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By JIM BRIDGMAN
In a massive shakeup at the University of Massachusetts School of Education, Dean Dwight Allen has resigned, and Associate Dean Atron Gentry has been fired, the Gazette learned today. The resignation and dismissal come in the wake of several weeks of reports that funds at the School of Education may have been spent on purposes other than those for which they were intended.
By CHRIS LARABEE
DEERFIELD — The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association has begun a multiyear effort to bring to life a project exploring the experiences of Lucy Terry Prince, the earliest identified African American writer. The work began last Saturday on the first day of Black History Month.
By CAROLYN BROWN
One of the most prosperous individuals in early Southampton was Ichabod Strong, who dammed the Manhan River and established a sawmill there in the early 1730s; that mill complex, once known as the Strong’s Mills complex, now part of the Lockville Historic District. Strong, who was described in a genealogy book as “a man of stirring business qualities of character” and “best of all, a remarkably godly man,” also built four farmhouses in the area, which his sons and grandsons inherited. One of those farmhouses, part of the National Register of Historic Places, is on the market right now.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago■The Northampton National Bank became the first in the city to sell gold bullion to the public, following new regulations that allow United States citizens to own gold bullion for the first time in more than 30 years.■Ryback’s Pastry...
50 Years Ago■W. T. Grant Co., the giant retail chain, plans to close 66 unprofitable stores between February and July as a cost-cutting measure, the company said Friday. The Grant stores in Northampton and Easthampton will not be among those closed, a...
50 Years Ago■For Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Gay of 472 North King St., their new daughter Jill was not just another bundle of joy. Her birth as the first baby in the New Year locally will mean that the Gays will receive hundreds of dollars of gifts donated...
50 Years Ago■Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary is offering an alternative to sending used Christmas trees to the landfill where they take up needed disposal space. Instead, the sanctuary requests that residents recycle their trees by bringing them to Arcadia...
50 Years Ago ■Officials at Northampton State Hospital are still in the dark today as to whether seven foreign-trained physicians who have not passed the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates test will continue to be allowed to work here...
50 Years Ago■By 8:30 this morning more than 100 people were lined up, stretching around Pleasant and Armory Streets, waiting to sign up for unemployment checks. These were some of the 2,000 Hampshire County workers who have been temporarily or...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago■Demonstrating students at Hampshire College, a phenomenon long absent from the valley, forced the adjournment Saturday of a semi-annual college board of trustees meeting. The 120 demonstrators said they want more student control in the...
50 Years Ago
50 Years Ago■Donald Graham of Nonotuck Street, Florence, has been named Newspaper Boy of the Month. Don, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Graham, has been in the news delivering business for four years. He has 36 customers along Nonotuck, New Street and...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
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 ■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 MADISON SCHOFIELD
About a year into her tenure as the new Ashfield Historical Museum curator, Sky Suslov is making good progress on her goal of decolonizing the museum.In addition to the mock general store storefront, along with artifacts from wars throughout...
50 Years Ago■Converting Northampton High School from a three-year to a four-year high school, as the Northampton School Committee recommended last night, is likely to be a good change, according to high school principal John J. Feeney. “Any secondary...
50 Years Ago■Converting Northampton High School from a three-year to a four-year high school, as the Northampton School Committee recommended last night, is likely to be a good change, according to high school principal John J. Feeney. “Any secondary...
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 CONNOR PIGNATELLO
NORTHAMPTON — Packed in a small room in the upstairs of a Northampton house, millions of words reside.About 2,500 books, to be exact — and they’re all about baseball. Biographies, statistical annuals, magazines, instructional manuals, encyclopedias...
200 Years Ago ■Apple Tree Nursery! E. Hunt has for sale in Northampton two hundred apple trees comprising the following kinds: Greenings, Royals, Roxbury Russettings, Summer and Winter Pearmains, Baldwin, Newtown Pippins, Seek-No-Furthers, Golden...
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