they will have to wait unit Nov. 15 to learn the fate of the facility. That is when a judge will consider a lawsuit brought by a neighbor who maintains using the former pool house as a banquet facility violates the city’s zoning laws and contradicts the terms of the deed establishing the park.
10 Years Ago
- Public outcry on sexual assault has flooded the internet after audio was released of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005, saying he could force himself on them because he was “a star.” That was just “locker room talk,” Trump said. Women locally, and across the nation, have been sharing stories of similar sexual assaults, some long suppressed.
- The murder conviction of Cara Rintala prompted a domestic abuse prevention group to announce Wednesday its renewed effort to prioritize outreach and service to the LGBTQ community. Rintala, formerly of Granby, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the 2010 strangulation death of her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala.