A Look Back, Nov. 26

50 Years Ago

■Mrs. Charles Glickman was honored by members of The Cooley Dickinson Hospital Auxiliary, volunteers and colleagues at a recent tea in the McCallum Residence. After 15 years of service, Mrs. Glickman has resigned as director of volunteer services at the hospital. She is moving to the Midwest where her husband has accepted a new position.

■Urban renewal planning for Northampton is expected to move into its “creative” stage tonight at the board of public works building on Locust Street, as the newly appointed redevelopment steering committee meets for the first time. Current redevelopment plans call for an expenditure of about $3.9 million to give a “facelift” to the downtown area south of Main Street, east of Pleasant Street and west of Conz Street.

25 Years Ago

■Kathleen O’Neill Alexander, director of education and outreach for the Northwestern district attorney’s office, has been named 1999 Woman of Achievement by the Hampshire County Business and Professional Women. The group said it chose to honor Alexander for the work she has done in Hampshire and Franklin counties to prevent crime.

■The Valley Advocate plans to depart a Hatfield mill building and is looking for a new home for its operations. Publisher Kathy Nylic confirmed this week the 26-year-old newspaper will move from its present location at 87 School St., but she doesn’t yet know when the move will come or where the paper will next operate.

10 Years Ago

■Hundreds gathered outside City Hall in Northampton Tuesday night to express outrage over Monday’s grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, and decry what they described as a legacy of racism in policing and the criminal justice system. The hour-long demonstration was among the largest here in recent memory and featured about a half dozen speakers.

■Jane Lucia, a seventh-grade life science teacher at The Williston Northampton School, is the 2014 Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher of the Year. Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom is a non-profit organization in Seekonk founded in 1983 to provide agricultural education and training across the state.