Preliminary designs for Pulaski Park released yesterday show the park with a performance area, a planter for shrubs, and improved walkways. Final designs are expected by the end of the month, and work is slated to begin in September.
The silent flight of a glider, the precision of Karate and the beat of German music will all be part of the sidewalk sales days planned by the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce for July.
Math teachers taking courses this summer are balking at taking a pilot version of the state-mandated test education officials want to administer for real later this year. The Board of Education decided in May to test all math teachers from districts where a high percentage of students failed the math portion of the MCAS exam.
The 2-year-old, city-based Prison Book Project at long last has a home. Members say they hope having headquarters — in a basement room in the First Churches at the corner of Main and Center streets — will give them the sense of permanence that will enable them to undertake more projects in prisons and jails.
Now that court documents reveal that a former crime lab chemist may have tampered with drug samples for much longer than state officials originally represented, Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan estimated about 2,000 local cases could be impacted by the “debacle.” “The Professional investigative work by law enforcement and prosecutors to hold drug traffickers accountable has now been put in peril,” said Sullivan.
With more people expected to take to the highways than in the past eight years, according to an American Automobile Association projection, the Pioneer Valley has some new tourist-oriented signs to guide them. The “way-finding” signs, which have gone up over the past three weeks along the scenic byways in Franklin County, depict the Mohawk Trail’s “Hail to the Sunrise” statue and the region’s appealing hills, winding roads, waterfalls and farms.