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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 ■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■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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Northampton will submit a $15,000 matching grant application to the state’s Bicentennial Commission in hopes of funding a redesigned Pulaski Park. Planners hope that the enhanced park would invite more people to use it for various...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Reports of a general rise in the amount of vandalism against businesses and public buildings in Hampshire County appear to be unfounded, according to a Gazette survey. With some notable exceptions, most of the law enforcement and town...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■At the University of Massachusetts, the biggest local coal consumer, chief power plant engineer Edward R. Gilbert said today he expects “no trouble at all” from the United Mine Workers strike. While UMass uses 190 tons of coal a day to...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A Florence woman, educated at Northampton High School and at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital, is now serving as the director of critical care in the California hospital which is treating former President Richard Nixon. Connie Hamilton, 39,...

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...

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. —...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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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 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 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...