Returning Smith College students quarantining at hotels
Smith College students cross the central campus in Northampton. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Published: 1/26/2021 6:54:00 PM
NORTHAMPTON Smith students have started to arrive for the spring semester, but they aren’t staying on campus right away. Students will be quarantining at The Ellery hotel and Fairfield Inn and Suites while waiting for COVID-19 test results, a spokesperson for the college said in an email Tuesday.
The school is planning to have between 1,100 and 1,200 students on campus this spring semester.
“The college is using the hotels due to the state’s requirement that arriving students quarantine in single occupancy rooms with single bathrooms,” the spokesperson said. “Once clear of quarantine, students move into their on-campus housing.”
A Look Back
50 Years Ago
■While southern California beaches were being clogged yesterday during a 95-degree heat wave, most New Englanders were preparing for the third and coldest night of the year, as sub-zero readings again forced Granby schools to close, and left some Amherst residents staring in disbelief at thermometers registering 32 degrees below zero.
■The Mr. and Mrs. Club of St. Michael’s School is planning to hold its annual “Country Store” in March, under the direction of Mrs. Irving Guerin and Mrs. John Cycz, co-chairmen. “The Country Store” is the only big money-raising event held to obtain funds for both St. Michael’s Grammar and High Schools.
Shawn Palmer named publisher of Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder, Athol Daily News
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
NORTHAMPTON Newspapers of New England announced Friday that it has named Shawn Palmer as publisher of its Western Massachusetts publications: the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder, Athol Daily News, Amherst Bulletin and the Valley Advocate.
“I am incredibly honored to assume the leadership of these historic American daily newspapers,” Palmer, 53, said in a statement published Friday afternoon on the Gazette’s website. “For more than 200 years, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and, more recently, the Athol Daily News, have been vital institutions in the Pioneer Valley.”