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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 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 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....

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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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50 Years Ago ■Kimball and Cary Fuel Corp, Northampton’s oldest fuel company, has achieved the distinction of being the only retail fuel company in the country to accomplish its paperwork through a computer on the premises. The system is complete in...

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200 Years Ago ■Mr. A. S. Bugbee will commence the second quarter of his Select School on Tuesday next. Correct spelling, good pronunciation, graceful reading, business-hand writing, and a good, practical knowledge of numbers are indispensably...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■A formal application for a construction permit was filed yesterday with the federal government to build a $1.52 billion nuclear generating plant in Montague. The application, filed by Northeast Utilities, indicates that the proposed...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago■The Boston & Albany mail stage will run in the following manner: leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 2 o’clock A.M.; arrive at Northampton same days at 8 o’clock, P.M.; leave Northampton every Tuesday, Thursday and...

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50 Years Ago■Plans for the 77-unit Tinkham Woods subdivision on Westhampton Road were approved unanimously last night in a vote of the Northampton Planning Board. The board’s decision was made with the knowledge that many Northampton residents were...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The 16-year-old “perfect master” Guru Maharj Ji told 11,000 of his followers in Amherst Saturday that “there is nothing more to say; it has all been said already.” Many of the devotees, gathered on a field at the University of...

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200 Years Ago ■The anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was celebrated in Northampton on Monday. An audience, collected without reference to party or political feeling, assembled at the Meeting House, where, besides the usual religious...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Forty members of the First United Methodist Church of Northampton voted unanimously last night to sell the church property at 90 Elm St. to Smith College for the sum of $200,000. A spokesman for the college said Smith has “no immediate...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The coordinator of career education in Northampton schools, Carl Thor, has been invited to serve as a consultant to the department of Health Education and Welfare as “one of 250 outstanding career education practitioners in the United...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■The washing for the Round Hill School from July 1 to Oct. 1, of the present year, will be let out by contract; persons disposed to take the same are requested to apply at the Hill immediately. Wanted, as above, for the same period, 40...

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50 Years Ago■Improvements to Pulaski Park, summer scene of rock concerts, will come under discussion at a special meeting to be held at the City Planning Department’s office Thursday. York Phillips, city planner, said a University of Massachusetts...

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200 Years Ago■Joseph Fenno has opened a new grocery and flour store in the southeast room of Curtis’ Hotel in Northampton. He has received and offers for sale a general assortment of groceries, such as liquors, teas, spices, fruit, loaf and brown...

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200 Years Ago ■An enumeration of the inhabitants of Northampton has been recently made, under the direction of the selectmen, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of rateable polls, children in the several school districts, persons not...

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50 Years Ago ■Three Holyoke youths were rescued from falling off a moving Boston and Maine freight train last night by Northampton policeman Gerald L. LeVitre. The youths had boarded the train in the freight yards in Holyoke and had hung onto the...

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50 Years Ago ■Preservation Week, a nationally celebrated event sponsored by historic preservation groups, will be observed in Northampton by an inventory of buildings and a tour of historic downtown sites. The Northampton Historical Commission will...