A Look Back: May 27

■Improvements to Pulaski Park, summer scene of rock concerts, will come under discussion at a special meeting to be held at the City Planning Department’s office Thursday. York Phillips, city planner, said a University of Massachusetts instructor, John Martin, and his class in landscape architecture, have designed three models of an improved park and these will be on display in his office.

■More than five months before November’s state-wide elections, both proponents and opponents of fluoridation of the city’s water supply are drawing battle lines for a referendum vote. Although Northampton’s voters had supported, by 54 votes, fluoridation in the fall 1973 elections, the vote was non-binding.

■Employees at Northampton Nursing Home learned this week that because of a tardy premium payment from their employer, their health insurance was abruptly canceled without notice. Since late last week, some workers of the Bridge Road nursing home who tried to visit their doctors or have prescriptions filled were told that their insurer, Kaiser-Permanente, had halted their benefits.

■Interviews with local people by the host of the “Roseanne Show” are to be broadcast Thursday afternoon – when one of the TVs tuned in will be that inside the Pride and Joy shop downtown. A crew from the show set up in the city several weeks ago and taped an eight-minute segment in which the host, Rosanne Barr, interviewed five area residents about lesbian and gay life.

■Southampton officials say a project to transform a stretch of rail bed into a rail trail is on track, although they have had to secure a one-year extension on a state grant because purchasing the land is taking longer than expected.

■Florence Savings Bank employee Jessica Young of Chicopee has been selected as a recipient of the bank’s President’s Award for 2014. Young, a senior teller at the Florence branch, joined the bank in 2011.