A Look Back, Oct. 28

50 Years Ago

■Members of the Sixth Massachusetts Continental Infantry Regiment, a Hampshire County group modeled on a real unit that fought in the Revolutionary War, visited the Jackson Street School last week to show the children in Mrs. Sheehan’s fourth grade class their colonial regalia. The soldiers fired the unit’s cannon.

■Over 100 young trees will be planted along city streets within the next month, and an inventory of all trees on city property will be completed by next September. The trees, which were raised by students at Smith’s Vocational High School, represent the first results of a project which began three years ago, and which is about three years ahead of schedule.

25 Years Ago

■Mary Clare Higgins and Tony Long Tuesday night showed the stark choice before voters in Tuesday’s mayoral election. Long stressed his intention to provide “fiscal responsibility” and spent much of his time criticizing his opponent. Higgins said she hopes to provide leadership on a number of issues, including public schools, jobs creation, and preserving the city’s character.

■University of Massachusetts professors, concerned about the unauthorized sale of lecture notes for posting on the Internet, are taking a stand against this growing form of electronic commerce. The executive board of the Massachusetts Society of Professors has agreed to pursue a policy that would allow professors to copyright their lecture notes, prohibiting the sale of unauthorized notes.

10 Years Ago

■The Easthampton Housing Authority will have its third executive director in the past two years when a veteran property manager takes the post on Monday. The housing authority’s board hired Deborah Walker of Holyoke earlier this month to oversee its 188 housing units at five locations in the city.

■A new, 85-bed assisted living facility off Haydenville Road in Leeds will officially open Thursday under the Linda Manor umbrella. Chakalos Investments Inc. invested $15.8 million to build Linda Manor Assisted Living, a three-story facility on a 10.5-acre site just south of the existing Linda Manor Extended Care Facility.