■The state Department of Natural Resources and the state Department of Health have been asked to investigate dumping of refuse near the Colonial Hilton Hotel, between Routes 5 and I-91 on property owned by Roger Atwood. Atwood said today the refuse on the site had been illegally dumped by private individuals, usually on Saturday afternoons after the city’s sanitary landfill was closed.
■The Northampton Recreation Department has announced that the fourth annual Battle of the Bands will be held Wednesday at Maines Field. Among the bands competing will be Vane, Bob and Micoacon. Joe Lucco of the Listening Post, Pete Soldats of Del Padres and Steve Toplitz of Guitar Workshop will serve as judges.
■On Friday night an invited audience of about 175 squeezed onto the stage at the Academy of Music to watch the New Lyric Theater Project’s “Myths & Hymns,” a new but incomplete work by composer Adam Guetel. Many who attended said they were wowed by the performance that included Broadway performers Audra McDonald, Billy Porter and Lillias White.
■A Hampton Avenue man’s Olympic experience took a turn toward the frightening when a bomb exploded just yards from where he was standing during a concert early Saturday in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. Jeremiah Gibber, 20, said by telephone from Atlanta later on Saturday that he still had a headache from the explosion.
■The staff of the Daily Hampshire Gazette will be honored Sept. 16 at the yearly New England Associated Press News Executives Association for work over the past year. The Gazette’s online sports section — particularly its pages covering University of Massachusetts sports and area high school sports — was named the best of all contest entries in the under-40,000 circulation category.
■Southampton Administrative Assistant Regina Shea-Sullivan will take over the duties of outgoing Town Administrator Diane Schindler today as the interim town administrator. Schindler, 42 of Greenfield, worked her final day Wednesday after she resigned to accept a job as director of regional services and planning at the Hampshire Council of Governments.