• Chicopee Web site earns openness award
CHICOPEE - Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette announced that the city received the Common Cause e-Government Award with Distinction for open government on March 16 at the State House for the Web site www.chic opeema.gov

• Dinner to benefit scholarship funds
CHICOPEE - The city's Parent Teacher Organization will hold its first John L. Fitzpatrick Scholarship fund-raiser on Friday.

• Life lessons taught on the river of time
This evening at the Bellamy House, Jacqueline Lynch, historian and feature writer will be the guest speaker at the March meeting of the Chicopee Historical Society, and as always there is no charge.

• March model show marks 20th anniversary
CHICOPEE - VALLEYCON 20, Wings & Wheels Modelers, IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) will mark its 20th anniversary on March 28 with a show at the Knights of Columbus, 460 Granby Road.

• Old and new tools beneficial
Hopefully many of you have seen the first two episodes of the new NBC series "Who Do You Think You Are?"

• Some answers to really big questions
Where in the world are we, and how did we get here? These may seem like morning-after kinds of questions, but they are in fact fundamental to all scientific inquiry.

• Sy Becker to receive Shamrock honor
CHICOPEE - The Shamrock Club of the Chicopee Fire Department has announced its honorary Shamrock's and Best Crowd winners.

• Testing older drivers needs careful study
If you can remember Pearl Harbor but not where you left the car keys, you may be eligible to enter a new contest devised by our our tireless state lawmakers to keep our roads safe and at the same time show they're not just sitting around collecting benefits.