50 Years Ago
- The Northampton School Committee yesterday set a top maximum salary for the new superintendent of schools, between $30,000 and $40,000. Later in the day, the school board heard city residents say that the new superintendent should be someone who is willing to try new ideas, and who also pays attention to basic educational skills such as reading, writing and problem-solving.
- Bishop Edward Carroll of the Boston area United Methodist Church has appointed the Rev. David W. Beach as pastor of Christ United Methodist Church, serving Northampton and Easthampton. Before coming to Christ Church, Mr. Beach served as pastor of nine United Methodist churches in various parts of the country.
25 Years Ago
- Three blocks of the Pomeroy Terrace neighborhood could join the ranks of National Historic Districts if a plan by the city’s Historical Commission succeeds. The commission will hold a neighborhood meeting for residents to share their opinions on the proposed nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
- Patriotic displays of the American flag have appeared all over since Sept. 11: flags hanging from front porches, attached to downtown lampposts, flapping wildly in the backs of pickup trucks traveling down the highway, emblazoning the fronts of low-cost Old Navy T-shirts and expensive Ralph Lauren sweaters. Nearly everyone wept to see flags at half-staff in memory of victims of the attacks.
10 Years Ago
- A Turners Falls photographer is going viral with a new project where women are posing nude with a strategically placed mock ballot in protest of Donald Trump’s remarks about women. The campaign, called #GrabHimByTheBallot, is in response to the now infamous comments the Republican presidential nominee made in a 2005 video, where he made lewd remarks about women.
- Some 40 protesters marched through downtown Northampton Wednesday, pledging to stop the demolition of a Tibetan Buddhist academy by the Chinese government. “We have to stop that from happening,” said Kalsang Nangpa, 21, president of the Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.