50 Years Ago
- Student Council officers this year at Northampton High School are: Timothy O’Leary, president; Phyllis Glowatsky, treasurer; Thomas Clark, vice president; and Deborah Macinnis, secretary.
- The Coalition to Layoff Ford will sponsor a demonstration at the Bay State West in Springfield on Friday when President Gerald Ford is scheduled to speak at a conference there. The demonstrators will be protesting unemployment, inflation, cuts in human service budgets and what they see as the President’s “pro-big business” administration.
25 Years Ago
- Firefighters returned to Great Moose Mountain in Huntington this morning to battle a stubborn wildfire that consumed 50 acres over the weekend. Huntington volunteer firefighter Dennis Nazzaro said this morning that flames flared up again Sunday night and that the department is seeking continued air support from the Air National Guard and State Police helicopters.
- From Amherst to South Hadley, voters arrived before polls opened today and lined up to select the nation’s next president. The tight presidential race and several high-profile ballot questions were expected to draw a record 3.1 million Massachusetts voters to the polls.
10 Years Ago
- Police diverted traffic away from Main Street after five suspicious packages were reported near Thornes Marketplace on Thursday. Main Street was reopened about two hours later after authorities determined the suspicious items were “related to a school project.”
- Local activists and sustainability experts view President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL project as an important economic and environmental step in reducing the country’s dependency on oil and paving the way for expansion of alternative energy. Obama on Friday denied TransCanada Corp. a permit for a 1,179-mile pipeline between Alberta and Nebraska that would have brought Canadian oil sands crude oil to the United States.