50 Years Ago
- Some 1,050 persons rolled up their sleeves and received their swine flu shots at the Walter Salvo House on Conz Street this weekend at the Northampton Board of Health’s flu clinic for persons over the age of 65 or the chronically ill. No adverse effects were reported.
- The Northampton Planning Board has appointed Nancy Stack, 24, of Somerville, as senior planner for natural resources. Miss Stack will join the planning department in about a month, and she will work under Planning Director York Phillips.
25 Years Ago
- The Amherst Regional High School will be open today and classes will resume Friday after state health officials determined that a white powder found in the building Tuesday contained no traces of anthrax. While many suspected the powder was a hoax, the current national anthrax scare prompted school and town officials to close the building until test results were completed.
- Ward 6 City Councilor Marianne L. LaBarge, running unopposed, delivered a speech to about a dozen supporters in front of R.K. Finn Ryan Road School Monday afternoon. Standing on a carpet of fallen yellow and gold maple leaves, LaBarge talked about issues facing her rural ward after officially announcing her candidacy.
10 Years Ago
- Children of Navajo Nation and Hope Nation who attend schools in New Mexico and Arizona are receiving $500,000 worth of new books following a donation from an Amherst-based literacy organization. A total of 52,126 books are being shipped directly to the various school districts in the Southwest for distribution, said David Mazor, founder and executive director of Reader of Reader.
- A Townsend developer has pulled the plug on a $30 million housing project slated to break ground at Village Hill in Northampton this year, citing an inability to secure financing. Transformations Inc. had planned to construct a total of 83 homes on a 35-acre site at the north end of the Village Hill campus.