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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...

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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...

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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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Officials of the merged Northampton School for Girls and Williston Academy of Easthampton are “reasonably pleased” about proposed plans for an interim rental of the property next month by local mental health officials. State purchase of...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Two or three men who apparently “knew what they were doing,” according to one employee of Forbes-Snyder Office Products, flipped an 800-pound safe end over end from the store to railroad tracks 50 yards away, police said late this...

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50 Years Ago■A day treatment center for mentally disturbed adults could become a reality in Northampton during February if federal funds are approved. The center would serve both people released from mental health institutions and potential candidates...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■In Hampshire County, the likelihood of finding a married woman at home during the daytime is slimmer than ever. According to the latest statistics, 46.8 percent of the married women in Hampshire County are in the labor force. This...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■The Northampton Post Office, at the corner of Pleasant and Armory streets for almost 70 years, will probably be relocated within the next 18 months. The Postal Service is reportedly investigating the possibility of moving the post office...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Autopsy work continues on two Look Park deer who died earlier this month of undetermined causes. Doctors at Page Laboratory on the University of Massachusetts campus said further study will be required to find the cause of death of a...