■50,000 people attended the Hatfield tercentenary parade on Sunday. After two days of rain and cold weather, the sun rose into a cloudless sky to shine on the climactic event of Hatfield’s weeklong celebration of its anniversary.
■Vincent McHugh of Pawtucket, Rhode Island has been appointed assistant food service director at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Prior to this assignment, McHugh was with the Goddard Hospital in Stoughton. He and his wife Anne and their daughter Alysa are now residing in Florence.
■Graffiti on the back of the chapel walls of the First Churches in Northampton is thought by Northampton police to be a self-portrait by a man believed responsible for spray-painting on surfaces throughout the city. This “tag” is Styles but his identity remains unknown.
■A group opposed to the domestic-partnership ordinance is hailing the City Council’s decision to place the measure on the November ballot and is working to ensure the measure’s defeat. Richard P. Connly, chairman of Northampton for Traditional Values, said yesterday that the council’s passage of the ordinance did not “accurately reflect the will of the voters.”
■Area youths could find no satisfaction on a muggy Monday at Nonotuck Park in Easthampton, where a “major” leak closed down the swimming pool just before the first day of summer camp. The Parks Department tried to fill the Olympic-sized pool over the weekend, but it was losing water fast, said Parks Director John Mason.
■Dr. Mark Novotny has been appointed vice president for medical affairs at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Novotny come to the area from Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, where he was chief medical officer, interim president and chief executive officer, and vice president for the SVMC Medical Group.