50 Years Ago
- Northampton schools open for the new school year today. Overall enrollment in the city schools is projected to rise slightly from last fallÕs figure of 4,665 to 4,700. Projected enrollment for Northampton High School is 1,075, up from last fall’s figure of approximately 1,020.
- A $300 tuition charge has caused a sharp drop in enrollment at St. Michael’s High School, bringing the number of students there to 183. The school ended last year with 242 students. In February, the Most Rev. Christopher Weldon, bishop of Springfield diocese, indicated that the high school could face closing if the enrollment dropped below 200 students.
25 Years Ago
- Frederick Reiken and his publisher are piling up rave reviews for “The Lost Legends of New Jersey,” The Cummington resident’s second novel. The volume secured front-page book section reviews in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe and has garnered coverage in the nation’s top newspapers and newsweeklies.
- University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger will visit the Amherst campus in late September to discuss with all faculty and staff the details of a “distance learning” initiative the university system plans to launch, possibly by the end of next year. Distance learning entails everything from courses taught by professors online, through other interactive mediums such as video conferencing, or taught by a live professor in locations other than the college campus.
10 Years Ago
- A medical marijuana dispensary may be coming to Hadley. The Select Board voted 4-1 Wednesday to accept a letter of intent from Thomas Gallagher, director and president of Hampden Care Facility Inc. in Chicopee, to open a registered marijuana dispensary in Hadley.
- Last month, Barbara Arrighi, the deputy chief of campus police at Mount Holyoke College, became an eighth-degree black belt and possibly the only woman in the world to be named a hanshi, which means she is a teacher of masters, in Shito-ryu International Karate-do Kai, a Japanese form of martial arts.