■Construction is progressing on the new 28-story library at the University of Massachusetts. When completed, the library will be the tallest building west of Worcester. As each floor is completed the crane is moved up to the next level.
■In what he described as “probably the first program of its kind in the nation,” Inspector Edward A. Breor of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Northampton office, reported that training of students at the Clarke School for the Deaf to serve as safety patrolmen will begin tomorrow. Fifteen students selected from the middle school at Clarke will undergo three days of training.
■The University of Massachusetts has announced that it plans to auction off about 100 of its 125 dairy cows in coming months. The rest will be moved from the university’s South Deerfield farm to the former horse farm it bought from William Young in 1990.
■A small colony of rats living under the large, wooden play structure outside the Jackson Street School has forced city officials to cordon off the area. School officials have called in exterminators who have placed poison under the structure.