The Kollmorgen Corp.’s Northampton office on King Street has been awarded a $6,892,000 contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command. The contract is to provide periscope systems for the Trident submarine project and associated technical data and support.
The Postal Service is raising the cost of mailing a letter from 10 to 13 cents on Wednesday, three days after it originally planned to increase postal rates. The service announced the higher rates on Monday after the U.S. Court of Appeals cleared a legal barrier to the rate increase.
25 Years Ago
The Community Time Capsule organized by the Daily Hampshire Gazette is now on display in the window of the Faces store at 175 Main St. before it is “buried” until the year 2050. The display includes the copper capsule and some of the items to be put in it, as well as the full list of materials chosen to represent life in the Valley in the 1990s.
After selling their former lodge on Center Street this summer, members of the Elks Lodge are considering buying about eight acres in Florence as the site of a new home. Raymond Capers, a 31-year member of Elks BPO Lodge 997, said the lodge has a “gentleman’s agreement” with the owners of the Arts & Industry building at 221 Pine Street to purchase land at the corner of Pine and Spring streets, now the site of a parking lot.
10 Years Ago
As Northampton fell into a sound slumber Tuesday night, road crews were hard at work cleaning up after its first major snowfall of the season. Police ticketed around 75 vehicles. Of those cited, 67 vehicles were towed.
“Haiti Glass,” a collection of poetry by 35-year-old Northampton writer Lenelle Moise, has been named a winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. Moise, who was poet laureate of Northampton from 2010 to 2012, said she is thrilled to be ranked in the company of poets she really admires.