■Twenty-three of the twenty-eight stories are completed on the new University of Massachusetts Library, which authorities expect will be completed by the summer of 1972. The facility will have an ultimate capacity of 2.5 million volumes.
■Barry Fogel, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Fogel, was elected president of the Northampton Chapter of the United Synagogue Youth Group for the second year in succession at the annual meeting Sunday night at the Congregation B’nai Israel synagogue.
■State Rep. William Nagle Jr. was named House majority leader yesterday, completing a leadership shake-up that gives Hampshire County political clout in the Legislature unprecedented in this century.
■The Starpoint Club, a rehabilitation and social program for people who have a mental illness, is losing its director and getting a new home. Robert Veronelli, director of the club since 1993, will leave his post in June to pursue research and write a book about baseball. In July the club will move from the Sullivan Square building to 50 Pleasant St.
■Northampton High School students had to wait 20 minutes past the final bell to leave the building Friday, after police ordered a lockdown. The cause was an apparently false or mistaken report about someone with a gun approaching the school.
■It’s a milestone worth celebrating, and that’s just what supporters of a long-held vision to conserve the former Bean and Allard farms will do at a special groundbreaking event Sunday afternoon. The event will mark the permanent conservation of the farms along the Mill River.