50 Years Ago
- City Councilors today criticized the failure of the Northampton Redevelopment Authority to inform them of the tentative agreement to dispose of the city’s Industrial Park, and called for an explanation at tomorrow’s council meeting. Most city councilors apparently did not learn, until they heard news reports yesterday, of the plan to sell the remaining 82.3 acres of the Industrial Park to a private developer.
- The St. Regis Restaurant, a well-known downtown eatery, is planning to relocate and expand its present operations, manager Gerard Rodrigue announced today. The restaurant is planning to move from its present quarters at 28 Pleasant St., into a building at 76 Pleasant St., that was formerly owned by the now defunct Northampton Junior College.
25 Years Ago
- Twenty-three University of Massachusetts students lost their living quarters and most of their possessions in a fast-moving fire started by a candle that consumed a fraternity house Friday afternoon. “It’s a good thing this didn’t happen later,” when people might have been sleeping, said Rich Graham, a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at 778 North Pleasant Street.
- Some are eager to join the military and serve their country. Others say they would resist a draft. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the call-up of some reserves, the prospect of unexpected military service looms large in the minds of young men from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to Gateway Regional High School in Huntington.
10 Years Ago
- Executives announced Tuesday that the Big Y store on North King Street was one of five in the area targeted by hackers, and a local detective called such crimes among the biggest menaces of our time. A store official said no thefts have been reported as a result of the so-called skimming attack, in which devices are laid over an existing keypad and card scanner, mimicking their appearance.
- Reacting to social media chatter, dozens of students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Monday night took to the concourse and streets around the Southwest Residential Area with baseball bats, Swiffer mops and hockey sticks to find and fight off a clown that meant to do harm. But their hunt proved fruitless. “We have no confirmed sightings of concerning clowns,” UMass spokesman Edward F. Blaguszewski said Wednesday.