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By JIM BRIDGMAN

A Northampton banker, William A. Burke, was elected president of the board of directors of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Burke, consultant at the Pioneer National Bank, was elected at the chamber’s annual meeting, held during a luncheon at the Hotel Northampton.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Twenty-four employees at Pro Brush Division, Vistron Corp. were notified this week that today is their last day at work there for an indefinite period. The figure brings to 146 the number of fulltime employees who have been laid off since the plant began a trial cutback Dec. 1, personnel manager Charles Gaudry said today.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Two students from Hawley Junior High School have been selected to perform in the 17th Annual Western District Concert Festival of the Massachusetts Music Educators’ Association. The students are Patrick Sheehan and Patricia Tyler....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers of Northeast Utilities will be paying 19.2 percent less in the fuel charge on their electric bills in January than in December. The main reason for the reduction is the return to service Nov....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton National Bank became the first in the city to sell gold bullion to the public, following new regulations that allow United States citizens to own gold bullion for the first time in more than 30 years.■Ryback’s Pastry...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Gerald Newell has sold the Vermont Store on Main Street to Neil A. Soutra, owner of Dwyers’ Florists, located two doors down from the Vermont Store, and his wife, Marion. The sale marks the end of 31 years on Main Street for Newell, one...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■On Monday evening the dwelling house and shop of Mr. Hosea Goodale of Amherst were destroyed by fire, with 200 chairs and many other articles. Most of the furniture in the house was saved.■Died in Northampton on Sunday last, Daniel...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Judith J. Golub of Northampton has been appointed director of medical nursing service at the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts in Springfield. Mrs. Golub will have full responsibility for the patients and staff in one of the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■By 8:30 this morning more than 100 people were lined up, stretching around Pleasant and Armory Streets, waiting to sign up for unemployment checks. These were some of the 2,000 Hampshire County workers who have been temporarily or...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago■Jonathan Smith, agent, respectfully informs the inhabitants of Northampton and vicinity that he has taken the shop opposite the house of the Hon. Samuel Hinckley, where he will keep constantly on hand a complete assortment of school and...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Demonstrating students at Hampshire College, a phenomenon long absent from the valley, forced the adjournment Saturday of a semi-annual college board of trustees meeting. The 120 demonstrators said they want more student control in the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Strayed from the meadows in Northampton, near the middle of Nov., a bay horse, about 12 years old — ears cut off close to his head — one white hind foot. Whoever will return said horse to Oliver Warner’s tavern in Northampton, or...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Lucy Wilson Benson, who has been named Secretary of Human Services by governor-elect Michael S. Dukakis, suggested today she would give up the state post if she is not driven to and from the Boston job daily in a state-owned vehicle....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago■Whereas my wife Rhoda and I cannot agree to live together, this is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her, or any of her kindred, on my account, for I shall pay no debts of their contracting. Brewer Ball, Chesterfield.■John and...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The Northampton National Bank and Bradlees Department Store will become the first two outlets in Northampton to sell food stamps, with stamp sales beginning this month. Northampton National was one of four banks visited by 25 protesters...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The new 16-member Pleasant-River Urban Development Steering Committee will determine proposals and guidelines in the city’s urban renewal project which will shape for many years “the character and quality of life” of Northampton’s...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A petition bearing some 500 signatures and protesting the closing of the Northampton State Hospital geriatric unit was sent Friday to several state officials, including Gov. Francis W. Sargent. The petitioners “strongly oppose the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■The Boston & Northampton Stage, by way of Bolton, Lancaster, Sterling, Princeton, Barre, and Amherst, leaves Boston every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 7 o’clock A.M., and arrives in Northampton at 2 o’clock, P.M. The stage leaves...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Teenage drinking, sanctioned by the reduction in the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 in March 1973, has reached problem proportions in Hampshire County. “Alcohol is the number one drug problem on campus,” reported Bob McCarthy, a young...