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50 Years Ago ■Two local men, working through national service organizations, are seeking to turn a portion of Chicopee’s Westover Air Force Base into a national cemetery. Joseph S. Demaradzki of Amherst and retired Army Col. William Foerster of Pelham...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The leading candidate for the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination said Saturday that he was giving “very serious consideration” to pushing Mayor Sean M. Dunphy for lieutenant governor. Attorney General Robert Quinn said anyone...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A Cessna 150 airplane crashed yesterday morning while practicing take-offs and landings at LaFleur airport, causing substantial damage to the plane but no injury to the pilot. Laurent LaFleur of the airport said this morning that the...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Two separate introductions to the technique of Transcendental Meditation will be offered in Northampton this week. TM is a technique of achieving a deep state of rest in a short period of time. ■Mrs. Russell Carpenter of Northampton has...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A picture of poverty and sub-poverty level living, and rising unemployment in Hampshire County, was outlined by a study released this week. The study shows almost 9% of the county’s population to be living at or below federal poverty...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■A proposal by the New England Farm Workers Council to use Smith Vocational and Agricultural School’s shop facilities to train Puerto Rican migrant workers in a marketable skill is under active study by the school’s board of trustees....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■E. Hunt wishes to lease out the yellow house near Licking-Water Bridge, possession given 1st May. He also wishes to hire for a year or six months, a young lad of 15 or 16. Lastly, he has for sale a one-horse wagon, for cash, credit or...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■There will be a meeting of the newly formed Emphysema Club Thursday at James House on Gothic Street. Persons having chronic lung conditions are welcome, as well as their family and friends. ■Black revolutionary leader Stokely Carmichael...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Neighbors to a proposed nursing home complained last night that the new building might worsen storm sewer problems, in a public hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals. The nursing home would occupy land between Federal Street and Elm...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The City Council has voted to close the Leeds fire station and some of the people in Leeds are hopping mad. Leeds residents say that some of the fire chief’s statements about the condition of the station are false, and insist that other...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Elinor Roberts, a senior at Northampton High School, has been chosen 1973 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow for Massachusetts. “I was totally surprised,” the new state homemaker said of receiving the award, which includes a $1,500...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■After an unusually mild winter, New England was recovering today from the second major storm of the week – one that caused power blackouts and school closings in the north and flooding in the south.■ It’s been more than a month since...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Spaghetti, macaroni, chicken and seafood topped the Sunday dinner menus for thousands of Americans on the opening day of a weeklong meat boycott protesting high prices. Most meat markets were closed on Sunday, so it was hard to judge...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Auction! Will be sold at auction at the house of Oliver Warner, innholder in Northampton, on Monday, the thirty-first inst., at two o’clock P.M., the homestead whereon Capt. William W. Partridge now lives. A credit of eight months will...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...