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A Look Back, Oct. 22
10-22-2024 6:00 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton School Committee last night voted to support a school building program that will change the structure of education in the city by converting the high school to a four-year school and add middle schools in place of present...

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A Look Back, Nov. 4
11-03-2024 11:01 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The mood at Amherst College in the wake of college trustees’ decision Saturday to “go coeducational” is one of subdued elation, though some are pessimistic and an adverse reaction from alumni is expected. “I felt emotionally empty, sort...


A Look Back: Nov. 2, 2024
11-01-2024 11:01 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago■Notice! Elihu Peirce, an indented servant, bound by the overseers of the poor in Hadley to the subscriber for one year, has left his service. This is to forbid all persons from harboring or employing said Peirce, on penalty of the law. —...


A Look Back, Oct. 21
10-21-2024 6:00 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Members of Providence United Methodist Church in Easthampton voted decisively in favor of merging with the First United Methodist Church of Northampton on Sunday. Details of the merger will be worked out by the two churches. The...


A Look Back, Oct. 18
10-17-2024 11:00 PM

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...


A Look Back, Oct. 14
10-13-2024 11:00 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The Massachusetts Organization to Repeal Abortion Laws (MORAL) is sponsoring an effort in Hampshire County to organize residents in defense of safe, legal, elective abortion. The local effort will be coordinated by Betsy Guthrie and...


A Look Back, Oct. 7
10-06-2024 11:01 AM

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...


A Look Back, Sept. 28
09-27-2024 11:01 PM

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;...


A Look Back, Sept. 23
09-22-2024 11:01 PM

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...


A Look Back, Sept. 17
09-16-2024 11:31 PM

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...


A Look Back, Sept. 14
09-13-2024 11:01 PM

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...


A Look Back, Sept. 12
09-11-2024 11:44 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Richard C. Carnes, chairman of the Northampton Conservation Commission, announced today that the commission has discussed using railroad rights-of-way as bike paths in the city. Carnes said a meeting would be scheduled soon with the...


A Look Back, Sept. 7
09-06-2024 11:01 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Gen. La Fayette arrived in Hartford on Saturday about 11 o’clock, A.M., where he was most cordially received by the civil authorities, the military, and an immense concourse of people. At half-past three, P.M., he went on board the...


A Look Back, Sept. 3
09-03-2024 6:01 AM

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...


A Look Back, Sept. 2
09-01-2024 11:00 PM

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,...


A Look Back, Aug. 31
08-30-2024 11:00 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■David Judd, being appointed agent for the Hartford Marble Yard, respectfully informs the citizens of Northampton and its vicinity that he will furnish stones of the different sizes and qualities on short notice. A specimen of the stone...


A Look Back, Aug. 24
08-23-2024 2:59 PM

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...


A Look Back: Aug. 19, 2024
08-18-2024 4:01 PM

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...


A Look Back, Aug. 15
08-14-2024 11:01 PM

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...


A Look Back, Aug. 10
08-09-2024 11:01 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■On Aug. 3, lightning struck a tree near the house of Mr. Daniel Kellogg, on South Street in Hadley, and passed from the tree to the house, which it entered near a corner post, and then descended upon a clock which it broke to shivers....


A Look Back, Aug. 8
08-07-2024 1:09 PM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The historical commission last night began plans to make certain areas of Northampton into historical districts. Under the plan, historical districts would be intended to remain unchanged, with no new building or renovation unless the...

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