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50 Years Ago A suit has been filed in U.S. District Court in Boston by a local attorney that would allow, if successful, some residents of the Belchertown State School...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Miss C. M. Snow proposes to open a School for Young Ladies, in a central situation on Pleasant Street, for the instruction of young ladies in the following branches of education: reading, writing, English grammar, geography, rhetoric,...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Skiing, 1973, was a disaster for ski slope operators with the two in the Greater Northampton area reporting the earliest closing in years and receipts off considerably from last year. The unusual winter that saw only two major snowstorms...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The Electro-Optical division of the Kollmorgen Corp. in Northampton has been awarded its “largest single contract in recent years,” according to president Herbert E. Torberg. The $17,834,000 contract, awarded by the Naval Ship Systems...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The March meeting of the Ryan Road Parent-Teacher Organization will be held Tuesday. The guest speaker for the evening will be John Bresnahan, chair of the foreign language department for the Northampton school system. His subject will...

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200 Years Ago ■Dr. Estes Howe of Belchertown killed on the 5th inst. a steer three years and two days old which weighed when dressed eleven hundred and thirty pounds. It was raised from a calf upon his farm and was tended and fattened by Mr. Pliny...

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50 Years Ago ■City conservationists voiced their opposition at a Planning Board meeting last night to a proposed camping ground at the OxBow. Richard Carnes, chair of the Conservation Commission, spoke adamantly against a proposed OxBow camping...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Six voluntary probation officers were appointed to the Hampshire County District Court staff Tuesday by presiding Justice Luke F. Ryan. Two of the new appointees have already begun their duties. They are William P. Nagle of 3 Madison...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■A former Northampton High School student is on his way to Northern Ireland where he hopes to interview leaders of all factions of the religious warfare there and get their reaction to the British government’s white paper on Northern...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Easthampton High School has won the Fay-Wright Division of the Western Massachusetts High School Hockey League. The Eagles defeated Holyoke, 4-1, last night to win the championship by two points over Longmeadow. ■A 34-day, 375-mile walk...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton Historical Society will be the topic of discussion tonight when the radio program series “Forward Northampton” is presented on WHMP. Mrs. Richard Holden and Dr. and Mrs. Keith Wilbur, all members of the board of directors...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Stanley G. Kostek, Mrs. Margaret C. Dwyer, Joseph Cummings and Michael Kostek were winners yesterday in major Hadley town election contests. A total of 1,269 voters went to the polls from an eligibility list of about 2,400. Counters and...

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50 Years Ago ■U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Raymond F. Matusko, son of Mrs. Mary J. Matusko of Williams Street, has arrived for duty at Ubon Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Sgt. Matusko is an aircraft maintenance technician. He attended Smith’s Vocational High...

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50 Years Ago■Christopher B. Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Fuller, 310 Elm St., has been named president of Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co. Inc., according to Victor A. Bonomo, president of Pepsi-Cola Co. Fuller graduated from Northampton High...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Vincent E. Busone, personnel director at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Leeds, will never forget his coffee break which he took one day this week. He was sitting in the hospital canteen when he leafed through the pages of the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■A former city resident, Air Force Capt. James Cutter, will be one of the first Americans to leave a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam. His grandmother, Mrs. Mary B.D. Cutter of 211 Elm St., said that Cutter’s parents have received...

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50 Years Ago■Bids received for the construction of an addition to the Ryan Road Elementary School were all below the estimated cost for the project, according to Peter DeRose, chairman of the building committee. The contract was awarded to Aquadro and...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The mayor of Northampton’s sister city in England has suggested that the two communities might like to become “twins” as well. Cities which are twinned organize exchanges of civic leaders, sports teams and vacationing schoolchildren, said...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The Massachusetts State Championship Snowmobile Races will be the central attraction of Northampton’s first annual winter festival the weekend of Feb. 8. Mayor Sean M. Dunphy will launch the festival on Thursday, the first day of the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Northampton’s first application for preferential tax treatment for a developer building in a “blighted, open, decadent, or substandard area” was taken under advisement by the Planning Board Thursday. The developers, Harold G. Lash and...