■The 100th annual meeting of the Corporators of the Florence Savings Bank was held in the banking rooms, Tuesday, when Stanley Clark and attorney James C. O’Donnell were re-elected president and clerk of the corporation, respectively.
■The Community Health Care Project at 42 Maple St. in Florence has completed its first month of tests for venereal disease and pregnancy and has screened some 60 patients. The clinic was organized to counter what the project termed Hampshire County’s “traditional policy of talk and no action.”
■Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife officials have issued a new ruling: The beaver dam at the end of Ellington Road will come down. Only last week, state officials denied the city permission to tear down the dam, located on city Conservation Commission land.
■David Butler of Northampton arrived home Monday after a cross-country bicycling trip, through which he raised $25,000 to benefit children with AIDS. Butler, 34, pedaled into his hometown Monday, the 51st day of his bike trip. As he had all along the way, Butler decried a lack of funding for AIDS organizations and called for disease prevention education, especially among teenagers.
■Working with painstaking precision, 10 Tibetan monks from a monastery in India spent more than 20 hours this week pouring multicolored grains of sand onto a tabletop onstage at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, creating a spiritual painting they hope will promote goodwill.
■A site on Belchertown Road that could become an incubator for young farmers and where Amherst children and other residents could learn about agriculture may be purchased by the town. The effort to buy the 19-acre undeveloped parcel, owned by Robert Saul, is expected to come before fall Town Meeting.