50 Years Ago
- Hampshire County was in step with the rest of Massachusetts yesterday, as it supported Jimmy Carter and local incumbents and voted down most controversial ballot questions. Carter received 60 percent of the county vote, while President Ford had 37 percent, and independent Eugene McCarthy got 3 percent.
- Jacob “Jack” August, 72, of 28 Gleason Road, a local restaurateur for 34 years, died yesterday in The Cooley Dickinson Hospital. He was the husband of Eva August and in 1935, they started the operation of Jack August’s Original Seafood Restaurant at 5 Bridge St. When they retired in 1969, they sold the business to their late son, Howard August.
25 Years Ago
- To celebrate a rare theatrical showing of “Mary Poppins,” hundreds of people are expected to turn out Sunday night for the final event in the Northampton Film Festival — many of them in costume. By 7:30, the staff of Impress Inc., which is sponsoring the showing with Disney Magazine, will be roaming the theater, looking for costumed candidates for a slew of prizes.
- Partners Alex D. Ghiselin, Ward 5 City Councilor, and Diane J. Walter, a School Committee member, “both dedicated to the city and various issues of grave importance,” have won the Northampton Democratic City Committee’s Democrat of the Year award. “They’re very hard workers, both of them,” said Marilyn Richards, an executive officer of the Democratic City Committee.
10 Years Ago
- Voters in 24 communities that make up the Hampshire-Franklin state senate district will decide Nov. 8 whether to re-elect Amherst Democratic State Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg, a state senator since 1991, or send South Hadley Republican Donald B. Peltier, a newcomer to state politics, to Boston.
- The Northampton City Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday in support of the state’s stalled Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would grant pregnant women rights to “reasonable temporary” workplace accommodations.