50 Years Ago
- Northampton District Court Judge Luke F. Ryan yesterday imposed the maximum sentence on a man arrested on Oct. 13 across from Northampton High School on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The man was sentenced to two years in the Hampshire County House of Correction and fined $5,000.
- J. P. Stevens Co. has donated the United Elastic Glendale and Support Hose factory building at the corner of Cottage and Union streets in Easthampton to the Riverside Industries, a sheltered workshop for handicapped residents of Hampshire and Franklin counties. Riverside will use an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 square feet and rent out the rest for warehouse space.
25 Years Ago
- When the new La Cazuela restaurant opens at 271 Main St., sometime in December, visitors will notice a lot has changed from the current space at 7 Old South St. In the hands of soon-to-be new owners, longtime chef Jody Sieben and her husband Dan Mason, the space will be festive and colorful, they said. Customers will be able to sit at a curved bar made of smooth concrete and a mural painted by a local artist will grace the wall.
- Super Stop & Shop customers can expect to fill up their tanks at a new self-service gas station in the supermarket’s King Street plaza by early December, with work under way this week on the new facility. The city gave a go-ahead for the project in May, despite neighborhood concerns the gas station will threaten nearby wetlands and will disturb residents because of noise from nighttime fuel deliveries.
10 Years Ago
- A new restaurant specializing in Japanese food will be coming to a storefront that has been vacant for more than a year in downtown Amherst. Ichiban restaurant will be locating at 104-106 North Pleasant St., most recently the site of All Things Local, which closed in October 2015.
- Following their return from a U.S. Department of Education conference on diversity and equity last week, interim Superintendent Michael Morris and Amherst School Committee Chair Katherine Appy are already working to implement some of the things they learned at the two-day event. The pair attended the School Diversity in Action: Strategies for Increasing School Diversity and Fostering Equitable School Environments in Washington, D.C.