50 Years Ago
- Renovations have begun at 76 Pleasant St. for the new St. Regis Restaurant. The building was formerly owned by the now defunct Northampton Junior College. The St. Regis, now located at 28 Pleasant St., is planning to open at the new quarters sometime next month, the manager has said.
- Ray Ellerbrook, who came to this area on a basketball-baseball scholarship to the University of Massachusetts and chose to stay here after graduation, has been named Northampton’s new recreation director. Ellerbrook, who has been recreation director in Easthampton for more than a year, will take over the Northampton post in a few weeks.
25 Years Ago
- About 20 members of Students for a Peaceful Response gathered outside Wright Hall to protest the CIA’s recruitment of Smith students. After distributing pamphlets, they entered the information session wearing paper bags on their heads and carrying signs. “We’re here to educate people about what the CIA really does,” said Rachel Jennings, a senior from Bristol, Conn.
- The city soon will install about a dozen bike racks in Florence Center and four in front of the Bridge Street post office, said Guilford Mooring, assistant director of the Department of Public Works. While the racks’ installation are imminent, the department is “in a state of quasi-flux” and cannot commit to major changes to make the city more bicycle-friendly, said George Andrikidis, DPW director.
10 Years Ago
- Just minutes into Eric Nakajima’s first meeting as a member of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee Tuesday, his fellow board members voted unanimously to appoint the Amherst resident as chairman.
- More than 100 members of the public gathered Tuesday night to express opinions and show support for their respective sides during the first school board open forum on the Turners Falls High School Indian mascot. The meeting was at time tense, but mostly cordial between those who wanted to keep and those who wanted to get rid of the school’s mascot.