A Look Back, March 14

50 Years Ago

■The Smith-Northampton Summer School slid by in a crucial budget-cutting vote of the Northampton School Committee last night, but committee members expressed surprise to find out that the $25 tuition charged city residents for the program goes to the college, not the city.

■The Hampshire Regional YMCA is installing what is believed to be the first indoor lifeguard chair in Western Massachusetts. The chair was constructed by students at the SmithÕs Vocational High School. Plans were submitted by Benjamin S. Mysorski of the YMCA.

25 Years Ago

■After five seasons of staging performances at Look Park in Northampton, Hampshire Shakespeare Company will move its outdoor productions this summer to the Hartsbrook School on Bay Road in Hadley. The company will continue to offer outdoor performances at the Lord Jeffery Inn in Amherst, as it has in the past.

■School officials have given approval for a solar electric system at Northampton High School that would serve as a learning lab for high school students, if enough money can be found to pay for it. The photovoltaic solar-electric demonstration system, which would cost between $18,000 and $22,000, would be installed on the roof of the high school as part of the $26.3 million renovation project under way.

10 Years Ago

■Just over three months since the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School board of trustees voted to end the schoolÕs lease with the city Parks and Recreation Department, Mayor David J. Narkewicz announced plans to relocate the department to a 1,180-square-foot room in the rear of the Northampton Senior Center.

■Narcan, the nasal spray that can reverse an opiate overdose, may soon be available to addicts or their loved ones at Walgreens pharmacies in Northampton and Greenfield as part of the efforts of coalitions fighting heroin and opioid abuse in Hampshire and Franklin counties.