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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...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■Richard C. Carnes, chairman of the Northampton Conservation Commission, announced today that the commission has discussed using railroad rights-of-way as bike paths in the city. Carnes said a meeting would be scheduled soon with the...

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200 Years Ago ■Gen. La Fayette arrived in Hartford on Saturday about 11 o’clock, A.M., where he was most cordially received by the civil authorities, the military, and an immense concourse of people. At half-past three, P.M., he went on board the...

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50 Years Ago ■Today is children’s day at the Three County Fair but they’ll have a hard time equaling the number of children and adults who attended the fair Labor Day weekend. A total of 35,706 paid their way into the 157th annual Three County Fair...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Bus service for Hampton Gardens children attending Vernon Street School will not be provided despite threats by Hampton Garden parents of a school boycott. Mayor Sean M. Dunphy, chairman ex officio of the Northampton School Committee,...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■David Judd, being appointed agent for the Hartford Marble Yard, respectfully informs the citizens of Northampton and its vicinity that he will furnish stones of the different sizes and qualities on short notice. A specimen of the stone...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■General Lafayette landed at New York on Monday of last week and left that city on Friday for Boston. The inhabitants of Northampton at a town meeting holden on last Monday, passed an order directing the selectmen to make suitable...

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50 Years Ago ■Ward 1 School Committeeman Russell W. Carrier is attending the 58th Annual Convention of the American Federation of Teachers in Toronto, Canada. Carrier is representing Local 484 of the Springfield Federation of Teachers, which is...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■Four local boys completed their six-day swing-a-thon for the Jimmy Fund. The four boys, Michael Pekar, Timothy Naumowicz, Michael Naumowicz, and James Landry, stayed on MaineÕs Field all week in tents and swung in six-hour shifts, with...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■On Aug. 3, lightning struck a tree near the house of Mr. Daniel Kellogg, on South Street in Hadley, and passed from the tree to the house, which it entered near a corner post, and then descended upon a clock which it broke to shivers....

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The historical commission last night began plans to make certain areas of Northampton into historical districts. Under the plan, historical districts would be intended to remain unchanged, with no new building or renovation unless the...

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50 Years Ago ■Kimball and Cary Fuel Corp, Northampton’s oldest fuel company, has achieved the distinction of being the only retail fuel company in the country to accomplish its paperwork through a computer on the premises. The system is complete in...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■Mr. A. S. Bugbee will commence the second quarter of his Select School on Tuesday next. Correct spelling, good pronunciation, graceful reading, business-hand writing, and a good, practical knowledge of numbers are indispensably...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago■A formal application for a construction permit was filed yesterday with the federal government to build a $1.52 billion nuclear generating plant in Montague. The application, filed by Northeast Utilities, indicates that the proposed...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago■The Boston & Albany mail stage will run in the following manner: leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 2 o’clock A.M.; arrive at Northampton same days at 8 o’clock, P.M.; leave Northampton every Tuesday, Thursday and...

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50 Years Ago■Plans for the 77-unit Tinkham Woods subdivision on Westhampton Road were approved unanimously last night in a vote of the Northampton Planning Board. The board’s decision was made with the knowledge that many Northampton residents were...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

50 Years Ago ■The 16-year-old “perfect master” Guru Maharj Ji told 11,000 of his followers in Amherst Saturday that “there is nothing more to say; it has all been said already.” Many of the devotees, gathered on a field at the University of...

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200 Years Ago ■The anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was celebrated in Northampton on Monday. An audience, collected without reference to party or political feeling, assembled at the Meeting House, where, besides the usual religious...