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By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Members of the Recreation Commission were briefed last night on developments in the search for sites for a state skating facility in Northampton. The two “primary” sites that DNR representatives would be asked to review are a site behind...

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

NORTHAMPTON — Tucked on the steep hill of Crafts Avenue across from City Hall downtown, Taipei Hibachi is trying to make a new name for itself.Inside the newly opened hibachi restaurant, a renovated open floor plan invites customers to a counter...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Amid the crackle of musket fire, the pounding of cannon and patriotic music, nearly 10,000 people witnessed the Battle of Look Park yesterday. Under cloudless skies and bathed in warm sunshine, the program was organized by the Sixth...

By Naomi Scully-Bristol

NORTHAMPTON — The Friends of Forbes Library will be hosting its third annual Artisans Fair this Sunday, with 46 artisans, food trucks and musical groups for the community to come out and enjoy.“It’s a nice event, and family friendly,” said Martha...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■N. White respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has removed from Williamsburg to Northampton and has taken a room nearly opposite the Town Hall, where he will manufacture and sell double bass, bass, and tenor viols;...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — The four women leading an evening of collective prayer, song, dance and storytelling began by placing pinches of cool soil from two wooden bowls into the cupped palms of audience members.In one bowl, the members of the...

By Naomi Scully-Bristol

NORTHAMPTON — Not many garden gnomes have gone skydiving, climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, and been the best man at a wedding, but it is all in a day’s work for Captain Ahab, a wooden fisherman who travels the world.Geeg Wiles, who is from...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The Northampton Board of Health last night voted to order the Food Mart store on King Street to remove all chicken and tuna salad from its shelves by Monday. David Kochan, sanitarian for the board, said the food preparations were...

By Naomi Scully-Bristol

NORTHAMPTON — A whimsical celebration of community, the DoozyDo parade returns this Saturday for the third year running with fun costumes, marching bands, and Gertrude, the gargoyle mascot.“It’s about bringing people together, and celebrating...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Samuel H. Lovejoy, the 28-year-old Amherst College graduate who last February claimed he toppled a 500-foot Northeast Utilities weather tower in Montague as an act of civil disobedience, goes on trial tomorrow in Franklin County Superior...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Died, at Westhampton, on Thursday last, widow Eunice King, in the 90th year of her age. She had been confined to her bed about 40 years, and a corrosive cancer, which began upon her lip, had gradually extended over her face, presenting...

By Jacob Nelson

Three people. Two businesses. One piece of farmland. Countless ways that climate change is making farming harder.And yet plenty of hope, because these farmers have a plan. With support from peers, nonprofits, and even Uncle Sam, they’re building...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Today is children’s day at the Three County Fair but they’ll have a hard time equaling the number of children and adults who attended the fair Labor Day weekend. A total of 35,706 paid their way into the 157th annual Three County Fair...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Bus service for Hampton Gardens children attending Vernon Street School will not be provided despite threats by Hampton Garden parents of a school boycott. Mayor Sean M. Dunphy, chairman ex officio of the Northampton School Committee,...

By SAM FERLAND

ASHFIELD — The Selectboard plans to decide on and fund a solution to remove invasive species from Ashfield Lake in fiscal year 2026.Fanwort, also known as cabomba caroliniana, is an invasive species native to the southern United States, as well as...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■General Lafayette landed at New York on Monday of last week and left that city on Friday for Boston. The inhabitants of Northampton at a town meeting holden on last Monday, passed an order directing the selectmen to make suitable...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Ward 1 School Committeeman Russell W. Carrier is attending the 58th Annual Convention of the American Federation of Teachers in Toronto, Canada. Carrier is representing Local 484 of the Springfield Federation of Teachers, which is...

By JIM DANKO

SPRINGFIELD — When he’s teaching theater or English at Springfield Technical Community College, professor Phil O’Donoghue draws from his own experience as a student who struggled with a learning disability and battled anxiety in the classroom....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Four local boys completed their six-day swing-a-thon for the Jimmy Fund. The four boys, Michael Pekar, Timothy Naumowicz, Michael Naumowicz, and James Landry, stayed on MaineÕs Field all week in tents and swung in six-hour shifts, with...

By SAM FERLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Patrons can rest assured they will feel toasty in the morning for breakfast or lunch following the opening of a new restaurant in the location where a popular former restaurant used to operate.Toasted, the name of the new restaurant...